2021-2-10 12:48 |
The Southampton FC matchday rights acquired by Sportsbet could be put to use even amid the COVID-19 lockdown — with the help of Bitcoin and virtual reality. origin »
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TPX Network aims to change the money transfer business. We will do this by leveraging blockchain technology and applying it to the online remittance business. Our app will give the customers the choice of using either fiat money or cryptocurrency to fund their transfers, cash out or even use payment cards.
2018-7-23 15:47 | |
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The Liverpool City Council is looking to become the world’s first climate positive city by the end of 2020 after agreeing to a partnership with an eco-digital company to integrate its blockchain-powered platform into daily operations.
2018-7-23 04:55 | |
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Special thanks to Eli ben Sasson for his kind assistance, as usual. Special thanks to Chih-Cheng Liang and Justin Drake for review. Trigger warning: math and lots of python div. foo { color: white; } div.
2018-7-22 04:03 | |
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Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Although the ideas behind the current Ethereum protocol have largely been stable for two years, Ethereum did not emerge all at once, in its current conception and fully formed. Before the blockchain has launched, the protocol went through a number of significant evolutions and design decisions.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help and explanations, and Justin Drake for reviewing In the last part of this series, we talked about how you can make some pretty interesting succinct proofs of computation, such as proving that you have computed the millionth Fibonacci number, using a technique involving polynomial composition and division.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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One kind of token model that has become popular among many recent token sale projects is the “network medium of exchange token”. The general pitch for this kind of token goes as follows. We, the developers, build a network, and this network allows you to do new cool stuff.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Blockchain Can Keep Online Auctions Fair According To Financial Exchange Everyone knows that China does not love cryptocurrencies, but the blockchain technology stands on its own and even if you are like China and you do not see Bitcoin in a positive light, there is still a use case for blockchain tech. Recently, a financial […]
2018-7-21 01:44 | |
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Hundreds of companies are exploring use cases within the blockchain industry. It is evident there are a lot of potential use cases to explore, even though very few of them will impact the real world.
2018-7-20 20:00 | |
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Scaling has been a heated topic for the bitcoin community for some time. Further, even when a technology does become available, getting people to use it becomes the next big hurdle.
2018-7-20 17:33 | |
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Trigo Vision, an AI startup founded by former members of the Israeli army’s special forces and intelligence community, just came out of stealth mode with a target in its sights: Amazon’s Go store.
2018-7-19 00:30 | |
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Coinfloor, a cryptocurrency exchange that operates multiple subsidiary exchanges, is joining hands with Trading Technologies International, Inc. , a leading trading software provider.
2018-7-19 22:24 | |
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Mastercard have applied for a new blockchain patent. Yep – another one. Is there a limit to how many patents you can apply for in one year? The document outlines its particular goal: quickening merchant transactions that use cryptocurrencies.
2018-7-18 13:19 | |
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Stronghold, a cryptocurrency trading platform housed by Stellar, is launching a stablecoin on its parent network’s blockchain in collaboration with IBM. Stronghold USD will be backed with “one-to-one U.
2018-7-18 22:00 | |
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As a rapidly growing business sector, e-commerce continues to open up new avenues for exploring, comparing and purchasing products worldwide. Spl. yt, a smart contract protocol, aims improve the e-commerce system for buyers and sellers by automating functions currently performed by “middlemen” marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba.
2018-7-16 19:45 | |
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Sports collectibles have always had a large market, even outside of cryptocurrency. Now, Major League Baseball (MLB) is preparing for an overhaul of the traditional market. The sports league announced that it has tied up with blockchain gaming company Lucid Sight.
2018-7-16 09:00 | |
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The use of crypto donations by a Venezuelan citizen has shown cryptocurrencies are better than some fiat currencies even though they have been dismissed as too volatile. These donations also highlight the changing perception of crypto away from its murky past on the dark net.
2018-7-15 14:00 | |
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Bitcoin, in its nine years of existence, has steadily gained traction, defining itself as a new digital gold. Early adopters of this technology have shown excitement for the potential of this inflation-proof sound money.
2018-7-14 00:48 | |
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Even though the mass media platforms that we use today are more decentralized than the ones available before, it is worth noting that most of today’s web services are built atop protocols, services, and other tools that are susceptible to centralized control, surveillance, and manipulation.
2018-7-13 16:00 | |
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They say that in an apocalypse, during the crash of the financial system, humans may turn to items like bottle caps for currency. I do wonder why bottle caps would be the chosen item but I guess that they are easily accessible as a result of our questionable drinking habits, right? Joking aside, we want to explore how cryptocurrency could come into its own during times of crisis.
2018-7-13 12:00 | |
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Blockchain technology has taken the online sphere by storm. Revolutionizing the traditional financial system by enabling instant and anonymous transactions of capital, it has forced us to rethink our views on money; its physical manifestation, how we use it, trade it, and even the role it plays in our wider world. If there is one […]
2018-7-13 08:20 | |
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As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name.
2018-7-13 17:16 | |
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APIs are omnipresent in today’s financial ecosystem, and yet most people don’t even realize when they’re using one. The recent “irregular” trading incident at Binance has been attributed to malicious API use — and has brought a timely focus to this integral technology.
2018-7-11 06:33 | |
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Providing Cryptocurrency to Friends, Family, and Business Associates with Email PayPal provided an innovative way for consumers to send money across accounts with the use of just an email address. No wallet numbers were needed, and the user did not even need to have an account with PayPal at all. Instead, the website would just […]
2018-7-9 19:44 | |
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CTO of CoinBase, Balaji S. Srinivasan, and co-founder of Counsyl, as well as Teleport, Earn and CoinCenter released a tweet on his response to the Bank of International Settlements’ extreme warnings on cryptocurrency trading, even stating that digital commerce will bring the internet crashing to a halt. He responded to the group’s tweet warning, saying, […]
2018-7-9 11:03 | |
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Cryptocurrency Visa cards promise to help inject the notion of crypto adoption into the mainstream. These sorts of projects are important because the essence of a Visa card is that it is a habit forming product, a product that is so embedded into our lives, we hardly even recognise it.
2018-7-6 12:30 | |
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Considering that the number of mobile subscribers has already surpassed the number of people on the planet, we would be remiss to not use the free memory of gadgets to earn money. This is just the opportunity that Module offers, and this solution could bring a huge number of new users who never even thought
2018-7-5 23:01 | |
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Even if blockchain fatigue may have set in among bankers, there’s at least one use case they’re still clearly excited about: trade finance. But one refreshing aspect of a largely paper-based system like trade finance is that there’s less in the way of creaking architecture.
2018-7-3 13:56 | |
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The EU’s Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies released a report entitled “Virtual currencies and central banks monetary policy: challenges ahead.
2018-7-3 23:28 | |
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The Ethereum cryptocurrency has attained a new level of financial value, ranking as the second highest cryptographic currency in the world, becoming one of the most widespread and commonly used tokens amongst the entire crypto-industry.
2018-6-30 23:30 | |
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On June 14, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) director of corporate finance made waves in the cryptocurrency space when he commented at Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit: Crypto that ether is not a security.
2018-7-3 23:16 | |
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Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away.
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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A New Solution For Bitcoin Tracking Across Exchanges Wednesday June 27, 2018 – Before today, checking on Bitcoin prices is somewhat of a vexing thing. Finding prices can mean venturing to a lot of different websites.
2018-6-28 15:41 | |
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Andreessen Horowitz is set for an even deeper foray into the cryptocurrency market. The Silicon Valley Venture Capital (VC) firm recently announced the launch of a $300 million cryptocurrency fund.
2018-6-27 22:00 | |
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As Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies gain traction with public awareness and societal usage, the incentive to mine coins gets larger and larger. Even with bitcoin in a bear market mining continues to grow in popularity.
2018-6-22 00:07 | |
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2018, once expected to be a bullish year, has turned into a slow burn of agony for most. Especially if one gained interest in and started accumulating in January of this year. Our hearts go out to the investors who hopefully stick around to see future run-ups in the years to come.
2018-6-20 09:00 | |
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Within minutes of rumors spreading regarding the SEC’s classification of both bitcoin and ether, the entire crypto market breathed a sigh of relief as everyone enjoyed a nice bounce.
2018-6-16 00:23 | |
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Jeff Garzik first tuned the world into his latest venture in the fall of 2017. The Bloq co-founder unveiled Metronome (MET), a cryptocurrency he founded alongside Matthew Roszak, at the Las Vegas Money 20/20 conference in late October, and the project caught the attention of Bloomberg and Fortune at the time.
2018-6-16 23:51 | |
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Over the past ten months, the Bitcoin Cash network has received a lot of support from cryptocurrency companies that provide infrastructure support including exchanges. Even though other digital currencies have yet to obtain such success in so little time, some BCH proponents are in search for an exchange that uses bitcoin cash as the base […] The post A Look at a Few Exchanges That Use Bitcoin Cash as a Base Currency appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-6-15 01:52 | |
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All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name.
2018-6-15 23:31 | |
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© eGenesis An even more significant early game was Huntercoin, another MMORPG first emerging as a prototype in September 2013. Like the games that came before and after them, these titles were all ‘free-to-play’, although most offered in-app purchases.
2018-6-12 18:34 | |
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Shopin — a universal shopper profile that delivers personal shopping experiences through retailers’ apps, websites and stores — says one of its token distributors has been hacked and roughly $10 million in a variety of cryptocurrencies has been stolen.
2018-6-11 01:22 | |
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Venmo could be the ultimate cryptocurrency experience from a user-experience perspective. Any cryptocurrency that seeks to power the future of global transactions must ensure that it is supported by a payment system that is simple, user-friendly and free — like Venmo.
2018-6-11 16:51 | |
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The cryptocommunity is concerned about the acquisition of the popular Github repository by Microsoft. One of the bitcoin developers even called to reject the use of the repository.
2018-6-11 20:59 | |
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Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s new book, Radical Markets, which could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called “political economy” - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect.
2018-7-21 04:03 | |
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The Chinese-based company, Telco, has proposed a new digital ID system for bringing China into the metaverse. Telco’s proposal aims to bring all Chinese citizens into the metaverse using their ID metaverse system.
FIFA, the international governing body of soccer, has submitted trademark applications regarding the metaverse as part of its "WE ARE" initiative.
Cryptocurrency's virtual reality sector has surged by almost 8% over the past 24 hours as investors anticipate Apple's VR headset reveal on Monday.
Zuckerberg expects Reality Labs operating losses to increase year-over-year in 2023.
While digital events and spaces have become increasingly common over the last few years, is digital reality the right place for all types of gatherings, such as court proceedings?
Apple’s rumored VR headset launch appeared to fuel a sharp rally in metaverse tokens, but data suggests that the momentum is unsustainable.
E-verse sets the pace for Metaverse events as the Blockchain startup launches the first-ever Metaverse concert.