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Schwartz has clarified that the code is "really rough" for now origin »
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A faulty smart contract cost the Akutars NFT project $35 million. When is code really law?
2022-4-26 22:49 | |
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“Now with Ethereum changing, Bitcoin really is the outlier. Some of the newer protocols, Solana and Cardano are built on low energy,” the XRP creator told Bloomberg.
2022-3-30 01:41 | |
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Blockchain is an extraordinary technology, But It has both side of coins, We all know the benefits of Blockchain, Lets talk about problems associated with this wonderful tech. Maturity A lot of the code that’s running blockchains, especially for the newer fabrics that exist, is really, really new.
2020-2-19 22:00 | |
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If there exists one moral code that can be shared and agreed by almost all cultures and religions, then it must be the concept of “never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself”.
2019-7-25 17:32 | |
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Let’s start this Cosmos code review with a look at the claims. Well, just this one really, because it’s kind of a biggie. “Cosmos solves today’s hardest blockchain problems.” Scalability — Tendermint BFT fixes this Usability — Cosmos SDK fixes this Interoperability — IBC protocol fixes this Only three items, but a lot to unpack […] The post Cosmos Code Review: Dammit, Time To Build appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-6-10 17:00 | |
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By CCN: Button Wallet is slated to be one of the first decentralized applications to launch on Telegram’s new blockchain, Telegram Open Network (TON). The secretive project recently opened to beta development, and Button published a blog post detailing how it works currently.
2019-5-28 23:30 | |
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“It worked in staging!” says the dev team. And the ops team replies: “it must be a code issue. ” Developers and ops people sometimes have different perspectives on why a deployment went wrong.
2019-5-22 13:13 | |
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Trigger warning: specialized mathematical topic Special thanks to Karl Floersch for feedback One of the more interesting algorithms in number theory is the Fast Fourier transform (FFT).
2019-5-14 04:03 | |
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The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When large-scale social networking platforms first became popular in the 2000s, the general attitude toward mass data collection was essentially “why not?”.
2019-5-11 04:03 | |
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
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Stack Overflow today released the results of its 2019 Developer Survey. The report highlights trends across a sample of 90,000 developers, located around the world, and focuses on a variety of subjects, including education, job satisfaction, and preferred technological stack.
2019-4-9 16:20 | |
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This infographic provides a schematic overview of the main Bitcoin-related “forks” that can happen and shows the most important forks that have happened. It does not provide an overview of all forks that have happened.
2019-4-8 18:08 | |
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Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
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GitHub activity is a telling metric when analyzing liveliness of crypto projects. After all, if the devs don’t work on the promised product, nothing else really matters. GitHub activity refers to the contributions of developers to open-source projects on the popular code repository GitHub.
2019-3-22 02:30 | |
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Google rolled out Android Q‘s first beta version for all Pixel phones last night. I’ve installed it on my Pixel 3 XL, and found some really neat features. One of the best new additions is how easy it is to share your WiFi settings.
2019-3-14 13:01 | |
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JavaScript is essential for anyone looking to understand how the web really works, so get down and dirty with the glue that holds the internet together with the Essential JavaScript Coding Bundle ($11.
2019-3-1 17:00 | |
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Ember. js is a hugely popular JavaScript framework. Used across web, mobile, and desktop, it powers the likes of LinkedIn, Groupon, and even Apple Music. Behind its thousands of lines of code is a deeply human story of innovation and risk-taking, as portrayed by Ember.
2019-2-20 19:40 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-9 23:59 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-12 23:59 | |
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Bitcoin users may, before long, be able to benefit from a trick called “Taproot. ” First proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor and former Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell, Taproot would expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy in doing so.
2019-1-25 01:19 | |
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Bitcoin is an open-source protocol that anybody can interact with. It is getting attention and attracting participation in different ways, whether it is through speculation, investing and sending money, all the way to contributing to what’s underneath the hood.
2019-1-16 01:14 | |
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Most people dealing with the altcoin space hardly ever think about how ‘green’ their cryptos really are. This is in part because most digital currencies on offer today are simply presented to us as a piece of code on the internet.
2018-12-1 20:26 | |
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After a lengthy delay, the Spyro Reignited Trilogy finally hit shelves last week. I’ve been playing it nonstop ever since, and as a longtime fan of the little purple guy, I’m more than satisfied with it, though admittedly it does come with a few control issues.
2018-11-20 19:02 | |
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Charles Hoskinson is best known today as a co-founder of both Ethereum and IOHK, where he leads the research, design and development of Cardano. But before these projects, there was Bitcoin.
2018-11-20 23:08 | |
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This rather long meme, which has been circulating lately, makes fun of the views of Bitcoin supporters by listing commonly made statements and contrasting them with contradicting statements or developments.
2018-10-4 22:27 | |
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Cardano, the platform underpinning ADA, the ninth largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is opening its doors to third-party developers through a new client, written in systems programing language Rust.
2018-10-2 16:45 | |
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An alpha version of the new Lightning desktop app has been released. The application includes a redesigned and optimized backend for light clients, as well as a simplified interface for users with little to no cryptocurrency experience.
2018-9-15 21:22 | |
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Many people know bitcoin as an anonymous digital currency, one whose privacy features prime it for concealed payments in sketchy recesses of the internet’s dark web.
2018-8-29 17:33 | |
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Matt Liu, Josh Fraser and former PayPal head Yu Pan want to bring the blockchain to the sharing economy. The trio is devising a platform with an emphasis on inclusive, peer-to-peer service hubs designed to decentralize the same consumer cost-friendly business models that have made companies like Airbnb, Uber and Lyft so popular in recent years.
2018-8-16 23:25 | |
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Google is reportedly working in a new feature in ChromeOS called Campfire, which will allow users to dual-boot Windows 10 on their Chromebook laptops. The feature was highlighted by XDA Developers, which discovered a code branch called Campfire in the Chromium Git, and a reference to an “Alt OS.
2018-8-13 14:54 | |
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I can’t really believe that we are writing this, but, according to a report by Coindesk, the recent ‘block’ of a file containing code for the production of a 3D printed gun, by Defence Distributed in Texas has been compared to an assault on the freedom of speech, as code and thus, has been outlined as a threat to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
2018-8-7 14:00 | |
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You don’t really need an excuse to revisit id Software’s genre-defining FPS game, DOOM – but indie developer Dario Zubovoic’s take on the classic is good enough reason to jump back into the gory shooter for a few rounds.
2018-7-23 09:46 | |
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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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Shortly after a successful comeback to Germany with BlockShow Europe 2018, the team gets to work again and announces BlockShow Americas 2018 - the next 2-day show and the very first one to be held in USA.
2018-7-6 14:58 | |
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Since its invention, a recurring question for cryptocurrency holders has been how to best secure their digital assets. This question of security carries the greatest weight when one understands the stakes of holding unprotected cryptocurrency — vulnerability to hackers.
2018-7-6 03:51 | |
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Even tighter than usual focus on the Lucidity code review, advertising is not an area I know a lot about, so I really can’t comment much on this. The website says it’s “The blockchain advertising protocol for complete data transparency” so I assume there’s some business issue with data transparency in the advertising world that needs […] The post Lucidity Code Review: Advertising Transparency appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2018-6-26 18:00 | |
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Beam code review, interested in this one for a while and really want to see what they’re doing to improve Mimblewimble. Quick recap for those unfamiliar – the MW protocol is designed to be scalable, private, anonymous (named after tongue-tying silence spell from Harry Potter if you were wondering) and the Beam crew are trying […] The post Beam Code Review: Mimblewimble Evolved appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2018-6-19 20:35 | |
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