2022-8-6 20:25 |
We already knew that crypto developers cannot always be trusted. But can we trust the data?
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2022-8-6 20:25 |
We already knew that crypto developers cannot always be trusted. But can we trust the data?
Similar to Notcoin - Blum - Airdrops In 2024
The fact that Bitcoin is now a significant innovation rather than a fad that could soon render the dollar and most fiat currencies ineffective cannot be further from the truth. In the recent past, the crypto asset has steadily proven its value, emerging strongly from traditional iniquities that have always plagued fiat currencies due to […]
2021-10-18 16:22 | |
There is a saying that “if you don’t save your strength to fight another, you may never get the chance to redeem your image. ” Well, what it means is that while the urge to make amends and recover from a losing position is always too strong, one cannot afford to give in to it ifRead MoreRead More.
2020-4-22 19:15 | |
Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
The technology is always moving forward, so financial institutions cannot get behind the times. Recently, a group of four banks (DekaBank, DZ Bank, Dwpbank and Helaba) has decided to start a new blockchain-based initiative.
2019-5-23 01:39 | |
To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
Andreas Antonopoulos, who has been a popular face in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, recently addressed the scalability conundrum plaguing the Bitcoin [BTC] blockchain. As he continued to discuss important topics, Antonopoulos, in a recent Bitcoin Q/A session on his official YouTube channel, said that the long-winded scalability problem will always exist.
2019-4-15 19:30 | |
New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
As humanity continues to evolve and technology along with it, there is one constant that cannot seem to be outrun: the dependence on energy. From the earliest days of cavemen discovering fire to today’s extensive power grids, energy has always been the lifeblood of human advancement.
2019-3-29 09:26 | |
At the December 7, 2018, TenX Summit, a group of developers showcased an industry first: an atomic swap between a non-native asset, TenX’s PAY token, and a native asset, bitcoin.
2018-12-13 21:50 | |
At the December 7, 2018, TenX Summit, a group of developers showcased an industry first: an atomic swap on the Lightning Network between a non-native asset, TenX’s PAY token, and a native asset, bitcoin.
2018-12-13 21:50 | |
It’s Monday which means only one thing – it’s also Moonday. We’re so into blockchain and cryptocurrency we don’t even call Monday Monday anymore. It is, and will always be, Moonday in our hearts.
2018-10-29 12:37 | |
Even though all of the major cryptocurrencies are dipping into the red, there are always a few projects bucking the trend. Electroneum is going on a tear once again while other markets bleed value.
2018-10-10 10:55 | |
In a landmark case for the cryptocurrency industry, a federal judge has ruled that a cryptocurrency caught in the midst of a lawsuit is a commodity, court documents reveal.
2018-9-28 23:15 | |
Several Chinese researchers from Fudan University, Tsinghua University and the University of California Riverside have produced the first systematic study of the malicious mining of cryptocurrencies, known as cryptojacking, unveiling increasing complexity over time.
2018-9-25 23:59 | |
One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”).
2018-8-28 04:03 | |
Capital gains on crypto transactions are easy to track, one at a time. What about when there are thousands?Cryptocurrency capital gains taxes are becoming a point of interest for governments.
2018-7-31 20:04 | |
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 | |
The following is a diagram from a slide that I made in one of my presentations at Cornell this week: </img> If there was one diagram that could capture the core principle of Casper’s incentivization philosophy, this might be it.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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 | |
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 | |
It appears Twitter and Tron (TRX) are discussing something very vital. Justin Sun, the founder of Tron announced today that the micro-blogging site sent some of its officials to Tron office. The beginning of a partnership is always a romance between two or three firms, it is the same in the cryptocurrency space.
2018-7-11 16:59 | |
The SEC’s proclamation that ether (ETH) is not a security has sparked some celebration amongst the cryptocurrency community. Regulatory clarity is always a good thing, but ICO operators shouldn’t see this as a reason to put the champagne on ice.
2018-6-26 19:36 | |
There is substantial controversy surrounding Tether, a cryptocurrency that claims to be pegged to the U. S. dollar. According to Tether, each Tether token is backed by one U.
2018-6-14 22:01 | |
In an informal statement made at Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit: Crypto, William Hinman, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s director of corporate finance, indicated that the regulatory agency has no plans to deem ether a security.
2018-6-14 21:32 | |