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The infamous hacker group, under the guise of "Blockchain Bandit," made a grand comeback with a sensation of merging 51,000 Ether into a single wallet, which totaled $172.2 million, almost two years after going into stealth mode. origin »
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Crypto trackers and alarmers Whale Alert noticed an old-school holder move 740 Bitcoin (BTC) two days ago after the coins sat dormant for over nine years. According to a cryptocurrency blockchain explorer service Blockchain dot com, the whale’s address transacted 38 times, receiving a total of 793.
2021-7-15 07:00 | |
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At the blockchain conferences and blockchain industry discussions over the last two years I had many chances to listen to talks about crypto regulation by the new gurus of the crypto. Being a tech law scholar for 20+ years, I was originally intrigued, but intrigue gave way to disappointment fast.
2018-12-3 17:30 | |
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Distributed ledger technology may add $5 billion to Indian economy in the next five years, according to NASSCOM’s VP Industry Initiatives. The non-profit trade association, which represents the sector of software and services companies in the country, has backed blockchain technology for many years.
2018-7-28 17:24 | |
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The rise of the blockchain in recent years has been likened to the rise of the Internet in the…
The post Should You Invest in BAT? (Opinion) appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2018-7-28 16:32 | |
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After years of discussion and planning, enterprise blockchain is now becoming a reality across industries as diverse as insurance, healthcare, gold, oil and gas, finance and more. However, when you raise your attention to the level of industries and markets, you see an entirely different scenario. This is what we at R3 believe is the
2018-7-27 18:03 | |
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Markets are decentralized, so they need decentralized software. After years of discussion and planning, blockchain is delivering, writes R3's CTO.
2018-7-27 15:00 | |
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The application of blockchain technology to a myriad of global developmental problems continues to be one of the most interesting aspects of the evolution of the tech in recent years. Countries with the willingness to apply the technology in unique and exciting ways are able to make impressive strides in terms of innovation. Blockchain technology […]
2018-7-27 10:38 | |
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Blockchain technology has been in existence for over 10 years now and various projects have sprang up in that… The post Wanchain 2.0 is Live, Allows For Interoperability With Ethereum appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2018-7-27 04:56 | |
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Since we published our last reading list two years ago, the blockchain industry has grown dramatically and with it, the list of books, articles, newsletters and other valuable resources to learn about the space.
2018-7-27 22:08 | |
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Since we published our last reading list two years ago, the blockchain industry has grown dramatically and with it, the list of books, articles, newsletters and other valuable resources to learn about the space.
2018-7-27 22:08 | |
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The US authorities have lost several years and did not achieve significant results in studying blockchain technologies. Now US lags behind other countries that at that time more thoroughly studied, tested and launched government projects using technology of decentralized ledger.
2018-7-27 20:11 | |
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Chairman of the United States Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC), J. Christopher Giancarlo, has said that his agency is behind the curve of matters concerning blockchain technology.
2018-7-26 18:44 | |
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Today many companies understand that their long-term investment goals can be achieved only within stable, healthy and free social and financial environments. Earth Nation’s businesses have been in profitable operation for two to twenty five years, and incorporating the blockchain to their system is seen as a leap in the right direction. Earth Nation takes […]
2018-7-26 05:26 | |
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During a July 25 Congressional hearing, the chairman of the CFTC outlined the need for a legal process for the agency to participate in blockchain project trials
2018-7-26 03:50 | |
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Decentralized Goldman Sachs: Etfs For Everyone Over the past couple of years, fiscal trading has largely turned out to be computerized. This is due to the fact that a number of trades are now carried out by algorithms.
2018-7-26 00:54 | |
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Chinese mining company Bitmain has announced it is exploring new policies that will boost the company’s transparency and communication with the cryptocurrency community.
2018-7-26 19:33 | |
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Ripple (XRP)–Ripple, the blockchain startup parent company that created the XRP cryptocurrency, has released somewhat disappointing figures for the second quarter of 2018. Ripple holds a vast amount of the total supply of XRP in an escrow account that will not be fully paid out for the next several years.
2018-7-25 19:13 | |
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As Kai Stinchcombe puts it in Ten Years In, Nobody Has Come up With a Use for Blockchain, blockchain has no real use except “currency speculation and illegal transactions”. In my earlier posts, I discussed how blockchain removes the middlemen, so let’s focus on two new aspects here: is this necessary? Hacking a blockchain is
2018-7-25 09:03 | |
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It was shocking – and offending – when I heard the news of Katlego Marite’s kidnapping and that the kidnappers had demanded ransom in Bitcoin. As Kai Stinchcombe puts it in Ten Years In, Nobody Has Come up With a Use for Blockchain, blockchain has no real use except “currency speculation and illegal transactions”. But […]
2018-7-25 05:00 | |
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Since BT is the most classic application of decentralization in the PC era, such conjecture is not unfounded. Rise and Fall of BT Born in 2003, BT now has a history of 15 years. In addition to the same decentralized concept, intimateness between BT and the blockchain has already been symptomatic. What BT brings to
2018-7-25 00:45 | |
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Decentralized prediction market Augur is attracting criticism following its launch as potentially illegal markets begin to surface on its platform. ‘This Was Inevitable’ Augur, which finally launched in full July 9 after a beta phase lasting two years, currently has almost $2 million in open interest on its Ethereum DApp.
2018-7-24 21:00 | |
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Joan Laporta has joined the Advisory Board of the company Urbit Data. This way, the company consolidates its growth strategy with a solid project with an enormous global projection. Urbit’s new consultant has stood out for many years for his successful and relevant career, both in the field of senior sports management and in his […] The post Joan Laporta, lawyer and former president of FC Barcelona, joins Blockchain Technology Company Urbit Data appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-7-24 23:50 | |
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The increasing number of women in the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain has been increasing in the last few years. According to the most commonly cited research papers, women make about 9% of the total personalities in the field consisting of developers, managers, and investors. In the last six months the number has increased to […]
2018-7-23 19:57 | |
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San Francisco-based SharesPost, a prominent provider of private firm liquidity solutions and private capital markets study, has released a new research report detailing the comprehensive market opportunity for the blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) industry.
2018-7-23 18:34 | |
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A new update from the comprehensive semiannual blockchain spending guide predicts blockchain spending to reach a new peak of almost $12 billion in 2022. America Dishes out the Most Spending is expected to increase with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 73.
2018-7-23 08:00 | |
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ZED offers a compliance-friendly solution enabling Money Transfer Operators to leverage leading blockchain technology and scale their business. For small to medium sized MTOs that can't effectively compete with larger MTOs, ZED is a SaaS platform built on a distributed ledger that reduces costs and transaction friction.
2018-7-22 20:34 | |
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Banks have shown a keen interest in Bitcoin technology over the years. Various patents have been filed by these financial institutions to explore new potential business use cases. JPMorgan was recently awarded a patent which could allow the bank to issue blockchain-based virtual depository receipts.
2018-7-22 02:00 | |
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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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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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ELVN: The Instant Messenger that is Paying for Social Networking ELVN is an instant messenger that is bound to change the way people chat. The platform will be offering its customers a built-in social networking platform, an incentive program, and a crypto wallet.
2018-7-21 19:51 | |
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Until a few years ago, only the wealthy countries were in a good position to explore space. By 1973, the idea of sending a private mission to space was not only unheard of, but it was also unimaginable.
2018-7-21 17:17 | |
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Mike Novogratz, one of the most influential investors and analysts in crypto verse, spoke this week about the future of cryptocurrencies, their global adoption, and the coming blockchain revolution.
2018-7-21 09:25 | |
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While blockchain technology is undoubtedly hugely innovative, the limitations of its existing iterations have become increasingly clear over the last few years. Several of the inherent features of the blockchain that initially endeared it to the masses are now making it difficult for it to be adopted on a global scale.
2018-7-21 09:00 | |
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One of the richest people in cryptocurrency explained the importance of the due regulatory approach of the crypto sphere for its mass adoption and shared noteworthy opinion on the influence of retail investors on this process.
2018-7-21 00:03 | |
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Former Wall Street executive Mike Novogratz has recently predicted that mass adoption of crypto and blockchain is “still five to six years away,” Blokt blockchain and tech news outlet reports July 19.
2018-7-20 01:30 | |
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Mike Novogratz has predicted that mass adoption of crypto and blockchain industry is coming no earlier than in “five to six years”
2018-7-19 21:53 | |
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NBA Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry sees a lot of potential in Bitcoin’s future, as well as that of its investors. Lasry predicts the value of Bitcoin will skyrocket, and investors will be seeing an increase of up to 10 times in just three to five years, according to CNBC.
2018-7-19 21:24 | |
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One of the most complex DApps to run on the Ethereum blockchain, Augur, is a decentralized prediction market enabling users to bet on almost anything. On July 18, 2018, Augur announced on Twitter that the first market on its platform confirmed $20K in payouts to users.
2018-7-19 20:00 | |
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Meet Enigma’s Guy Zyskind and find out why he thinks most current blockchain protocols will not be around in 10 years, and why he wishes he had entered crypto back in 2010
2018-7-19 18:41 | |
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A new start-up that has risen in two years to account for 15% of New York’s commercial property submarket deals, has acquired a commercial real estate listing search company called 42Floors.
2018-7-19 17:18 | |
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Once the genie leaves the bottle, it’s impossible to put back. This narrative has been quite true for the crypto and blockchain industry. After coming under attack in its early days, most often from those industries that it disrupted the most, a sharp turnaround has come about in the last few years as more adversaries […]
2018-7-19 23:00 | |
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There is a growing connection between cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and eSports. EtherSportz aims to make big things happen, as the company is designed to facilitate eSports matchmaking and tournament hosting.
2018-7-18 16:00 | |
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According to a report from the Big Innovation Centre, DAG Global, and Deep Knowledge Analytics, Britain has all the necessary resources, the government support, and the industrial will to lead the cryptocurrency and blockchain movement in the next few years.
2018-7-18 08:00 | |
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Blockchain has truly revolutionized the way online system works. The application that it is based on, can help various sectors and industries and that’s what we have been witnessing from the past few years.
2018-7-17 18:48 | |
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There are over 600 million Africans living without electricity despite an abundance of sunshine and hundreds of thousands of solar projects on the drawing board.
2018-7-17 17:41 | |
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Lee Sedol, known as the grand master player of “GO,” a 4500 years old Chinese board game is working in synergy with a Korean blockchain company, The Blockchain Inc, to develop a blockchain version of the ancient game.
2018-7-17 17:30 | |
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The UK is well-placed to become a global hub for blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies within the next few years, according to analysts.
2018-7-17 08:42 | |
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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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Over the past years, plenty of industries are looking for ways in which they can use blockchain technologies and the auto sector is already looking to launch significant blockchain initiatives this year.
2018-7-16 11:43 | |
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The crypto market is imploding, with the total market capitalization in the industry crashing from over $3. 5 trillion in November to $2. 58 trillion. Bitcoin and most altcoins like Shiba Inu, Pepe, XRP, and Pi Network have all retreated by double digits from their 2024 highs.
An unknown attacker prompted Ethereum developers to roll out a “private fix” as the network grappled with technical issues during the Pectra upgrade on the Sepolia testnet. In a post-incident report, Ethereum developer Marius van der Wijden revealed that the…
Crypto coins remained under pressure during the weekend even after Donald Trump announced his plans for a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) and held the first crypto summit in Washington. Bitcoin’s price has crashed below $83,000, while the valuation of most coins has dropped to $2.
Ethereum price has crashed this year, as its on-chain metrics waned and spot ETH exchange-traded funds (ETF) outflows rose. ETH has crashed in the last two consecutive weeks, and is hovering at its lowest level since December 2023.
The crypto market shows mixed signals today, with Ethereum dropping to the $2,100 mark while altcoins like Crypto-AI-Robo, CZ’s Dog and Prosper have surged double digits in the last 24 hours. According to the latest market data, Bitcoin (BTC) is…
Ethereum price surged 6% in the past 24 hours, reclaiming the $2,300 level despite weakening decentralized finance metrics. According to data from Defi Llama, in February, Ethereum’s (ETH) total value locked fell to $50 billion from a peak of $71…
Aave has proposed a comprehensive update to its economic framework, focusing on revenue distribution, staking incentives, and liquidity management. The proposal, introduced by Aave Chan Initiative (ACI) founder Marc Zeller on March 4, is considered a pivotal development in Aave’s evolution.