Glimpse into the Future at Hong Kong Blockchain Week

The first thing to know about blockchain technology is that there is a lot to know. There is, of course, Bitcoin, which has always been seen as Batman to blockchain’s Robin, or vice-versa. But since those early days when Bitcoin and blockchain were seemingly joined at the hip, the nascent technology has begun to outgrow […]

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Crypto Doesn’t Get Much Wilder And Wester Than Wyoming

You know a town has real Western cred when a pickup truck is named after it. Yarp, Laramie is a cowboy town, through and through – it may have the lowest sneaker-to-cowboy-boot ratio in the entire nation.

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Survey: Volume Chart Is the Most Used Technical Indicator by Cryptocurrency Traders

When the word “trading” occurs with a term, then “analysis” is also a part of the process apart from buying and selling. Just as forex and stock trading makes use of technical charts and indicators for analyzing the trend, so does the cryptocurrency trading.

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Battle of the Privacycoins: Why Dash Is Not Really That Private

Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.

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What is Holochain?

With news of Jim Cook, the CFO of Mozilla and the co-founder of Netflix, releasing a testimonial on YouTube, Holo has been attracting a lot of attention in the cryptocurrency market and the blockchain industry.

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5 ways blockchain can increase customer loyalty — and win brands’ battle for engagement

With Singapore Airlines and Delta Air Lines recently introducing blockchain-based loyalty programs and replacing its air miles with cryptocurrency respectively, it shows that blockchain stands to radically transform traditional loyalty programs as we know.

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Our Work Here Is Done, 84% Of Firms Now Using Blockchain Tech

As blockchain and crypto enthusiasts, our goal is to get everyone in the world using blockchain technology. We believe in this technology because we know it has the power to change the world. Like the early advocates of the internet, we have, in our hands, a technology that will change the way we communicate, spend money, store data and many other things.

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Pay From Bitcoin Mainnet to Lightning and Back: Submarine Swaps Are Now Live

In order to make payments on the lightning network — Bitcoin’s second layer solution for instant and cheap transactions — users must first fund lightning channels.

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Zuckerberg Set To Join Huobi Expert Advisory Committee

The Zuckerbergs, made famous by Mark, Mark Zuckerberg the founder and owner of Facebook. Now we know Mark himself does have an interest in cryptocurrencies, and, also wants to start exploring blockchain technologies within Facebook specifically, however it is his sister, Randi Zuckerberg, who is spearheading a new career within the cryptosphere.

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5 Blockchain Projects Content Creators Should Know About

While not every industry would necessarily benefit from blockchain technology, online content is one of the areas that could… The post 5 Blockchain Projects Content Creators Should Know About appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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Polymath Brings Automated Securities One Step Closer

If you’ve ever invested in an ICO, you know that one part of the investing process is still stuck in the twentieth century. After researching via invisible wireless networks, and deciding to invest with instant digital currency, you still have to wait days—or weeks—for someone to visually inspect a scan of your passport.

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The Anatomy of Anonymity: How Dandelion Could Make Bitcoin More Private

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.

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Premined Coins Like XRP, TRX, XLM And NEO Are Causing Problems For Index Funds

Premined cryptocurrencies are tokens that don’t need to be mined from the blockchain. The concept is a little more complicated than this, but, ultimately for the purposes of this article that’s about as much as you need to know.

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How Cryptographic Algorithms and Hashing Secure Blockchains

Cryptographic algorithms are at the very heart of blockchain technology. This guide will explain everything you need to know about how they work. The post How Cryptographic Algorithms and Hashing Secure Blockchains appeared first on CoinCentral.

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16 Famous Quotes About Cryptocurrency

With Bitcoin well and truly having entered the public consciousness, it’s not surprising that everyone has an opinion on it, regardless of whether they are experts in the technology or cryptocurrency field.

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Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term

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”).

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To fight the talent shortage, train your current employees

How many people can program a driverless car? How many can program an artificial intelligence? How many can get their head around blockchain (and no, it doesn’t count if you invested €100 in Bitcoin)? And yet, how many times have you read about driverless cars being on the cusp of adoption, or traditional currencies being on the verge of becoming obsolete? The truth is, the pool of individuals who actually know how to build these technologies is very small.

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Ethereum Classic (ETC): The Diamond You Didn’t Know Existed

Ethereum Classic (ETC) has long been hailed as a hidden diamond in some crypto circles. This time, the whole crypto community can literally see what it really meant. It is true that Ethereum Classic (ETC) is a rare diamond of a blockchain project, but that is not what we are talking about.

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TaTaTu Blockchain Platform Rewards Users for Watching Movies in TTU Tokens

TaTaTu Rewards Users for Watching Movies On their Platform Of course, we know that most top 100 virtual currencies have a very close relationship with Bitcoin. If the famous virtual currency moves up or down, altcoins tend to follow that trend.

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Three Interesting Uses of Blockchain Outside of Bitcoin

We all know that blockchain technology underpins our cryptocurrency transfers – but this needn’t be its only application. Around the world, companies, governments and individuals are starting to find new and exciting uses for blockchain.

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What Is Hedera Hashgraph?

Achieving consensus using blockchain technology can be achieved in many ways. The Hedera Hashgraph project is taking a unique approach. Its mission is to establish trust between parties without having to know the other party.

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StellarX Weigh In On The Problems With Running ICO’s On Ethereum

StellarX is the looming crypto asset trading platform, developed by an affiliated branch of Stellar (you know, the XLM crypto project). As the StellarX platform continues to see its development, some of the team there have been carrying out side research into why the Ethereum blockchain is a bad place to launch an ICO, indeed, they share some interesting findings too.

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Thailand’s central bank will issue its own digital currency — but there’s a catch

Details have emerged of a new digital currency to be issued by the central bank of Thailand – it’s built on an open-source blockchain eerily reminiscent of Ripple, the popular banking ledger developed by Ripple Labs.

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Bakkt Is The Biggest Thing To Happen For BTC Institutional Adoption And Now The CEO Wants Us To Know More

August marked the launch of Bakkt, a new blockchain and cryptocurrency project that nurtures involvement from mainstream companies such as Microsoft and Starbucks. The essence of Bakkt is that it could inspire a great deal of institutional investment and could make things like Bitcoin ETF applications far more likely to be improved.

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9 Main Barriers to Widespread Cryptocurrency Adoption

Most of us know of blockchain's potential, but there are still some major barriers to mass cryptocurrency adoption. Check out the top nine. The post 9 Main Barriers to Widespread Cryptocurrency Adoption appeared first on CoinCentral.

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Ethereum’s Scam Issues Aren’t Getting Better

Earlier this year in July, products that have been resembling ‘Ponzi Schemes’ have been ‘topping the charts’ amongst decentralised applications (dapps) which are running on the globes second biggest blockchain.

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Top 8 Benefits To Using Cryptocurrency Every User Should Know About

Cryptocurrencies or they have become commonly known “digital money” are based on the blockchain technology. This technology in simple terms creates a digital ledger of all assets, whether money, tangible properties, vehicles or stocks.

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What You Need to Know about Blockchain Technology Investments

Blockchain represents one of the most controversial technologies developed in the recent years. The main reason for the controversy is the fact that this tech has changed the way in which the internet can be used.

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Ripple’s CTO invented a distributed computer system 20 years before blockchain – ask him about it

The mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto is often credited with inventing blockchain – the tech behind the recent cryptocurrency and decentralization boom. But long before Nakamoto published his seminal paper that shaped Bitcoin as we know it, Ripple chief technology officer David Schwartz had already come up a similar concept.

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Unibright Partners with Lufthansa, Microsoft, and NEM to Build a Bridge Between Different Industries

Unibright, a unified framework for blockchain-based business integration, has partnered with Lufthansa, Microsoft, and NEM.   Making Blockchain Easy Three months after Unibright reached its hardcap in only 10 days, the company has been making newsworthy partnerships left and right — all of which will bring real use-cases to the project.

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Distributed Dialogues: Weighing In on Privacy Implications

At the recent Distributed 2018 conference in San Francisco, Rick Lewis and Dave Hollerith from the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network interviewed a host of different personalities in the blockchain space about digital privacy.

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Distributed Dialogues: David Chaum, Patrick Byrne and Blockchain Privacy

At the recent Distributed 2018 conference in San Francisco, Rick Lewis and Dave Hollerith from the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network interviewed a host of different personalities in the blockchain space about digital privacy.

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Stem Cells – Helping You Stay Young

The human body continues to throw surprises ever so often during our quest to know it better. And the… The post Stem Cells – Helping You Stay Young appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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Oracle, Social Reality Inc., and Riot Blockchain, Inc. Embrace Blockchain Technology

Much has been said about the massive potential of blockchain technology to revolutionize the world as we know it. Blockchain ensures a transparent, decentralized mechanism that could eliminate many of the problems being faced by corporate and government sectors.

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What is IOST?

Ask anyone in the know and they will tell you that the blockchain industry is plagued by scalability constraints,…

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What is IOSToken (IOST)?

Ask anyone in the know and they will tell you that the blockchain industry is plagued by scalability constraints,… The post What is IOSToken (IOST)? appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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SunContract – Blockchain P2P Energy Company Offering Decentralized Energy to Slovenian Households

For years, people throughout the world have dealt with issues caused by the natural monopoly associated with energy distributors. Fortunately, things are slowly changing for the better with the introduction of the SunContract platform.

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Crypto Facebook – What You Need to Know

The world's largest social media platform is exploring the possibilities of integrating blockchain technology. Read about it here. The post Crypto Facebook – What You Need to Know appeared first on CoinCentral.

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DJ Who “Turned Down Wall St.” Is On a Quest to Decentralize Music Festivals

Independent DJ Justin Blau (known on stage as 3LAU) didn’t exactly stumble into the cryptocurrency industry — to say so would misrepresent how much thought he’s put into his blockchain-based event network, Our Music Festival (OMF).

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Ethereum Sharding: All You Need To Know on Ethereum’s Scaling Solution

At Ethereum’s peak usage, growing transaction fees and gas costs make the sending of tokens extremely expensive. Obviously, a scaling fix is needed just like with any other blockchain.

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Blockchain Race For Outer Space: Why NASA, ESA & Multiple Crypto Projects Are Studying DLT Benefits

Humankind has spent little time in space; we barely know anything about it – in the past governments have placed little focus on exploring it – leaving it a type of enigma. It's only been in recent years that people like Elon Musk have started exploring it.

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The Ultimate Guide to Blockchain Programming for New Developers

I want to contribute code to one of these projects – how can I get started? Is there any one language used specifically for blockchains? I don’t know how to… The post The Ultimate Guide to Blockchain Programming for New Developers appeared first on CoinCentral.

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AxiomLevel Targets Institutional Investors With Investor Onboarding Platform

The slow trickle of traditional investment into the crypto market may turn into a flood if a new platform launched by blockchain services provider AxiomLevel Technologies makes its desired impact.

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5 Blockchain Facts to Remember in 2018

Blockchain technology is in a bubble. Investors continue to throw money at projects exploring this technology regardless of whether or not those businesses can succeed. Despite the growing interest, there are a lot of things people still do not know about blockchain, even in 2018.

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Bitcoin Green Introduces Less-Polluting ‘Proof-of-Stake’ Crypto Infrastructure

The soaring cryptocurrency prices in 2017 were enough incentive for people to start mining digital coins on their own. However, it soon became apparent to those who did not alrady know that mining is a very energy-intensive activity and is a big contributor to the pollution problem facing the planet.

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Blockchain Startup SwipeCrypto is Set to Reimagine Data Privacy and Monetization as We Know It Today

With the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal awakening data privacy concerns in the general public earlier this year, SWIPECrypto startup is using blockchain to restore trust and accountability to how data is used and handled.

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Can Blockchain Make Fraudulent Fisheries a Thing of the Past?

Think you know your halibut from hake, or your salmon from swordfish? Think again. Incidents of fraudulent fish labelling are rife – but blockchain technology could fix it. Blockchain Technology Set to Revolutionise Supply Chains Modern supply chains are incredibly complex.

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Are You Following The New Crypto Daily Instagram Yet?

We pleased to announce the rebirth of the Crypto Daily Instagram, inspired by our content creation team, delivering the hottest cryptocurrency and blockchain news, right in the palm of your hand. If you’re not with us already, get onboard and follow us at @CryptoDailyOfficial.

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SEC Comes Calling For Long Blockchain (You Know, The Iced Tea Company)

Last December, a beverage company changed its name to cash in on the blockchain craze. Now, the SEC is investigating.

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