Fifth upgrade to Tezos blockchain featuring smart contracts and more is now live

CryptoNinjas » Fifth upgrade to Tezos blockchain featuring smart contracts and more is now live This past weekend, the Tezos blockchain successfully upgraded by adopting Edo at block #1,343,489, making it the fifth Tezos upgrade in the last two years.

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Do it! DGBLabs Token Presale is Live – Liquidity Bootstrap Pool Sale to Kick Off on Balancer Soon

At this point in time, one can accurately predict that blockchain technology is here to stay. In fact, it’s also safe to say that the market is only just getting started, as massive disruption of the digital ecosystem is bound to occur in the years to come.

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Accelerating Financial Inclusion Through Technology

I believe that technology, when built and scaled right, can have a profoundly positive impact on humanity and improve people’s lives. In leading engineering teams at Amazon for 15 years, I witnessed first hand, customer focused innovations at scale that provided people with core necessities essential to how they live.

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100x Scaling Solution Launches on Ethereum

An Ethereum Foundation backed PayPal level scaling solution has gone live after close to two years of testing and development. zkSync describes itself as “an L2 scaling solution in which...

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Compound Goes DAO

The world’s first prominent decentralized autonomous organization is now live almost precisely four years after this was first tried on ethereum in 2016. Compound, a financial decentralized app running on.

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Matic Network (MATIC) Mainnet Goes Live

The Matic Network mainnet was launched on May 31, 2020, after 2. 5 years in development.   Marking an important milestone, the release of the first version of the network’s mainnet also triggers the second phase.

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Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson Reveals “Shelley” Roadmap, Speaks on “Systematic” Approach

Cardano’s much-awaited Shelley protocol is going live soon. The protocol has spent years in development, and has been ardently awaited by fans of Cardano and ADA, its native currency.   Steady and Systematic On May 28, Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Cardano, revealed the roadmap for Shelley, including code launch date, hard fork, and when theRead MoreRead More.

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Polkadot’s Chain Candidate Goes Live in Anticipation for the Proof of Stake (PoS) Version

Polkadot's initial mainnet has been launched by Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies according to a blog post on May 26. This much anticipated sharding protocol has been in the works for around three years and is expected to facilitate the integration of blockchain networks.

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Celo Mainnet Goes Live Following $10 Million Dutch Auction

Decentralised blockchain platform, Celo Gold, has launched its mainnet, meaning investors can now transfer their tokens on-chain. The Celo Foundation has announced its mainnet is live, almost two and a half years since the team began working on the project.

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Tron’s (TRX) Bug Bounty Continues to Bear Fruit as the Network Blossoms 2 Years On

In brief: Tron (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT) community member, pointed out that the Tron network has functioned flawlessly since its launch. For close to two years, the Tron Mainnet has continued to live up to expectations of the community.

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Over 1.4M XRP allegedly stolen via fake 'Ledger Live' Chrome extension

Scammers may have pivoted from the world's largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, to other parts of the industry by plaguing inboxes with malware over the years. And as the ecosystem has evolved and become The post Over 1.

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Major Milestone: Cardano Unveils Hydra Sharding Which Is A Crucial Breakthrough In Scalability

Cardano creator Charles Hoskinson recently revealed that researchers at IOHK are a step closer to bringing more scalability to the Cardano blockchain via a second-layer sharding solution, Hydra. Hydra Took Five Years Of Intense Work In a live video yesterday (March 9), IOHK CEO and Cardano creator Charles Hoskinson talked about a ground-breaking achievement for […]

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Bill Gates Predicted Coronavirus-Like Outbreak in 2019 Netflix Documentary

A Netflix documentary described how outbreaks like the coronavirus spread in live animal markets. Bill Gates warned it takes years to find a cure. The post Bill Gates Predicted Coronavirus-Like Outbreak in 2019 Netflix Documentary appeared first on CCN.com

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TronWallet 3 now live with full bitcoin support, swaps and new portfolio feature

TronWallet, the most widely used cryptocurrency mobile wallet in the TRON ecosystem, today announced the release of its latest version, TronWallet 3. After more than two years of continuous development, TronWallet now provides full support for bitcoin (BTC) across all platforms.

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VPLedger: An All-In-One Blockchain Platform

Since the moment the Bitcoin (BTC) network went live over 10 years…

The post VPLedger: An All-In-One Blockchain Platform appeared first on CCN.com

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Utopia, the complete decentralized toolkit for anonymous digital life is finally live

Have you ever dreamed of being able to express your thoughts completely free? Without control and censorship? Well, now, this image is becoming a reality. After six years of hard work and development,The post Utopia, the complete decentralized toolkit for anonymous digital life is finally live appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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The brutally honest guide to a career in tech journalism

Tech journalism is often regarded as an exciting and attractive career. And you know what? It absolutely is. But it’s also a damn tough business to enter. Getting your foot in the door is hard.

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Meeting Bitcoiners Online When They Live in the Same City

Bitcoin developer Mark "Murch" Erhardt tells CoinDesk about the most surprising interaction he ever had in his years of running the Bitcoin Stack Exchange. Turns out the crypto world *is* that small!

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Google wants to be a ‘good neighbor’ by pledging $1B to Bay Area housing

San Francisco is home to the tech elite, and is one of the most expensive places to live in the world, thanks to scores of tech firms moving in over the past couple of decades. Now, Google wants to make it a little more affordable.

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AXEL Network: Masternodes Content Distribution Network (CDN)?

AXEL. Network is a distributed, decentralized, and secured platform by Masternodes and secured by years of tech experience and innovative products. AXEL believes that decentralization is the future of the internet.

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3 years later, Visa’s blockchain-powered payment network finally goes live

Visa’s blockchain-powered B2B payments product has finally gone live after almost three years in the making. First made public in October 2016, the Visa B2B Connect network is being made available in 30 markets, with plans to expand to as many as 90 territories by the end of the year.

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Ripple: xRapid-powered remittance service to The Philippines will go live this month, confirms SendFriend

After years of being ridiculed an mocked, the world of cryptocurrencies and digital assets is finally getting its due following the growing involvement of several institutional investors. Presently, it’s not just financial and non-financial institutions running the race to get a step ahead in the field, but governments across the world are in the same […] The post Ripple: xRapid-powered remittance service to The Philippines will go live this month, confirms SendFriend appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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New Metrics on SANgraphs: ETH Locked Over Time

Authors and metrics creators: Maxim Odegov and Serge Nedashkovsky. Over the past few years, a number of dAPPs have emerged that require users to lock a certain amount of Ethereum in their smart contracts in order to access their services.

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TNW2019 Daily: Catch the official livestream

Can’t make it to TNW Conference this week? We’re going to miss your face, but don’t you worry! Just like previous years, we’re live streaming on both days. You can catch most of the talks from the comfort of your couch.

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ATRONOCOM DMCC ICO

Built for You and Your Crypto Lifestyle ATRONOCOM is currently conducting an investor SAFT - crowdsale to support the launch of the platform and accelerate development of its decentralized application ecosystem.

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British Drug Dealers Thrown in Jail for 30 Years Trusted Anonymous, Untraceable Bitcoin

By CCN. com: A recent report from news and media platform The Examiner Live has confirmed that four members of an organized crime ring that dealt in crystal meth in Yorkshire have been slapped with a 31-year jail term.

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Bitcoin Will Die in 10 Years but Cryptocurrencies Will Continue to Live on: European Poll

It seems that many believe Bitcoin has laid the foundation for cryptocurrencies, but will not be the leader forever – according to a Euro poll

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Five Years in the Making, Bisq Exchange Launches Its Bitcoin DAO

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.

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Gifto Is Challenging Content Monetization With Its Blockchain Gifting Platform

Live streaming services, where content creators can broadcast their talents to a worldwide live audience, have taken social media by storm in recent years. By 2022, it’s expected that up to 82% of all internet traffic will be video-based, most of which will be live-streamed content.

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Hallelujah! Google Assistant finally has access to your G Suite calendar

Google yesterday announced Calendar support via Google Assistant for G Suite customers at its Google Next event. This means employees and students using G Suite accounts will finally be able to edit, update, and check their Calendar using Assistant.

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NATO strategist: Die Hard 4 is the perfect way to describe real cyberwarfare

When I entered a snow-covered military base in Tallinn, Estonia, on a crisp winter morning to do interviews on cyberwarfare, I didn’t expect the fourth Die Hard movie to be part of my research.

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The Evolution of the Donation Economy and How Tipping Streamers Can Become the New Norm

Websites for posting videos, more importantly, holding live streams have been around for a while, ever since YouTube emerged almost 15 years ago. This brought a large change for content creators around the world, suddenly giving them a platform for sharing their talents, educating the masses, and providing a new form of entertainment. Soon enough, […]

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Op Ed: Answering 10 Common Questions About Cryptocurrency and Taxes

Depending on what country you live in, your cryptocurrency will be subject to different tax rules. The questions below address implications within the United States, specifically, but similar issues arise around the world.

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VeriBlock’s Bitcoin-Backed Security Protocol Goes Live

After a year on its testnet, the VeriBlock blockchain went live yesterday on the Bitcoin mainnet, allowing exchanges, wallet providers, merchants and other crypto businesses to leverage Bitcoin’s robust blockchain security.

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Good Guy Trump: President Makes Dying Connecticut Man’s Wish Come True

President Donald Trump took time out of his busy schedule on Tuesday put in a personal call to one of his biggest fans who only has months to live. The heartwarming surprise came about thanks to a social media campaign started by the Connecticut man’s sister who is an elected Democrat official.

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Bithoven: Crypto Trading Can Be Easy For Veterans And Newbies Alike

Cryptocurrency trading continues to grow at a rapid pace as people across the globe catch “crypto fever. ” Bithoven, a new cryptocurrency trading platform, has recognized the need for an easy-to-use exchange suited for crypto newcomers and veterans alike, and on Jan.

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The Ethereum Hardfork is Now Imminent

Finally, after years of development and some delays the Constantinople ethereum upgrade is good to go, with it to go live at about 8 PM London time, just about when... The post The Ethereum Hardfork is Now Imminent appeared first on Trustnodes.

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Op Ed: How Bitcoin’s Protocol of Peace Can End the Nuclear Age

Since it came to life in early 2009, Bitcoin has begun disrupting the world of finance. Over the years, this decentralized digital currency came to mean different things for different people.

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Looking Into Hasu Fly’s Essay “Unpacking Bitcoin’s Social Contract” and Futuristic Input

Bitcoin (BTC) has been affected by hard forks, divisions, and many other issues during the last few years. Although this is something that did harm the crypto space and the community, these public networks continue to grow and expand around the world.

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Living on Bitcoin for a Week in San Francisco

When I decided, maybe against my better judgement, to live on bitcoin for a week, the plan was met by a combination of cautions and jokes from friends and loved ones: “Just don’t starve,” “Well, it’s the New Year, a perfect time to start a new diet,” “Will you be able to eat?”, “Have you really thought about it?”I had “really” thought about it and it seemed not only sensible but necessary.

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Bitcoin’s ‘Five-Year Bet’ Now Has an Official Winner Between Ben Horowitz and Felix Salmon

As some of our regular readers may remember, around five years back in 2014 — a time when Bitcoin was trading between $250 and $700— Ben Horowitz and Felix Salmon appeared on NPR’s Planet Money podcast to discuss the future of digital finance.

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Bitcoin Influencer Shares His Side on Privacy Being the Base Layer and Scaling as a Secondary Layer

A Greek-British author, Bitcoin activist and Let’s Talk Bitcoin Host, Andreas M Antonopoulos has spoken on BTC’s scaling problems during a session on YouTube. There has been an ongoing debate on Bitcoin scalability for the past 6 years.

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Living on Bitcoin Day 7: A Supposedly Fun Thing I’d Definitely Do Again

This is the seventh instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 , on Day 3 , onDay 4, on Day 5 and on Day 6.

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BoE Senior Advisor: Cryptocurrencies ‘Are a Threat’ But I’m Not Too Worried

Live from a snow-covered World Economic Forum in Davos, the IMF cuts the global economic growth outlook by 3. 5%, the lowest in three years. Senior adviser to the Bank of England Huw van Steenis is leading their review of the future of finance, which he insists doesn’t include cryptocurrencies.

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Living on Bitcoin Day 1: “That’s Not Going to Work”

“The point is to get people to think about bitcoin, not spend it. I don’t think it’s good for that. It’s not meant to be used like cash,” Jeremy Gardner, founder of Ausum Ventures, advised me.

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Apple Maps is finally getting turn-by-turn navigation in India

Apple Maps has been available on iPhones in India for years, but it’s historically lacked a crucial feature – turn-by-turn navigation. Now, it looks like Apple’s finally rolling out the feature to iOS users in India.

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Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange Bisq Has a New UI and DAO

Decentralized exchange Bisq has upgraded its software with an entirely new User Interface (UI) design and the launch of the Bisq Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) on testnet.

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Nasdaq Powered DX.Exchange To Go Live Today, January 7th

Crypto traders and enthusiasts have waited since May last year for the Nasdaq powered DX. Exchange to go live. News of the exchanges first hit the crypto-verse during last years Consensus event in New York.

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Ten Years Later, a Reflection on Bitcoin’s Genesis and Satoshi’s Timing

October 31, 2008, and January 3, 2009. The two dates have cemented themselves with Promethean significance into Bitcoin’s lore. On the October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, a constitution of sorts for his revolutionary monetary system and its intrinsic currency.

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