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Latest Ripple (XRP) News: XRP Coin Down Under 1% Percent, Is it ready for 60 Cents?

Obviously, CoinBase is a big player in the decentralization set-up—even if it is centralized. It is also super capitalized estimated to be around $8 billion. In part, to show how liquid it was, the exchange’s COO said they had to receive $300 million in the last Series E funding, money they didn’t need, but would […] дальше »

2019-3-18 02:50


Bitcoin and Its Alternative Cryptocurrency Offsprings: How to Find the Non-BTC Coin Gems?

Bitcoin came into existence almost a decade ago as an entity which aimed at disrupting the traditional centralized financial institutions. Since the launch, a number of other cryptocurrencies have forayed into the crypto ecosystem, and the coin market cap listing suggests there are 1600 of them listed on the trade market. Altcoin is the name given […] дальше »

2019-3-6 19:53


An Era of Centralized Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains: Binance’s DEX and JPM Coin

The launch of Binance’s decentralized exchange and JP Morgan’s proprietary cryptocurrency, JPM Coin, have raised fundamental questions about where the crypto industry is headed. Both products fall short of traditional definitions of decentralization, and instead, stake territory somewhere between the Facebooks and the Bitcoins of the Internet. дальше »

2019-2-27 06:06


SWIFT Outperforming Ripple, Bitcoin ETF On The Way, JP Morgan Launches Own Coin, XRP Centralized, Coinmama Hacked, Nasdaq to Add BTC and ETH Indices to its Global Data Services: This Week In Crypto

This week, as usual, was full of activities, most of it focused on the future of cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency adoption. Top among the stories were predictions on the future price of Bitcoin which have been mostly bullish. дальше »

2019-2-17 11:13


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New Exchange Security Scoring Model Offers Insurance Rates for Coin Holders

International cybersecurity solutions provider Group-IB has come up with a scoring model to grade crypto exchanges based on their level of security. The scoring model was created by Group-IB in conjunction with Swiss-based Cryptolns (which is operated by Swiss insurance broker APIS AS), and the grading is intrinsic to CryptoIns’ new cryptocurrency exchange insurance, which will allow exchange users to cover up to 15 BTC worth of digital assets held in their exchange accounts. дальше »

2018-11-13 00:43


Many Crypto Experts Think XRP is Not a Security, But What Happens if Ripple’s Coin is Ruled One?

Earlier in June, William Hinman, the Director of the Division of Corporate Finance in the SEC, declared that Ethereum is not a security. The announcement came as a reprieve to crypto investors. Speaking on Ethereum, Hinman noted that it operates on a decentralized network, rather than a typical centralized platform that usually offers securities. For […] дальше »

2018-10-30 23:14


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Circle’s USDC Stablecoin Begins Trading

Boston-based cryptocurrency finance firm Circle has just joined the multitudes of other crypto exchange platforms now issuing and trading their own stablecoins. As of September 26, 2018, dollar-pegged USDC is now trading on Poloniex, the crypto-to-crypto exchange Circle acquired in February 2018, and on Circle Trade, the company’s over-the-counter (OTC) platform. дальше »

2018-9-27 20:50


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Ripple’s XRP the least Loser in the Last 7 Days & Daily Life Uses

The San Francisco based crypto-startup Ripple, since its debut, is close connected with deviation of traditional cryptocurrency philosophy. The delivering of traditional banking infrastructure solutions for efficiency, the centralized nature of XRP and the team’s comments in favor of the fiat standard has made the community engage a hate sentiment towards the coin. дальше »

2018-8-5 12:23


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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

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. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


Notes on Blockchain Governance

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. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


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