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Canada Backs Central Bank-issued Crypto to Bring Economic Gains

An economic and crypto researcher at the Canda’s central bank says that the existence of CBDCs could provide better flexibility in creating monetary policies. Banking institutions from around the globe and other financial agencies have been largely promoting the idea of Central Bank-backed Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Off lately we have been seeing a lot of дальше »

2018-7-28 23:03


STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

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. 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


New EU Directive Further Erodes Cryptocurrency Anonymity

A lot of people still assume all cryptocurrencies are anonymous. That is not the case, though, and it seems that situation will only become more apparent moving forward. EU regulators are actively cracking down on any and all anonymity associated with cryptocurrency, which could have all kinds of consequences. Another Crackdown on Crypto Anonymity Over […] дальше »

2018-6-28 04:00


EOS Founder Wants to Scrap the Platform's Constitution, Start Anew

Daniel Larmier, the founder and technical architect of EOS, has confirmed that he wants to scrap the platform’s current constitution and build a new one. Speaking on the EOSIO Gov Telegram Channel, Larimer claimed he has doubts about the company’s current on-chain governance model and called the existing constitution “unwise. дальше »

2018-6-28 01:44


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a16z, This Could Skyrocket The Markets

According to reports out today, venture capitalist Andreessen Horowitz has launched a new investment project which goes by the name a16z. The name is impressive, but what does it mean for you and your crypto investments? On a surface level, not a lot, however, we believe that a16z is a live example of how large institutional investment will pan out of the next few years. дальше »

2018-6-26 13:00


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Popular Plugin Is About To Expose A lot Of Users To The Benefits Of Blockchain

With over 500 Million users, Adblock Plus could be considered a very popular plug-in/web browser extension. If you’re not aware of it, Adblock Plus is a piece of advert-blocking software that uses its inbuilt technology to block adverts within various different web browsers, from Safari to Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, to name but a few. дальше »

2018-6-14 15:30