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UTRUST and AidCoin Unite to Enhance Charitable Giving – Delivering Protected and Transparent Crypto Donations via the Blockchain

Zug, Switzerland: 25th July, 2018 – Blockchain-based payment platform, UTRUST, has today announced a technology integration with AidCoin; the ERC20 for the new era of charitable giving. The partnership will enable UTRUST users to make instant, seamless and secure donations to charities using 23 different cryptocurrencies through AIDChain, via the UTRUST interface. дальше »

2018-7-25 10:58


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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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PoWx Seeks to Change Bitcoin Mining with “Optical PoW”

Nonprofit organization PoWx has launched this week with the goal of boosting the idea behind proof of work (PoW) through more innovative algorithms. The company is seeking to decentralize Bitcoin mining and make it more accessible to consumers through a new technology that executives have dubbed “optical PoW” — a new type of hardware that utilizes a more advanced and energy-efficient form of laser technology as the cornerstone of mining. дальше »

2018-7-14 01:04


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Meme On: How to Make a Joke Coin Last

Between the dramatic drop in the possibility of imminent alien enslavement, and the SEC giving Ethereum the thumbs-up, there’s a lot to celebrate in the headlines. But as the champagne popped and the fireworks started, there was one thought on every mind: whatever happened to PotCoin?  After a four-year hiatus, the token for tokin’ suddenly […] The post Meme On: How to Make a Joke Coin Last appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »

2018-6-26 19:06


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