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Barclay Blockchain Coding Hackaton ‘DerivHack’ Aims to Revamp Derivatives Market

One of the UK's banking giants, Barclays, is pitting blockchain startup companies against one another this year. But the way it sounds is very different to what it actually means, as Barclays is asking the respective teams to help revamp the global derivatives market at a hackathon next month. Taking place in both New York […] дальше »

2018-8-10 00:44


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Dipping a Toe or Diving in: Big Business and Blockchain

Major corporations are stepping off of the blockchain train, which has some believing that this means the end of the love affair between major corporations and distributed ledger technology. This year will see the end of several blockchain companies, while other projects are walking back their anticipation for blockchain’s power to revolutionize their businesses. дальше »

2018-8-3 14:00


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An Australian Blockchain Experiment: Tracking Global Almond Shipments

Following a successful 2016 trial of blockchain technology in an interbank open account transaction, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has partnered with five international and Australian companies to ship 17 tonnes of almonds from Melbourne, Australia, to Hamburg, Germany, using a new distributed ledger platform built on the Ethereum blockchain. дальше »

2018-7-31 23:13


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Bitwise Files With SEC for Cryptocurrency ETF

Bitwise Asset Management is the latest venture to apply for a cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETF). Called the Bitwise HOLD 10 Cryptocurrency Index Fund, the ETF will track the returns of the company’s HOLD 10 Index, a “market-cap-weighted index of the 10 largest cryptocurrencies” that captures roughly 80 percent of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization. дальше »

2018-7-25 02:18


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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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Blockchain Startup Apollon Begins Token Crowdsale July 16th for a Pan-Entertainment Ecosystem

The Apollon Blockchain project is a visionary means to develop a commercial-level integrated infrastructure to support related businesses applications. Presently, the costs of implementing a blockchain into a business model are time and resource intensive with the requirements of [G1] knowledgeable staff to maintain and operate the system as well as expensive hardware upgrades; it’s […] The post Blockchain Startup Apollon Begins Token Crowdsale July 16th for a Pan-Entertainment Ecosystem appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-7-17 14:59