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A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus

Special thanks to Emin Gun Sirer for review We’ve heard for a long time that it’s possible to achieve consensus with 50% fault tolerance in a synchronous network where messages broadcasted by any honest node are guaranteed to be received by all other honest nodes within some known time period (if an attacker has more than 50%, they can perform a “51% attack”, and there’s an analogue of this for any algorithm of this type). дальше »

2018-8-9 04:03


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First To Try–2% of U.S. Investors Own Bitcoin, According to Gallup Poll

Approximately one out every four investors in the United States is intrigued by Bitcoin, but will not be buying the leading cryptocurrency anytime soon — according to a recent Gallup poll. The poll recognized investors as American adults that have invested at least $ 10,000 in stocks, bonds or mutual funds, either within or outside дальше »

2018-7-29 05:49


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Early Adopters — Gallup Poll Reveals 2% of American Investors Own Bitcoin

Approximately one out every four investors in the United States is intrigued by Bitcoin, but will not be buying the leading cryptocurrency anytime soon — according to a recent Gallup poll.   Early Days The Wells Fargo/Gallup Investor and Retirement Optimism Index survey for the second quarter of 2018 was conducted online from May 7-14. дальше »

2018-7-29 02:00


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Five Steps to Building Your Cryptocurrency Community

It’s interesting to see that throughout the history of cryptocurrencies, every successful project has a strong, supportive, and encouraging community backing the project’s vision and mission. While there are many factors to take into account like the quality of the product, the development roadmap, and going-to-market, building out a motivated community, is one of the best investments for a cryptocurrency. дальше »

2018-7-25 23:00


Credit Suisse Upgrades Square Stock Price Due To Cryptocurrency Payments Involvement

Credit Suisse, one of the leading global financial services for clients in nearly every facet of finance around the world is finally dipping their toes into the water of cryptocurrency. The company has worked hard to overhaul Square, giving the business payment processor and assistant for point of sale solutions an upgrade that has provided […] дальше »

2018-7-24 12:46


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


Чарли Ли: купите хотя бы один биткоин, а альткоины потом

Создатель Litecoin Чарли Ли посоветовал участникам сообщества вначале приобрести хотя бы 1 BTC, а затем инвестировать в альткоины. Он подчеркнул, что это правило касается и Litecoin. There will be at most 21 million bitcoins in existence. дальше »

2018-7-18 11:51


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This visualization of Venmo’s public data is terrifying

PayPal’s peer-to-peer payment app, Venmo, is one of the modern world’s greatest conveniences. It’s a simple way to send people money without jumping through a bunch of hoops. But, what if you found out that every transaction you completed with the app was, by default, instantly uploaded to the internet for the entire world to see? You’d be upset right? Well, as it turns out, if you never changed the privacy settings in your Venmo account you’re sharing your transaction history with everyone. дальше »

2018-7-17 20:48


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Promoted: The Future of Online Shopping Is Powered by Spl.yt — A Decentralized E-Commerce Protocol

As a rapidly growing business sector, e-commerce continues to open up new avenues for exploring, comparing and purchasing products worldwide. Spl. yt, a smart contract protocol, aims improve the e-commerce system for buyers and sellers by automating functions currently performed by “middlemen” marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba. дальше »

2018-7-16 19:45


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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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The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name. дальше »

2018-7-13 17:16


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Bethesda exec says he’ll stop selling Skyrim ports when we stop buying them

Well, it seems the person behind the perpetually re-released Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has my number.  In an interview with GamesIndustry, Bethesda top dog Todd Howard addressed the common complaint that the company is perhaps a little eager to re-release Skyrim, and I have to admit the point is a good one: Even now, the amount of people who play Skyrim seven years later; millions of people every month are playing that game. дальше »

2018-7-12 00:24