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Serbian Nationals Defraud South Korean Businessman of Two Million Euros in Bitcoin Using Counterfeit Bills

Things have turned sour for a South Korean businessman involved in an offline peer-to-peer cryptocurrency scam. The businessman swapped his digital currency for euros that turned out to be fake. Details of the Scam A South Korean businessman who runs a cryptocurrency company in Singapore had Bitcoin worth approximately $2. дальше »

2018-8-20 23:00


3 Types of Cryptocurrency Cloud Mining Contracts Worth Looking Into

A lot of people have shown a great interest in cryptocurrency cloud mining. There are some drawbacks to embracing this business model, although it can turn out to be somewhat lucrative as well. Three main types of cloud mining services exist today, all of which have their own benefits and drawbacks. 3. Virtual Hosted Mining […] дальше »

2018-8-11 20:00


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Is Bitcoin Mining Going To Destroy The Planet?

Is mining Bitcoin worth the threat it poses our very existence? Whilst Bitcoin offers communities and society a chance to access a new technology and a form of value that is not regulated by the government, it’s production and mining does have a detrimental impact on the planet, yet, few people seem to recognise that this is the case, especially those scholars who are big on blockchain. дальше »

2018-8-10 06:00


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The Pentagon finally has an AI strategy — too little too late?

The US Department of Defense’s recently established Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) has finally debuted and will oversee the Pentagon’s AI strategy. Better late than never, right? After a couple of years’ worth of paperwork drills, Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan released a document at the end of June establishing the JAIC, and stating it would take the next 30 days to figure out what its national mission objectives and personnel needs are. дальше »

2018-8-9 19:52


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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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Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Highlights Shocking $15M Worth of Transactional Spam

Vitalik Buterin has spoken out on the topic of a mysterious congestion of transactions on the Ethereum network, of which he is the founder. Buterin estimated in a message posted on his Twitter account yesterday that the recent spate of ERC-20 smart contract transactions, which seemingly serve no purpose upon inspection, have cost the creators of […] Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Highlights Shocking $15M Worth of Transactional Spam was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. дальше »

2018-7-18 15:29