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Cornucopia Blockchain-based IPO Investment Platform Gets New Chief Market Strategist

Cornucopia, a blockchain project focused on making it easy for investors to acquire pre-IPO shares of their favorite firms have now hired tZero’s Joe Cammarata to their team. Cammarata will now function as the Chief Market Strategist of the platform, bringing with him years of experience in the traditional finance world into Cornucopia. дальше »

2018-8-14 01:30


Investment Banks challenged by blockchain upstarts

This combination of available financial data and new possibilities for blockchain-driven efficiencies have made the climate ripe for the disruption of traditional investment banks. “Accenture has estimated that some major investment banks could make a whopping $10 billion in efficiency savings by utilizing blockchain technology,” explains Thomas Levene, founder of Best Blockchain Solutions Consultancy. Thus, дальше »

2018-7-31 21:53


22 Global Fiat Currencies Paired with Ripple’s XRP in Crypto Exchanges

Ripple and its followers are diehards, always supporting the growth of the XRP Token, especially number of pairing it has with traditional fiat currencies. The company’s followers are even more excited today with a massive listing of nearly two dozen new pairings with fiat from around the world. The development is meant to help the […] дальше »

2018-7-30 22:42


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A New EU Report Suggests Banks Could Indulge in Financial Misconduct to Stay Away From Cryptos

A new report from an EU department shows that all is not well in the fintech sector as competition intensifies between traditional finance and crypto finance. The report prepared by the Police Department for Economic, Scientific, and Quality of Life Policies on the recommendation of the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON). дальше »

2018-7-23 17:19


Why trading crypto is becoming a millionaire’s game — And how to stop it

Cryptocurrency trading is an interesting area. It’s a totally new concept, a way of trading that seems to shake off a lot of the restraints of more traditional finance. Since its inception, crypto has been more or less open to everyone, allowing people without any significant financial background to achieve massive success from virtually nowhere. […] дальше »

2018-7-22 01:27


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


Vaultbank Adds Free Trading To A Merged Stock And Digital Assets Platform

Vaultbank has announced the addition of free stock trading to its forthcoming launch in an effort to expand its goal of converging traditional investments and digital assets. This new feature, advanced by a strategic partnership, is in addition to existing features that will allow trading of utility and security tokens. With this merging of services […] дальше »

2018-7-20 11:10


BX.BET ICO

BX is a blockchain-based betting and prediction market ecosystem, designed to change the way the world bets. With BX, we are creating a decentralized betting exchange without a middleman and centralized structures, that has the ability to disrupt and redefine the traditional betting industry by offering its users a unique and enhanced experience. дальше »

2018-7-16 21:37


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Scientists genetically modified gerbils to hear light through an implant

A team of German scientists recently developed a spectacular new cochlear implant that uses light to simulate sound. So far it’s only been tested on gerbils, but the results are promising. Cochlear implants are a decades-old invention that uses electricity to stimulate or bypass deadened auditory nerves in order to trick the brain into “hearing” something. дальше »

2018-7-12 18:46


Stasis’ New Stable Coin Aims to be ‘The Backbone of the Crypto-Economy’

Malta-based cryptocurrency company Stasis is aiming to combine the cryptocurrency market’s flexibility with the reliability of traditional currencies. According to the Stasis website, the company’s new coin, EURS, is advertised to be a “collateralized stable coin designed to become the backbone of the crypto-economy. дальше »

2018-7-13 18:03