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Queensland Backs Cryptocurrency Point-of-Sale Project for Tourism

The Queensland government in Australia is backing a cryptocurrency point-of-sale system that officials believe will help boost tourism throughout the area. Thus far, they have given over $8 million in Australian dollars ($6 million USD) to roughly 70 different companies that will work to inspire innovation and create new ideas within the region’s travel space. дальше »

2018-8-2 00:27


This Berlin Startup is Disrupting Traditional VC Funding Through Tokenised Equity

Traditional venture capital (VC) funding is often plagued with long and complicated processes, making it difficult for company founders to connect with investors. For one company, that is creating the world’s first decentralised stock exchange in conjunction with Binance and the Malta Stock Exchange, it doesn’t have to be that way. дальше »

2018-7-31 01:00


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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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Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Plays Down Crypto ETFs, Calls for Actual Adoption

Vitalik Buterin, founder of the second largest blockchain and the second most valuable cryptocurrency in the world, Ethereum, doesn’t shy away from expressing his thoughts to the world. His most recent tweetstorm was focused on cryptocurrency ETFs, which he thinks are just a way to boost prices and not encourage real adoption. дальше »

2018-7-30 19:34


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China Leads the way in Government Blockchain Adoption as Xiongan Signs MOU with ConsenSys

The Chinese city of Xiongan is set to become the site of a groundbreaking blockchain deployment program, the first of its kind anywhere in the world. According to the South China Morning Post report on July 23, the new blockchain development and deployment scheme is the product of a new partnership between Xiongan and global blockchain development company, ConsenSys. дальше »

2018-7-27 09:00


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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


This Silicon Valley-Backed Blockchain Startup Wants to Become the Wikipedia of Data

DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others. дальше »

2018-7-21 20:14


This Silicon Valley Backs Blockchain Startup Wants to Become the Wikipedia of Data

DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others. дальше »

2018-7-20 20:14


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Schnorr on its Way to Become Bitcoin’s Biggest Improvement Since SegWit

Bitcoin is close to achieving a new improvement proposal. Known as Schnorr, this unique technology has been cataloged by several analysts as Bitcoin’s Biggest improvement Since SegWit. Despite not having much hype during the early stages of its development, the slow but steady work of Pieter Wuille, an influential personality in the Bitcoin ecosystem, bore […] The post Schnorr on its Way to Become Bitcoin’s Biggest Improvement Since SegWit appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-7-18 19:45