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4 Reasons Why Investors Avoid Decentralized Exchanges

Blockchain and cryptocurrency were originally envisioned as decentralized, community-oriented initiatives. Participants were intended to hold power over centralized (read: government) authority. As blockchain and cryptocurrency evolved and captured millions of investors along the way, trading gravitated toward centralized platforms. дальше »

2018-8-17 16:00


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AMA With Origin Team Reveals Plans for Decentralized Sharing Economy

Matt Liu, Josh Fraser and former PayPal head Yu Pan want to bring the blockchain to the sharing economy. The trio is devising a platform with an emphasis on inclusive, peer-to-peer service hubs designed to decentralize the same consumer cost-friendly business models that have made companies like Airbnb, Uber and Lyft so popular in recent years. дальше »

2018-8-16 23:25


6 Things People Take for Granted When Using Centralized Crypto Exchanges

In the world of cryptocurrency, centralized exchanges are still a very common sight. That is a bit unusual, especially in an industry where decentralization is the main selling point. Even so, there are several positive aspects of centralized exchanges, especially during these early stages of the cryptocurrency industry. 6. High Volume Even though there have […] дальше »

2018-8-12 17:00


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Mastodon to Accept Bitcoin As More Users Unfollow Twitter

Decentralized social network Mastodon is seeing major interest from Bitcoin users as Twitter fails to act on botnets, censorship and account blocks. ‘We Can Find A Way To Make It Work’ Mastodon, which has a user interface and features similar to Twitter but runs entirely without centralized control, has attracted 1,300 cryptocurrency users to its dedicated Bitcoin ecosystem in days. дальше »

2018-8-10 20:00


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Sparkswap Promises to Combine Centralized and Decentralized Exchange Functionality

Litecoin creator Charlie Lee is a hard man to please, so when he endorses a crypto project, people generally sit up and take note. On August 2, 2018, he retweeted a tweet announcing the launch of Sparkswap, a revolutionary new method of trading crypto across blockchains with all the speed advantages of a centralized exchange, but without any of the. дальше »

2018-8-10 07:50


What is Ethereum ERC725? Self-Sovereign Identity Management on the Blockchain

Decentralized applications (dApps) are one of the most promising applications of blockchain technology, holding the potential to completely replace centralized third-party operated platforms. User identity management, however, remains critical to any dApps and is currently managed by “trusted” third parties—a problem the ERC725 identity standard aims to solve. дальше »

2018-8-8 14:00


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Ripple’s XRP the least Loser in the Last 7 Days & Daily Life Uses

The San Francisco based crypto-startup Ripple, since its debut, is close connected with deviation of traditional cryptocurrency philosophy. The delivering of traditional banking infrastructure solutions for efficiency, the centralized nature of XRP and the team’s comments in favor of the fiat standard has made the community engage a hate sentiment towards the coin. дальше »

2018-8-5 12:23


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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