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Barclays, Citigroup and other major banks register for a testing block

Financial News reported on July 27 that LedgerConnect, the lovechild project of foreign exchange processing giant CLS and tech mogul IBM, is in trials. Bridge Between New and Existing Technologies LedgerConnect attempts to provide a comprehensive platform in order to further incentivize banks to take advantage of blockchain projects. The project is designated to deliver easy дальше »

2018-8-1 09:07


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Amazon Partners with Manifold to Develop Serverless Blockchain Resources

According to a press release on July 24, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it was partnering with Manifold Technology to offer serverless blockchain-based services. AWS and Manifold Technology Combine Forces Born in 2014, Manifold Technology is a company that focuses on developing next-generation blockchain solutions that can overcome existing challenges with implementation of new blockchain projects. дальше »

2018-7-27 03:00


Top S. Korean Telephone Company Reveals Blockchain Network

State-owned KT Corporation, South Korea’s largest telephone company, has announced the launch of its blockchain-powered commercial network. The firm has built a blockchain layer on top of its existing nationwide network in order to make it “more secure and transparent,” according to an article by The Korea Herald published Tuesday, July 24. The news outlet дальше »

2018-7-25 00:32


Bitcoin (BTC) ETF Hype Could Be A Whale Ploy To Lower Altcoin Prices Before The Next Rally

Bitcoin (BTC) is up today against most altcoins, trading at a price of $7,700 as shown by the daily BTC/USD chart above. It seems to have met resistance short term and the price might pull back short term, but a strong FOMO for Bitcoin (BTC) is clearly visible as investors refuse to sell even under overbought conditions. дальше »

2018-7-23 18:00


EkkBaz ICO

EkkBaz will simplify B2B interactions and expand the earning potential of millions of traditional, community-based grocery store owners in the FMCG industry around the world with an omnichannel approach by utilizing the existing blockchain, artificial intelligence, social and collaborative technologies in an easy-to-use mobile interface. дальше »

2018-7-22 20:34


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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


Federal Reserve Chairman: Cryptocurrencies Are Not A Threat To The Existing Financial System, Crime And Consumer Protection Are Concerns

According to Bloomberg, Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve Chairman, in a testimony before the House of Financial Services Committee, confidently stated that the cryptocurrency industry is currently not a threat to the existing financial system. дальше »

2018-7-20 20:46


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