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Will Bitcoin [BTC]’s big break be during the imminent financial meltdown?

OPINION: The financial crisis of 2008 is still fresh in the minds of those on Wall Street and those in the cryptocurrency space, albeit for very different reasons. While Wall Street is still reeling from the aftermath of the crisis, the cryptocurrency community indirectly exists due to the crisis. As timelessly engraved in the genesis […] дальше »

2018-7-23 13:12


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Coinbase RoundUp: Token Additions, SEC Acquisition, and FINRA Probe?

One of the first crypto unicorns in the space, Coinbase, has enjoyed the same volatility native to the sector it represents just this past week. Most notably, the firm announced the potential addition of five new cryptocurrencies, an odd (and apparently unnecessary) declaration regarding confirmation from the SEC and FINRA, and a tacit response from the Ripple community for not. дальше »

2018-7-23 04:00


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Some Crypto-Mining Operations Are Not What They Say They Are

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining has become a very competitive industry, and the amount of processing power hashing away to mine these digital assets is truly amazing. However over the years since the inception of GPU and ASIC mining, essentially when home mining turned into an industry, the cryptocurrency mining space has been riddled with fraudulent […] The post Some Crypto-Mining Operations Are Not What They Say They Are appeared first on Bitcoin News. дальше »

2018-7-22 18:35


Bitcoin [BTC] bashers list gets another addition with billionaire investor’s statements

It is a running joke among the Bitcoin [BTC] community that bull runs will ensue when prominent investors and players in the investment space bash it. The star-studded line-up of individuals who have spoken against the coin now has another addition in the form of billionaire investor Howard Marks. Marks’ firm, Oaktree Capital, reported that […] дальше »

2018-7-22 15:55


South Korean financial regulator to fit cryptocurrency innovation in its new structure

According to Forbes, the Financial Services Commision [FSC], South Korea’s financial regulatory authority is looking to develop the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. The FSC plans to do this by restructuring itself to accommodate the existence of the Financial Innovation Bureau and to ‘proactively respond to financial innovation in the fourth industrial revolution era’. In a […] дальше »

2018-7-22 06:28


Indian Central Bank Makes a Case Before Supreme Court Against Allowing Crypto Use

India’s central bank told the country’s supreme court on Friday that “allowing dealings in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin would encourage illegal transactions. ” Other crypto petitions being heard include one asking the government to “take emergency steps to restrain the sale and purchase of illegal cryptocurrencies. дальше »

2018-7-22 02:34


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


Hubble Space Astronomers Use AIKON’s CPU Cryptocurrency Tokens For Deep Space Images

The Space Telescope Science Institute (or STScI), Science Operations Center of the Hubble Space Telescope are using AIKON’s CPU Tokens to accelerate deep space research. Researchers at the Institute are using CPU Tokens to pay AIKON partner HADRON for their workers to categorize deep space images from the Hubble’s massive repository. AIKON is a company […] дальше »

2018-7-21 19:31


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Big Opportunity for Insurance Industry to Get into Bitcoin, Says Allianz

More and more insurance giants are considering covering cryptocurrency holders and businesses for theft of funds, as Allianz says the industry presents a “big opportunity. ” ‘More Relevant, Important And Prevalent’ Speaking to Bloomberg July 19, spokesman Christian Weishuber forecast rising acceptance and mainstream interest in cryptocurrency meant the insurance sector could make significant inroads in the space. дальше »

2018-7-21 17:00


Academic Research Reveal Most ICOs are not Decentralized, Ignore their Whitepapers

The University of Pennsylvania law school in its recent report said that most initial coin offerings (ICOs) to provide adequate security against insider trading or stick to their white paper promises A Recurring Decimal Its stale news that bad actors have always taken advantage of the largely unregulated nature of the crypto space to conduct […] The post Academic Research Reveal Most ICOs are not Decentralized, Ignore their Whitepapers appeared first on ZyCrypto. дальше »

2018-7-19 18:19


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Can SpaceBit’s Blockchain Decentralize Space Exploration?

Until recently, it was only nations that had the resources for space exploration. In 1973 private space missions were simply unthinkable. Who would bankroll the $25.4bn it cost the United States to launch the Apollo missions? The richest American at the time was thought to be Howard Hughes (certainly a man with the right ethos), […] The post Can SpaceBit’s Blockchain Decentralize Space Exploration? appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »

2018-7-19 18:06