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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


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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


Binance is One-Year-Old, Celebrates by Announcing a Tiered Fee Discount Program

The cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance has announced a new loyalty program for its users. The news coincides with them reducing the BNB discount rate as per their white paper. Binance Reduce BNB Discounts, Introduce New Fee Structure Since their launch this time last year, Binance offered its users unique savings if they used their own. дальше »

2018-7-19 21:00


Mastercard Files Patent to Link Fiat and Cryptocurrency Transactions

Payment titan Mastercard was awarded a patent for developing a method of linking cryptographic forms of money to fiat currency accounts. Mastercard Aims to Augment Cryptocurrency Adoption Granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on July 17, 2018, the patent details a structure that manages “fractional reserves of blockchain currency. дальше »

2018-7-19 22:00


IBM stays strong with the blockchain juggernaut, releases a new stable coin

On 17th July, International Business Machines [IBM] announced the launch of Stronghold USD, a cryptocurrency-USD pair that is created on the Stellar blockchain structure. Financial institution Stronghold announced on their Medium blog that they have collaborated with IBM to “explore uses for Stronghold USD within blockchain business networks on the IBM Blockchain platform”. Stronghold’s tweet about the […] дальше »

2018-7-18 15:24


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Promoted: The Future of Online Shopping Is Powered by Spl.yt — A Decentralized E-Commerce Protocol

As a rapidly growing business sector, e-commerce continues to open up new avenues for exploring, comparing and purchasing products worldwide. Spl. yt, a smart contract protocol, aims improve the e-commerce system for buyers and sellers by automating functions currently performed by “middlemen” marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba. дальше »

2018-7-16 19:45


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Crypto miners get updated power rate structure approved by NY state officials.

New York state regulators have approved a new electricity rate scheme for cryptocurrency miners that will allow them to negotiate contracts, Bloomberg reported July 12. According to Bloomberg, several months ago the state of New York gave permission to 36 municipal power authorities to charge crypto miners more than other consumers. The Massena municipal utility дальше »

2018-7-13 06:31


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Big Changes Ahead At Ripple

Ripple have announced two big changes within their staff structure that could well see some of Ripples operations take on a new direction. According to a recent post by Ripple, David Schwartz, the former Chief Cryptographer at Ripple has been appointed the new role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Kahina Van Dyke has been appointed the role of Senior Vice President, Business and Corporate Development. дальше »

2018-7-12 08:00


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Facebook Reshuffle Structure To Further Compliment Blockchain Research

Reports out today suggest that social media giants Facebook have embarked on a major structural reshuffle in order to enhance their new blockchain research project. We now know that Facebook have established a blockchain research working group in order to investigate and research the implications of blockchain technologies both within Facebook and within the wider community. дальше »

2018-7-6 17:30