Bitcoin Is Plagued by an Insidious Flaw – But It’s Not What You Think

By CCN: Bitcoin has a crippling governance problem, but it’s not what you think it is. Technical solutions deftly manage consensus on the world’s most popular cryptocurrency network. But how will we deal with wealth inequality – and the power imbalance that inevitably accompanies it? To put it bluntly: Wealth inequality will not magically disappear in the new Bitcoin economy.

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Bloomcryto Interview with James Parker about Up Commerce in Expertfund’s Ecosystem

INTERVIEWERS: Thank you very much for joining us. We are here in Amsterdam and the first topic to be discussed is about the digital economy. Blockchain is the term that is heard everywhere. How do you feel about how the media is dealing with all of Blockchain and crypto now? James parker: It’s interesting because the mainstream media are trying to catch up in this area.

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The Dow Index is Ridiculously Dumb. It Should Have These Stocks Instead.

By CCN: The Dow Jones Industrial Average was originally designed as a stand-in for the broad U. S. economy. In theory, the 30 stocks that compose the Dow Jones Industrial Average represents the influence of various sectors over the economy, with each stock representing a major player in a given sector.

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Op Ed: 3 Reasons Why Crypto Has an Exchange Problem

While the Crypto Winter may be lingering with us into the spring, crypto exchanges are doing just fine. According to CoinMarketCap, there are now 255 major crypto exchanges.

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Jamie Dimon: U.S. Economy Has Failed Minorities and the Poor

CEO of JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon believes the U. S. economy systemically rolls over ethnic minority groups and economically disadvantaged people, making it difficult or impossible for them to gain economic footholds and compete fairly.

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Israeli Court Rules Against One-Size-Fits-All Bitcoin Ban by Bank

An Israeli court ruled on March 17, 2019, that banks can't enforce a blanket ban against all accounts linked to cryptocurrency. Instead, the court said, banks need to consider the specific type and scope of crypto-related activity before determining whether or not to open an account.

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Indian Supreme Court Gives Government Deadline to Reach Decision on Crypto Regulations

The Supreme Court of India made a decision on February 25, 2019, to present the government with an ultimatum: Develop crypto regulations within the next four weeks or the court will make its own judgement.

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Ten Years Later, a Reflection on Bitcoin’s Genesis and Satoshi’s Timing

October 31, 2008, and January 3, 2009. The two dates have cemented themselves with Promethean significance into Bitcoin’s lore. On the October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, a constitution of sorts for his revolutionary monetary system and its intrinsic currency.

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BitGo Joins Universal Protocol Alliance

The Goldman Sachs funded Crypto Custodial service BitGo has joined the Universal Protocol Alliance, it was announced yesterday. The Universal Protocol Alliance is a group of companies promoting the Universal Protocol Platform that enables interoperability across blockchains.

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Op Ed: It’s Time to Reject Mediocrity, #ExitFiat and Embrace Bitcoin

When the towers in New York fell, I became obsessed with economics. I wanted to follow the money to understand what happened on that dreadful day. During that time of inquiry, I found myself very interested in Austrian economic theory.

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IPSX Launches Global IP Address Marketplace to Solve a Billion Dollar Problem

The sharing economy is not limited to physical assets.

The post IPSX Launches Global IP Address Marketplace to Solve a Billion Dollar Problem appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Overstock.com CEO Acquires Stake in Blockchain Land Registry Startup

Overstock. com CEO Patrick Byrne has acquired a stake in blockchain startup, Medici Land Governance (MLG). Byrne purchased a 43 percent stake in the blockchain land registry in a private transaction.

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Details of One of Bitcoin’s Nastiest Bugs Yet

For well over a year, versions of Bitcoin Core — Bitcoin’s leading software implementation — contained a severe software bug. The bug was fixed with Bitcoin Core 0.

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Beverage.cash ICO

Beverage. cash is a decentralized solution whereby the real sector of economy and cryptoworld have been merged. The application has been developed to address the key problem of cryptocurrency price instability, and marries the trading process on an innovative platform with unique functions.

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Bitcoinist Partners With Cryptocurrency Lending Platform INLOCK

INLOCK, a lending platform for cryptocurrency holders, has partnered with Bitcoinist to help educate the public on the spendability problem and how crypto-collateralized loans can add stability to the global economy.

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Op Ed: Making Friends With Time in the Cryptocurrency Space

What follows is an open letter from Jimmy Zhong, co-founder and CEO of IOST, to his team members and shared with Bitcoin Magazine with permission. Recently, I’ve been thinking about an ultimate way of safely storing value — gold, Bitcoin, real estate and power all came to mind.

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5 Ways The Late Payment Economy Is Punishing Small Businesses

There are 5. 7 million SME’s (small and medium sized businesses) in the UK, making up 99% of all figures. Yet despite this momentous figure, all businesses are facing an ongoing problem: late payments.

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More Than a Ledger: How Blockchains Will Democratize Wealth

To Mark Pascall, co-founder of BlockchainLabs New Zealand (NZ) and president of the Blockchain Association NZ, the blockchain space is more than just a new technology layer, it’s a “fundamentally different way for organizations and societies to operate.

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G20: Cryptocurrencies are okay, blockchains are great, and money laundering is still a problem

G20 – an international economic consortium with 20 member states including China, France, Germany, Argentina, and Canada – has announced it believes cryptocurrencies pose no significant risk to global financial stability… but they could lead to a series of money laundering violations.

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PR: W12 – a Platform Raising New Generation of Smart Contracts – Winner at the World Blockchain Forum (NYC)

W12 offers a completely new approach to thedevelopment of blockchain technology,smart contracts and the crypto economy, the adoptionof which can massively affectexisting traditional infrastructure in the very near future.

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Nick Spanos’s Zap Jolts Real Estate With Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts

New York realtors looking to avoid hiccups in their commission payouts can now turn to blockchain-based smart contracts. The first real estate commission split was brokered earlier this summer in Manhattan’s ritzy SoHo neighborhood by New York-based Bapple Realty.

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Bringing IoT and Blockchain Applications Together to Avoid Human Error

ULedger and Fetch. ai have joined resources to tackle the problems caused by human error in today’s economy. Based in Boise, Idaho, ULedger is an international technology firm with offices in Kosovo, Italy and Austria.

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The Genesis Files: If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It

All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name.

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