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The Central Bank in Vietnam thinks cryptocurrency should be banned.
The proposal was introduced by the country’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) after the SBV announced that cryptocurrency use within Vietnam was not a “lawful means of payment” this past October. origin »
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Google Translate glitch predicts the second coming of Christ.
Google’s AI appears to be using its Translate platform to spread some good old-fashioned doomsday prophecy. We have no way of confirming that the world isn’t coming to an end, but we’re going to go ahead and say it’s a glitch. origin »
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Bitcoin’s winning streak is at risk after intraday’s decline..
After rising as much as 3% on the day, the price of a single bitcoin BTCUSD, -0. 99% last changed hands at $7,352. origin »
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Wells Fargo files a ‘Data element tokenization management’ patent.
Wells Fargo and Company, an American multinational financial company has filed the ‘Data element tokenization management’ patent. The inventors of the patent are Phillip H. and Jeffery J and the patent was filed on the United States Patent and Trademark Office on 17th July 2018. origin »
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Cloud Mining Platform HashFlare Stops Services, Disables Equipment on SHA-256 Contracts.
Cryptocurrency cloud mining service HashFlare has halted mining services on current SHA-256 contracts due to difficulties with generating profits
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Google's Open Source Data Transfer Project Promises Portability.
It’s an impressive step forward but seems to ignore the major concerns of the last few years: privacy and security.
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Apple Sea Shops Presently Take Bitcoin through Douche Amounts Medium Onebuy.
South Korean electronics titan Samsung has announced that its Baltic stores now accept multiple cryptocurrencies as a means of payment via the blockchain-based CopPay platform, according to a July 20 Medium post. origin »
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Bitcoin Optech Proclaims steps to check BTC Scalability Issue.
A team of Bitcoin (BTC) engineers has announced the launch of the Bitcoin Operations Technology Group (Bitcoin Optech) addressing the problem of Bitcoin’s scalability, according to their statement published July 20. origin »
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Vietnam Central Bank Agrees To Suspend Import Of Cryptocurrency Mining Machines.
The gear has come under scrutiny by the State Bank of Vietnam and the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
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$8k in near, 4 Blocks Anticipate Reassured Bitcoin Bulls.
With no price pullback happening in the wake of Tuesday’s sudden surge, the technical charts indicate bitcoin could soon close in on this key psychological benchmark. As the trading range tightens and the technical indicators regain composure, the probability of bullish continuation increases. origin »
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5 Fierce Facts About Cybersecurity You Probably Don’t Want to Hear.
It’s hard work running a business. It almost makes you ache for a simpler time when all you had to worry about was shoplifters stealing your goods. Now you’ve got confidential data, trade secrets, and, of course, plenty of money at stake. origin »
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Steve Bannon To Release “Utility Tokens for the Populist Movement”.
Steve Bannon, former chief strategist to U. S. President Donald Trump and one of the masterminds behind the tactics that led Trump to win the elections, confirmed in an interview with CNBC that he is working on the creation of his own cryptocurrency. origin »
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Ethereum [ETH]’s Vitalik Buterin calls out spambots, again.
On 19th July, Vitalik Buterin, the Co-Founder of Ethereum, tweeted about the prevalent bots’ intrusion on Twitter handles related to cryptocurrency. He basically referred to the feature present in almost all Ethereum giveaway pages that have a slider with the caption ‘Left Ethereum’. origin »
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UK Police Convert BTC Spoils from Money Launderer Hiding Marijuana Outfit’s Profits.
UK police convert BTC to pound after seizure from money launderer.
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Samsung stores accepts Cryptocurrencies.
News On Friday, Samsung stores in the Baltic States have announced they will be accepting seven different cryptocurrencies for merchandise. Samsung Stores in Three Baltic States Accept Cryptocurrencies The platform Coppay is a European fintech firm that offers payment gateways for cryptocurrency paying customers throughout 31 merchant locations. Now the company has announced that Samsung origin »
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Limbo and Inside fill a neglected niche in the Switch library.
After playing both Inside and Limbo on the Nintendo Switch, I’ve com3 to the realization that the handheld needs more games with less color. Tiny person in a big world Limbo and Inside are the only games thus far made by indie studio Playdead. origin »
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Altcoins are struggling but bitcoin is holding major gains.
July 20: Bitcoin (BTC) has split off from other top cryptocurrencies and shows markedly more resilience in holding on to gains secured in the major upswing that kicked off earlier this week. Market visualization from Coin360 As Coin360 data shows, the top coin is an island of green, while most major alts are struggling to origin »
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Coinbase Reportedly Secures $20 Billion Hedge Fund Through Its Prime Brokerage Services.
Coinbase has reportedly attracted a $20 bln hedge fund on its custody service, shortly after denying its own report of being approved for trading securities by the SEC
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Bank Broker TP Icap Eyes Entry into Cryptocurrency Sector.
Interdealer broker TP Icap, one of the world’s largest institutions within the financial, energy, and commodities markets, is about to approach virtual currencies. It has set up a working group for the purpose of analyzing the best way to enter the burgeoning market and ecosystem. origin »
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Billionaire Ken Griffen Calls Cryptocurrencies “A Solution In Search of a Problem”.
Despite the recent market upturn, billionaire Ken Griffen, Founder of Citadel, remains extremely skeptical towards cryptocurrencies. In an interview with CNBC published this morning, July 18th, Griffen stated that there was, “No need for cryptocurrencies,” adding that “they are a solution in search of a problem. origin »
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Ripple engineer says, InterLedger Protocol can “pay for a milliliter of beer”.
Ripple engineer Evan Schwartz, the Co-Creator of the InterLedger Protocol [ILP] and smart contract platform Codius, spoke at the CSAIL Initiative Launch Webcast recently. He elaborated upon the role that the InterLedger Protocol played in realizing the Internet of Value [IoV]. origin »
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Dash (DASH) Latest News and Future Price Predictions.
With the crypto-prices struggling to keep their bullish pace for longer then a couple of days, traders are taking the hit. However, even with Bitcoin being in the red for the last 24-hours Dash surprised the market today. origin »
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Fortune introduces more cryptocurrency leaders in its.
Fortune Magazine published its regular "40 under 40" rating which gathered the most influential young people in business all around the world. This year the list included Pavel Durov, Telegram cofounder. origin »
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Newly Launched Bitcoin Optech Initiative Aims to Address BTC Scalability Issue.
A group of developers has launched the Bitcoin Optech project in order to solve BTC scaling and high transaction fees issues
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Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, EOS, Litecoin, Cardano, Stellar, IOTA, TRON: Price Analysis, July 20.
Most major coins have gained significantly over the past few days, but are we out of the woods yet? Let’s look at the charts to see whether we have hit a bottom or it’s just a dead cat bounce
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Swytch Incentivizes Renewable Energy Usage, Ongoing Trials Promising.
The excessive use of fossil fuels forms one of the most significant contributors to climate change since the past decade, and with the overexpansion of cities and ever-growing production demands from consumers, the environment is primed for an unsustainable crisis. origin »
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CoinMarketCap Announces Changes to Counter Fake Volume Concerns.
CoinMarketCap explained the difficulties in offering volume data on Thursday, but added it would incorporate new features to reduce this. origin »
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Bitcoin Holds the Week’s Major Gains as Other Altcoins Struggle.
Bitcoin (BTC) has split off from other top cryptos and shows more resilience in holding on to gains won in the major upswing that kicked off earlier this week
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Indian Supreme Court Heard Crypto Petitions Today – RBI Ban Stays.
India’s Supreme Court heard the petitions against the crypto banking ban by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today. After hearing some arguments from both sides, the court decided to set another hearing date, allowing some of the regulators involved to respond to the petitions. origin »
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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. origin »
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A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis.
Here is a file that contains data, extracted from geth, about transaction fees in every block between 4710000 and 4730000. For each block, it contains an object of the form: { "block":4710000, "coinbase":"0x829bd824b016326a401d083b33d092293333a830", "deciles":[40,40. origin »
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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. origin »
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STARKs, Part II: Thank Goodness It's FRI-day.
Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help and explanations, and Justin Drake for reviewing In the last part of this series, we talked about how you can make some pretty interesting succinct proofs of computation, such as proving that you have computed the millionth Fibonacci number, using a technique involving polynomial composition and division. origin »
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The Triangle of Harm.
The following is a diagram from a slide that I made in one of my presentations at Cornell this week: </img> If there was one diagram that could capture the core principle of Casper’s incentivization philosophy, this might be it. origin »
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A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits.
Looks like it’s blockchain split season again. For background of various people discussing the topic, and whether such splits are good or bad: Power laws and network effects (arguing the BTC/BCC split may destroy value due to network effect loss): https://medium. origin »
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On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations.
One kind of token model that has become popular among many recent token sale projects is the “network medium of exchange token”. The general pitch for this kind of token goes as follows. We, the developers, build a network, and this network allows you to do new cool stuff. origin »
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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. origin »
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Blockcloud ICO.
Blockcloud is a service-centric blockchain architecture, which leverages a service-driven communication paradigm to support mobility and scalability. We design a new consensus mechanism and en efficient ledger structure to provide trust, security and incentive in a decentralized manner. origin »
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Brian Kelly on Bitcoin [BTC]’s price rally and Stellar [XLM]’s overtake of Litecoin [LTC].
On July 20th, the CNBC Fast Money panel discussed Bitcoin’s massive rally this week with Brian Kelly, the Founder and CEO of the financial firm BKCM LLC. Kelly also conveyed his thoughts on Stellar overtaking Litecoin on the cryptocurrency rankings recently. origin »
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Vietnam Central Bank Backs Call for a Ban on Cryptocurrency Miner Imports.
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV); the country’s central bank, has adopted the Finance Minister’s call for a prohibition on the importation of cryptocurrency mining rigs. SBV Sides with MoF and MoIT In June 2018, Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) called for a ban on the importation of cryptocurrency mining rigs. Considering that cryptocurrencies are origin »
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Bitcoin (Almost) Everywhere: 5 Crypto Debit Cards Worth Checking Out.
Mass, mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies might take a route few original cadres of developers and enthusiasts imagined — major payment processing, plastic debit cards. They’re incredibly handy for those wishing to use crypto while merchant adoption works itself out. origin »
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Coinbase Crypto Exchange Creates Political Action Committee (PAC).
The cryptocurrency platform and exchange Coinbase has decided to build up a Political Action Committee known as PAC. The information has been revealed on Friday by the U. S. Federal Election Commission. origin »
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DLTs For All: Apollon Enables Businesses To Utilize Blockchain Technology to Enhance Revenue Streams.
Apllon Foundation believes in the free flow of value through blockchain, giving retail and other businesses the opportunity to take advantage of the decentralized technology. July 21st, 2018, Location: Blockchain technology without doubt is a game changer in the modern, cut throat competition-based world. origin »
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Cryptojacking Becomes Less Popular Due to Falling Cryptocurrency Prices, Report Claims.
Cryptocurrency malware is a thriving business among online criminals. Hundreds of threats still exist, and this trend will not be slowing down anytime soon. Even so, it seems the era of cryptocurrency mining malware is nearing an end, primarily due to low cryptocurrency prices. origin »
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Hashflare Drops Bitcoin Mining Contracts As Profitability Dwindles.
Hashflare, one of the most prominent cloud mining service, recently made an announcement that it would begin to turn off their SHA-256 miners starting on July 20th, as a result of rapidly declining profits. origin »
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LiverPool First Climate-Positive City.
The Liverpool City Council (LCC) announced it will be using blockchain tech to mitigate the city’s climate impact, local news outlet edie. net reported July 19. On its way to a 110 percent offset, edie. origin »
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Tron (TRX) Ecosystem Fortified With TronLink.
To stand out among equals, Tron continues to add myriads of developments and partnerships. One very noticeable progress that has been added to Tron ecosystem is the TronLink, an extension that gives room for DApps like Ethereum’s Cryptokitties to survive on Tron blockchain. origin »
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From Positive Regulation to Ponzi Comparisons: What Went On at US Congress Crypto Hearings.
Here’s what went on at the recent US Congress hearings regarding crypto: from calls for positive regulation to a crypto ban suggestion and obligatory “Ponzi schemes” comparisons
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XRP [XRP] to be added by Wirex, speculations of SBI partnership come into play.
According to recent reports, Wirex Wallet is considering XRP [XRP] to their lineup of offered cryptocurrencies. Wirex is a service provider that offers cryptocurrency wallets tied to Visa and Mastercard services for easier use. origin »
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Copyright Troll Law Firm Broke Copyright Law, Disciplinary Board Finds.
So-called copyright trolling in the file-sharing space involves copyright holders claiming their rights have been infringed before heading to court to demand the identities of subscribers behind IP addresses. origin »
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