2019-11-20 02:00 |
MakerDAO may be diversifying the assets it works with, but it has a long way to go to decentralize the power to make key decisions.
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Special thanks to Justin Drake, Karl Floersch, Hsiao-wei Wang, Barry Whitehat, Dankrad Feist, Kobi Gurkan and Zac Williamson for review Very recently, Ariel Gabizon, Zac Williamson and Oana Ciobotaru announced a new general-purpose zero-knowledge proof scheme called PLONK, standing for the unwieldy quasi-backronym “Permutations over Lagrange-bases for Oecumenical Noninteractive arguments of Knowledge”.
2019-9-24 04:03 | |
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If you think that virtual reality is something that relates exclusively to the field of games and entertainment, then you are deeply mistaken. Goldman Sachs predicts that by 2025, the VR industry will grow up to $ 80 billion.
2019-9-5 13:23 | |
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Last week, a good friend approached me with a question. The organization he works for is struggling to attract engineers for their technical team, and he was desperate to find ideas. As a developer myself, I appreciated that he came to me to understand what motivates technical minded people to consider switching jobs.
2019-8-22 12:37 | |
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A team of researchers recently developed a robotic exosuit that makes it easier to walk or run long distances. It could imbue average people with superhuman walking abilities, aid the disabled, and help soldiers on long marches.
2019-8-17 01:19 | |
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For investors in major cryptocurrencies, this month has seen some of the most febrile activity and best performance from the likes of Ethereum and Bitcoin for a long time. Just where will this ongoing bullish trend take Bitcoin in the near future? For Simon Peters – who works as an analyst for the online trading […]
2019-6-27 23:24 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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Things you can buy with bitcoin: AT&T’s services, airfare, pretty much anything using gift cards through Bitrefill, pizza, drugs (duh) and now, Indigenous Australian art.
2019-5-29 23:15 | |
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The Nest smart home ecosystem as we know it is dead. At its annual Google I/O developers conference last week, the search giant announced a broader restructuring of its smart home lineup that was long coming.
2019-5-13 14:03 | |
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Trigger warning: specialized mathematical topic Special thanks to Karl Floersch for feedback One of the more interesting algorithms in number theory is the Fast Fourier transform (FFT).
2019-5-14 04:03 | |
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Bitcoin has its fair share of mysteries; exactly how it works being one that most users will never understand. But by far the longest standing and most intriguing is the identity of Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
2019-5-7 03:00 | |
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Your first reaction is probably no, but you should reconsider, and here’s why. 911 call centers are overwhelmed and have changed significantly since their introduction 50 years ago. Today, a long wait time could prove fatal in a life or death situation.
2019-3-24 16:30 | |
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The adoption of cryptocurrency has long been a dream of many crypto assets, aiming to be accepted by the rest of the world for payments and other use cases. Now, the founder of XRPL Labs, Weitse Wind, wants to take a different approach to the adoption of the XRP token by adding it to WooCommerce. […]
2019-3-22 17:21 | |
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“The biggest problem I could think of was distribution. How do you share and educate both consumers and merchants on the power of bitcoin? I learned how much consumers loved earning and why merchants make decisions to adopt new technology.
2019-3-19 23:06 | |
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Cryptoraves, a company that is working on the tokenization of social media, had its bank account shut down last month by JP Morgan, not long after news of JPM Coin broke. Eventually, the crypto startup was told that they were working in a “prohibited industry,” but they couldn’t get more details than that.
2019-3-14 23:30 | |
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Weriz is a platform that builds a bridge between people trying to fulfill their daily needs and local businesses seeking active customers. For a long time, business directories, from simple browsable lists to more advanced map-based applications have been the dominant solution.
2019-2-19 17:33 | |
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The White House has been tagged with digital Bitcoin graffiti, thanks to a new augmented reality platform powered by cryptocurrency. Satoshi’s World allows anyone in the world to add text, images, and GIFs to real world settings for a small Bitcoin fee.
2019-2-11 15:07 | |
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Disney says it’s likely to take a massive $150 million hit to its bottom line as it works to beef up its array of streaming services, including the yet-to-launch Disney+. However, concerns remain that the company may be turning a blind eye to the impact of these losses over the long run as it seeks to supplant Netflix as the digital content king.
2019-2-7 23:29 | |
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Bitcoin users may, before long, be able to benefit from a trick called “Taproot. ” First proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor and former Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell, Taproot would expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy in doing so.
2019-1-25 01:19 | |
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Bitcoin is an open-source protocol that anybody can interact with. It is getting attention and attracting participation in different ways, whether it is through speculation, investing and sending money, all the way to contributing to what’s underneath the hood.
2019-1-16 01:14 | |
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CoinSpeaker What are VR, AR and… other Rs? The emergence of new technologies has long been transforming the development of mankind. VR, AR, MR, and all the possible variations of Rs are breaking into many areas of our lives.
2018-12-28 19:00 | |
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Minisketch is a new solution that’s trying to solve an old problem. Spearheaded by Blockstream co-founder Pieter Wuille, Bitcoin Core contributor and fellow Blockstream co-founder Gregory Maxwell, and Blockstream software engineer Gleb Naumenko, the open-source initiative is designed to achieve set reconciliation between the mempools of each full node.
2018-12-18 18:48 | |
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The holiday season is here. And even if crypto prices are on the coal heap, you can still have fun spreading some holiday bitcoin cheer. For the bitcoiners in your life, this could mean a crypto-related gift as a token of solidarity.
2018-12-12 23:22 | |
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As chairman and co-founder of the Social Alpha Foundation (SAF), Nydia Zhang has left a solid mark on the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, though, as a young art student at the University of Washington in 2011, blockchain was far from the direction she saw her life taking.
2018-12-6 18:13 | |
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In order to help more people understand “the other Casper” (Vlad Zamfir’s CBC Casper), and specifically the instantiation that works best for blockchain protocols, I thought that I would write an explainer on it myself, from a less abstract and more “close to concrete usage” point of view.
2018-12-6 04:03 | |
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The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) has been granted a license from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) required to operate a regulated blockchain exchange.
2018-11-23 23:44 | |
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If you’re an aspiring musician or audio gear-head, you’re going to need a mixer at some point. Usually, this comes long before you’re ready to start building a recording or production studio, and somewhere after you’ve squeezed every bit of fidelity out of your iPad’s built-in microphone.
2018-11-20 02:56 | |
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A five-person company dYdX recently raised $10 million from investors. The crypto-based company has developed a new margin trading protocol on the Ethereum network and allows people to create new financial products.
2018-10-22 17:59 | |
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Listen Here – https://soundcloud. com/cryptodaily/trx-wont-slow-down-check-out-trons-latest-announcements TRON and the TRON Foundation have made very exciting progress through the start of October and continue to impress the crypto community.
2018-10-11 18:00 | |
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The stability of Bitcoin has always been a bit shaky, however, over the past month or so, the leading crypto has been surprisingly… still. If you asked anyone earlier in the year why Bitcoin could never replace fiat currencies the first reason would most likely be due to its volatility and stability.
2018-10-9 15:30 | |
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Global professional services firm PwC has partnered with decentralized lending platform Cred to boost trust in the cryptocurrency space and bring in more traders by advancing stablecoin technology.
2018-10-8 21:30 | |
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Global professional services firm PwC has partnered with decentralized lending platform Cred to boost trust in the cryptocurrency space and bring in more traders by advancing stablecoin technology.
2018-10-10 21:30 | |
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This rather long meme, which has been circulating lately, makes fun of the views of Bitcoin supporters by listing commonly made statements and contrasting them with contradicting statements or developments.
2018-10-4 22:27 | |
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On September 23, 2018, the Bitcoin Foundation sent a letter to the French Parliament asking that they reject a new crypto asset amendment being proposed in the PACTE Bill, which deals with the growth and transformation of France’s businesses and the country’s employee savings.
2018-10-4 22:10 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these system to work, it comes with a significant downside: privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-25 19:47 | |
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As controversies surrounding Bitmain’s looming IPO spell uncertainty for the future well-being of the mining goliath, competitors are fast to move in on the manufacturer’s territory.
2018-9-21 01:04 | |
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Malware, a persistent thorn in the side of the internet’s wider community, has become an increasing concern for cryptocurrency users. A problem that comes in many forms, malicious software is leveraged by hackers to rob community members of their funds.
2018-9-18 23:37 | |
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Morgan Stanley is joining Wall Street’s race toward an institutional-friendly bitcoin derivative. According to anonymous sources reporting to Bloomberg, the financial institution is devising price return swaps tied to bitcoin.
2018-9-14 22:07 | |
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Crypto, charity and cycling. It’s an unlikely triad, but two fitness enthusiasts-turned-crypto philanthropists believe that, taken in combination, the three can drive positive change.
2018-9-12 21:42 | |
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The Lightning Network, the second-layer solution designed to make quick, cheap and easy Bitcoin payments, is maturing. But widespread adoption, still a long way off, will require plenty more participants.
2018-8-20 16:40 | |
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Special thanks to Emin Gun Sirer for review We’ve heard for a long time that it’s possible to achieve consensus with 50% fault tolerance in a synchronous network where messages broadcasted by any honest node are guaranteed to be received by all other honest nodes within some known time period (if an attacker has more than 50%, they can perform a “51% attack”, and there’s an analogue of this for any algorithm of this type).
2018-8-9 04:03 | |
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If you own a small business and want to spike the price of your stock, just stick blockchain in your name, because apparently it works. According to reports out this afternoon, Long Island Tea Corp, a company that produces bottles of flavoured iced tea, decided to change their name to ‘Long Blockchain Corp’ in December 2017.
2018-8-2 18:30 | |
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After five long months of working with South Carolina officials, Genesis Mining has been dropped from the cease and desist order it received back in March 2018 from the South Carolina Securities Division.
2018-7-28 02:37 | |
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“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.
2018-7-26 18:55 | |
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Special thanks to Eli ben Sasson for his kind assistance, as usual. Special thanks to Chih-Cheng Liang and Justin Drake for review. Trigger warning: math and lots of python div. foo { color: white; } div.
2018-7-22 04:03 | |
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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.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Coinbase is the perfect opportunity for consumers to trade across multiple platforms at once, as long as the investor specifically works with Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, or Bitcoin Cash. Right now, they are working towards adding other crypto tokens, according to CTO Balaji Srinivasan.
2018-7-7 10:34 | |
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Malware has been making the rounds in the Bitcoin [BTC] space, emerging with a very subtle approach. The malware in question is known as Cryptocurrency Clipboard Hijackers and works by taking over control of the Windows clipboard.
2018-7-4 10:16 | |
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The Digital Future Council made its public debut on June 18, 2018, at the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. With founding members from such organizations as IBM, Vice, CNN, Lego and Warner Bros.
2018-6-20 21:56 | |
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There is substantial controversy surrounding Tether, a cryptocurrency that claims to be pegged to the U. S. dollar. According to Tether, each Tether token is backed by one U.
2018-6-14 22:01 | |
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Ripple is raising awareness about the need for quantum-resistant cryptography to secure blockchain systems against potential future threats from quantum computing. Professor Massimiliano Sala, a renowned mathematician from the University of Trento in Italy, recently discussed the future of blockchain…
The Bitcoin (BTC) price has been roaming below the crucial $67,000 after it briefly touched an intraday high of around $67,600. BTC declined by 0.7% in the past 24 hours and is trading at $66,500 at the time of writing.…
MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen unveils NewStable and PureDAI to replace DAI, which has a $5.4 billion market cap. The post MakerDAO founder introduces new stablecoins: NewStable and PureDAI appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
ZkSync aims to empower users with a governance token airdrop, finalizing its community-led approach after the v24 upgrade in June. The post zkSync gears toward final upgrade, community eyes airdrop by end of June appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
FTM has gained 13% in the last week, and total value locked in Fantom briefly hit $200 million.
Several officers from the Indian Crime Branch, including an Inspector General of Police (IGP), are being probed by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with a Bitcoin scam. The SIT has issued a notice to Inspector General of Police…
Robinhoods European crypto branch launched Solana staking, offering roughly 5% APY at launch, slightly below Coinbase. The post Robinhood Crypto launches Solana staking with 5% APY for EU users appeared first on Crypto Briefing.