How Bitcoin’s Leading Lightning Implementations Are Expanding Functionality

Developers behind leading Lighting Network firms LND, CLN and LDK described how they’re pushing Layer 2 forward at Bitcoin 2022.

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Gaming Platform OP Games Raises $8.6m To Bridge Game Developers To Web 3.0

OP Games, a startup that enables game developers to monetize their work using Web 3.0, raised $8.6 million of seed funding. Leading blockchain venture capital firms participated...

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Alchemy Launches Product to Help Developers Monitor Blockchain Apps

Launched Thursday, Alchemy Monitor has already been put to use by crypto firms such as 0x, MyEtherWallet, Lucid Sight and Zerion.

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Sri Lanka names firms to work on blockchain KYC system

Sri Lanka’s central bank shortlisted its choices for developers who will work on its...

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3 Blockchain Firms, iExec, IoTeX, and R3, join Linux Foundation’s Privacy-Focused Consortium

The CCC was launched in late 2019 by the Linux Foundation to bring together developers with a frequent need for data privacy to create confidential computing solutions. The CCC employs a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technologies.

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Blockchain infrastructure platform Blockdaemon raises $5.5M

Blockdaemon, a blockchain infrastructure platform for node management serving institutions and developers, today announced a strategic funding round of $5. 5 million from leading venture capital (VC) firms focused on blockchain technology.

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Big Tech Signs Rare Open Source Pledge to Boost Supplies During COVID

Major tech firms are opening their patents to allow developers to build much needed tools during the coronavirus crisis.

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Bitcoin dev Gregory Maxwell says people obsess far too much about 51% attack

“I think people obsess far too much about “51%”[attack]– it has some kind of attractive mystery to it that distracts people,” said Gregory Maxwell, Blockstream co-founder and one of Bitcoin’s most prominent developers.

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Cryptocurrency Projects Are Upping Their Privacy Game

What you do with your digital currency ought to be nobody else’s business. Unfortunately, law enforcement, regulators, blockchain forensics firms and other opponents of civil liberties are constantly seeking to usurp this basic human right.

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There Are Now More Ways Than Ever to Invest in Crypto

Bitcoin’s recent price boom has spiked interest in crypto, hailing a new wave of adoption that creates a kind of snowball effect. The current bull run likely stems, at least in part, from the news that big tech firms are increasingly moving towards crypto.

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A Group of Heavyweight Crypto Traders Wants to Blacklist Unapproved Counterparties

A group of institutional cryptocurrency traders is calling for the creation of a blacklist of counterparties known to revoke trades and engage in criminal activity, as reported by Bloomberg on May 9, 2019.

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J.P. Morgan to Expand Its Blockchain Involvement and Launch Sandbox for Developers

The global banking giant intends to expand its use of the shared ledger technology, while inviting fintech firms to experiment with its DLT platform J. P. Morgan bank has been actively following the recent fintech trends.

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AhrvoDEEX ICO

AhrvoDEEX is a peer-to-peer decentralized equity exchange that enables profitable trading by using multifactor ranking systems and deep learning algorithms that create smart equity scores and price targets to streamline the decision-making process.

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PARIS BLOCKCHAIN SUMMIT

THE MAJOR INTERNATIONAL EVENT DEDICATED TO CRYPTOCURRENCIES & BLOCKCHAIN January 31st & February 1st 2019 All crypto sphere arrived in Paris!  Paris Blockchain Summit will gather international key players of the industry well-known influencers, investors, government representatives, professional investors, blockchain developers, law firms and service providers.

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Increasing Blockchain Dev Salaries May Come From Demand, Not Higher Crypto Activities

According to a recent survey published by Janco Associates blockchain developers have encountered a salary increase for their work and services rendered to companies and technology firms. As the blockchain industry grows and there are more companies in the space, the demand for blockchain developers increased. In the last six months, the annual pay for […]

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New Janco Associates Survey Shows Blockchain Developer Salaries Increased During 2018

According to a recent survey released by Janco Associates blockchain developers have experienced a salary increase for their work and services provided to companies and technology firms. As the blockchain industry grows and there are more companies in the space, the demand for blockchain developers increased. In the last six months, the annual pay for […]

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Ethereum (ETH) Blockchain Developers Could Look to Block ASIC Mining on the Network

It seems that Ethereum developers could soon implement a new algorithm that would block ASIC miners from participating in the network. However, the new proposal has to be tested and reviewed before being implemented.

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Op Ed: Cryptocurrency’s Unrealized Opportunities for U.S. Tax Professionals

The market for cryptocurrency tax services is growing rapidly, and it is providing forward-thinking tax professionals with an opportunity to capture oversized profits.

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Wilshire Phoenix Is Building a Team and a Product to Onboard the Next Wave of Crypto Investors

While developers continue to build out the infrastructure of the crypto economy, many others are turning the bear market into ground zero in preparations for the next bull run. In their Q3 report, for instance, Grayscale investments described this inflow of institutional money pouring in and making positions in the market.

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Engineers are Leaving Silicon Valley Firms to Crypto; Sign of Demand

In recent months, an increasing number of engineers and developers announced that they are leaving established Silicon Valley tech companies in search for new opportunities in the world of blockchain and crypto.

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Monero (XMR) Slashes Transaction Fees with new “Bulletproof” Technology

Major privacy coin Monero (XMR) may now have the lowest transaction fee of 2 cents, according to a tweet by Coinmetrics. io, one of the major Crypto asset Analytics firms. Developers of the cryptocurrency have confirmed the reduced transaction fee is due to “bulletproofs”, a hardfork of Monero that was launched on 18 October.

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Asia Israel Blockchain Association (AIBA): Leading Crypto Community?

What Is Asia Israel Blockchain Association? As the name suggests, AIBA is a community of startups, developers, firms, hobbyists and all other members of the blockchain fraternity from Israel and the larger Asian continent.

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Audits and Quality Assurance: Patching the Holes in Smart Contract Security

On July 10, 2018, news broke that cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized exchange Bancor was hit with a hack. A wallet the Bancor team used to update the protocol’s smart contracts was infiltrated, and the $23.

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“Eating Their Lunch:” Blockchain Upstarts Challenge Investment Banks

Access to personal financial data and the emergence of blockchain technology have been the catalyst for a revolution in the banking sector. At the start of this year, banks within the European Union were ordered by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to grant customers access to their personal data.

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IBM, Barclays and Citigroup join the Financial Blackhawe App Store

LedgerConnect runs partly on a permissioned blockchain based on IBM’s blockchain platform and enables accessing DLT-based services in areas such as know-your-customer processes, sanctions screening, collateral management, and derivatives post-trade processing.

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This Silicon Valley-Backed Blockchain Startup Wants to Become the Wikipedia of Data

DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others.

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This Silicon Valley Backs Blockchain Startup Wants to Become the Wikipedia of Data

DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others.

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Dirt Protocol Raises $3 Million to Create A Decentralized Information Verification Platform

According to TechCrunch, Dirt Protocol, a platform that uses blockchain technology to verify information, raised $3 million in seed funding from some venture firms and angel investors. Dirt Protocol Provides the Tools For Developers to Build their Databases Venture Beat reported that Dirt Protocol is creating a “Wikipedia for structured data.

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A Nuanced Look At Crypto Assets as Securities In Light of SEC Comments

On June 14, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) director of corporate finance made waves in the cryptocurrency space when he commented at Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit: Crypto that ether is not a security.

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Overclock Blockchain Labs Collaborate with Packet to Launch the Akash Network MVP

The Overclock team has announced the strategic partnership with Packet to release the Akash Network MVP on Packet’s bare metal servers. Akash is a blockchain-powered marketplace for cloud computing With Akash, firms can make extra income by selling free space on their servers to developers in need of cost-efficient alternatives to Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

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Proposed Regulations Could Cause Major Shifts in Canadian Crypto Businesses

Canada’s government has released draft regulations for “virtual currencies” with a consultation period of 90 days, saying that proposed regulatory changes could mean a loss of $60 million over 10 years for businesses that deal in cryptocurrencies but will improve Canada’s international reputation and make it easier for crypto businesses to deal overseas.

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