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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


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. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


Mati Greenspan Of eToro Says Cardano is the Most Exciting Cryptocurrency Project at The Moment

eToro, one of the largest social investing platforms has recently published a market research report on Cardano, the blockchain powering the cryptocurrency ADA, and the ADA coin itself. The report is a useful insight for investors, especially in light of Cardano’s often complicated scientific and philosophical ethos. дальше »

2018-7-20 18:22


CFA Adds Topics on Cryptos and Blockchain Technology to Its Exams

Once the genie leaves the bottle, it’s impossible to put back. This narrative has been quite true for the crypto and blockchain industry. After coming under attack in its early days, most often from those industries that it disrupted the most, a sharp turnaround has come about in the last few years as more adversaries […] дальше »

2018-7-19 23:00


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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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The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name. дальше »

2018-7-13 17:16


Vitalik Buterin Banishes Centralized Exchanges to Hell

It’s not often you get to see a Russian-Canadian programming wunderkind sentence centralized exchanges into hell, but attendees of TC Sessions: Blockchain got to see it live. Vitalik Buterin, Co-Founder of Ethereum, captured the sentiments of a cryptocurrency community frustrated… The post Vitalik Buterin Banishes Centralized Exchanges to Hell appeared first on CoinCentral. дальше »

2018-7-11 01:24


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Tim Berners-Lee, The Father Of The Internet Believes In Blockchain

Tim Berners-Lee, the creator and father of the World Wide Web, now known as the internet, believes that the blockchain is the next step for the future of the internet. Berners-Lee developed an idea for a free, open source internet, through which he gave his product away to the world, to allow a culture to mature which in turn has led to the development of the internet today. дальше »

2018-7-3 09:00


Flawed’ Steemit by Offering Lifetime Earnings to Creators by Blockchain Network

UUNIO wants its service to threaten the likes of YouTube, where it claims some content creators are barely given $500 even if they amass a million views. Copyright infringement is also an issue, with fledgling entertainers all too often finding their work has been ripped off by other accounts. But perhaps most interesting is UUNIO’s дальше »

2018-6-19 16:40


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German Finance Regulator Sees Blockchain As Revolutionary

Considering its status as a financial powerhouse and the home of the European Central Bank, Germany don’t often hit cryptocurrency headlines. Today however (I’m not sure if its just in the spirit of the world cup though) we are seeing reports from Germany that discuss some promising statements from the President of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Felix Hufeld. дальше »

2018-6-14 23:00