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Shift Your Gear From Centralized World to Decentralized
Today’s world is completely dominated by the concept of centralization in all sectors with banking being the major amongst it. Though centralization gives us a secure feeling that our data and assets are being maintained by trusted and reliable entities, in reality it is the other way around in many cases. Centralization takes away theRead More дальше »
2021-9-16 14:00 | |
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IOTA Foundation launches 2.0 ‘Nectar’ DevNet to address questions of centralization
IOTA has had a bumpy ride, to say the least. Consider this, from being ranked as high as 4th on CoinMarketCap’s charts once, the cryptocurrency, at press time, stood 32nd. It was trading just under The post IOTA Foundation launches 2. дальше »
2021-6-4 01:30 | |
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Expanding Bitcoin Ecosystem and Utility Put to Rest Centralization Questions
Coinspeaker Expanding Bitcoin Ecosystem and Utility Put to Rest Centralization QuestionsBitcoin is still the most valuable digital asset and its security is being guaranteed by the community of miners and providers. дальше »
2020-5-7 17:10 | |
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Bitcoin Mining Centralization No Longer An Issue, Other Regions To Overtake China Soon: Analyst PlanB
Over the last few years, the largest and most active Bitcoin miners have operated from China. These large miners include Bitmain, a miner that has been involved in some tug-of-war scenarios in the recent past, one of them being the hash war of 2018 following the hard fork that led to the split of the […] дальше »
2020-4-27 10:59 | |
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Bitcoin, Ethereum should join forces to prevent centralization in crypto-community
Cryptocurrencies have been around for a long time now, but many still think of them as being in the experimental phase. Despite such perceptions, however, the king coin has managed to gain some modicuThe post Bitcoin, Ethereum should join forces to prevent centralization in crypto-community appeared first on AMBCrypto. дальше »
2020-4-18 15:30 | |
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Could Proof-of-Stake Cryptocurrencies Lead to More Centralization?
There has always been a lot of tribalism in the cryptocurrency industry, especially when it comes to consensus methods. Power-hungry proof-of-work protocols are slowly being replaced by proof-of-stake (Pos) by many major digital currency platforms — but this too is not without its own set of potential drawbacks. дальше »
2020-3-4 00:10 | |
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Ripple CEO blasts concentration of Bitcoin miners in China, but his critique misses the mark
It’s no secret that the majority of Bitcoin’s miners are located in China, with the geographical centralization of this mining power being a go-to critique for the cryptocurrency’s critics. This sentiment was recently echoed by Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, who explained in a recent interview with CNN’s Julia Chatterley that the heavy concentration of miners […] The post Ripple CEO blasts concentration of Bitcoin miners in China, but his critique misses the mark appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »
2020-2-18 08:07 | |
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Is the ASIC Resistance dream closer to reality, despite claims of it being a myth?
“Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society” ~ Carlos Salinas de Gortari To ASIC or not to ASIThe post Is the ASIC Resistance dream closer to reality, despite claims of it being a myth? appeared first on AMBCrypto. дальше »
2020-1-1 17:30 | |
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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity. дальше »
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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Senior Ripple Exec Attacks Facebook’s Libra Over Centralization
Marcus Treacher, a senior executive at blockchain cross-border remittance giant Ripple is seemingly kicking-off a modern “cola war” with their emerging rival Libra, Facebook’s controversial cryptocurrency. дальше »
2019-9-28 15:36 | |
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Tron’s Cliff Edwards addresses issues of centralization; insists lunch with Warren Buffett is being rescheduled
Justin Sun’s lunch with American investment mogul, Warren Buffett, grabbed the attention of the entire cryptocurrency community. However, it had to be rescheduled, and is still on track, claimed Tron’s Director of Global Communications Cliff Edwards in a recent interview with Finance Magnates. дальше »
2019-9-4 17:30 | |
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Ripple takes a step towards decentralization as it sees a significant fall in its dUNL
Ripple is undoubtedly one of the largest firms in the cryptospace today. The San Francisco-based exchange has been stung by a lot of criticism recently, despite repeated attempts by the Brad Garlinghouse-led team to disambiguate centralization claims of its cryptocurrency, XRP. дальше »
2019-8-14 23:30 | |
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Tuur Demeester: Ethereum Is Getting More Centralized And Lacks Credibility
Co-founder of Adamant Capital, Tuur Demeester isn’t thrilled about Ethereum’s performance, and he hasn’t shied away from expressing his displeasure. In a Twitter post that has since attracted the attention of numerous crypto fans, Tuur points out a few of the issues that he considers thorny in Ethereum, one of them being centralization. дальше »
2019-7-9 12:19 | |
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Block.one’s CEO asserts Voice to be a mix of centralized and decentralized features
The controversy surrounding whether EOS network being decentralized has garnered huge attention in the past and continues even today. As the community continues to battle EOS’s innate nature between centralized and decentralized network, the firm behind it, Block. дальше »
2019-6-9 18:00 | |
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Monero Community Reveals New Anti-ASIC Mining Algorithm
Developers of the Monero privacy coin have announced a new weapon in their battle against centralization. In collaboration with Arweave, a serverless storage protocol, the Monero team is validating a new, ASIC-resistant mining algorithm, dubbed RandomX. дальше »
2019-6-4 11:17 | |
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Bitcoin SV (BSV) Scaling Test Network Mines 6 Blocks Over 1 Gigabyte; Real or Just Centralization?
Bitcoin SV has been considered to be the fork of Bitcoin Cash they have just gone ahead to set up the Scaling Test Network, STN. One that has been explicitly being designed to test the on-chain scaling for the large blocks in the network. And in the latest update, it has been able to act […] дальше »
2019-5-24 02:27 | |
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Op Ed: Lightning Network Consensus Is a Marketplace and That’s Okay!
To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance. дальше »
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
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Control as Liability
The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When large-scale social networking platforms first became popular in the 2000s, the general attitude toward mass data collection was essentially “why not?”. дальше »
2019-5-11 04:03 | |
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Op Ed: With Bitcoin, Anarchy Is the Point, Not the Problem
Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems. дальше »
2019-3-23 17:29 | |
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Op Ed: Defining Decentralization: How Ambiguity Continues to Divide Crypto
There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization. ” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology. дальше »
2019-3-1 19:43 | |
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Stanford Student Calls Out Crypto Professor for Inaccurate Bitcoin Lecture
In January of 2019, student Conner Brown attended a guest lecture by a Professor Susan Athey at the University of Stanford Graduate School. She gave a presentation to his “Evolution of Finance” class titled “Blockchain and the Future of Finance. дальше »
2019-3-1 03:39 | |
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Wrap Your Head Around This: BTC Is Now Featured as a Token on Ethereum
It happened: Bitcoin is now an Ethereum token. Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), an ERC-20 token with a 1-1 peg to bitcoin, went live on the Ethereum network on the final day of January, “the first token that makes Bitcoin compatible with the Ethereum chain,” its architects say. дальше »
2019-2-2 00:04 | |
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Crypto Attorney Preston Byrne Says Ethereum is ‘Arguably Centralized’, Could Spell Doom for ETH
In a recent blog post written by Preston Byrne, an attorney at Byrne & Storm, he mentioned that Ethereum is ‘doomed to be centralized. ’ He started by saying that he would be presenting a list of suggestive but not definitive evidence of centralization in the ecosystem. дальше »
2019-1-20 20:05 | |
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Immutability Questioned After Steemit Blog Bans 9/11 Blackmailer’s Account
The blockchain-powered blogging platform Steemit is being accused of centralization and censorship. On Jan. 7, 2019, the hacker group The Dark Overlord had its account banned from Steemit by a developer known as ‘Jredbeard’ for violating the company’s terms of service agreement. дальше »
2019-1-10 03:20 | |
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Ripple moving their XRP: Billion-dollar transaction causes FUD and confusion on Twitter
On 1 January 2019, Ripple moved XRP worth over one billion US dollars in seven transactions. Fears that XRP whales would manipulate the market were already being voiced. The transactions seem to be related to the ripple escrow. дальше »
2019-1-3 21:14 | |
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Lisk (LSK) about to dismantle delegate cartels – new roadmap is out
Lisk issues with centralization and with its DPoS system being controlled by a pool that owns more than 53% of the network, thus having full control over the consensus, transactions, votes, and delegates, have been a public secret for quite some time. дальше »
2018-11-22 17:45 | |
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Binance Freezes Funds on Multiple Accounts with Dubious Crypto Exchange
Binance has frozen multiple accounts associated with the cryptocurrency exchange Wex, citing money laundering concerns. The CEO of Binance went on Twitter recently to announce the freezing of multiple accounts owned by Wex, claiming that Binance will cooperate with law enforcement in any way possible should a criminal investigation result from alleged money laundering. дальше »
2018-11-1 01:47 | |
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EOS (EOS) Is On A Bullish Spree Again, But Has It Completed Its Correction Yet?
EOS (EOS) is on a bullish spree again. In fact, EOS (EOS) is one of the first coins to surge as soon as there is any indication of a recovery. This behavior is what has kept EOS (EOS) in the top ten as an investors’ favorite despite being at the centre of debates regarding centralization and ownership. дальше »
2018-8-30 21:30 | |
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Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term
One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”). дальше »
2018-8-28 04:03 | |
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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. дальше »
2018-7-31 21:27 | |
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A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol
Although the ideas behind the current Ethereum protocol have largely been stable for two years, Ethereum did not emerge all at once, in its current conception and fully formed. Before the blockchain has launched, the protocol went through a number of significant evolutions and design decisions. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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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. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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PoWx Seeks to Change Bitcoin Mining with “Optical PoW”
Nonprofit organization PoWx has launched this week with the goal of boosting the idea behind proof of work (PoW) through more innovative algorithms. The company is seeking to decentralize Bitcoin mining and make it more accessible to consumers through a new technology that executives have dubbed “optical PoW” — a new type of hardware that utilizes a more advanced and energy-efficient form of laser technology as the cornerstone of mining. дальше »
2018-7-14 01:04 | |
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Augur Launches Decentralized Prediction Marketplace
Augur, a blockchain-based predictions platform, has opened to the general public. The platform becomes the “world’s first” decentralized prediction-market platform. дальше »
2018-7-10 19:14 | |
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Op-Ed: Challenge of Mining Centralization Unveils Bitcoin’s Elegant Design
Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away. дальше »
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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