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Facebook’s Record-Setting Stock Market Wipeout Revives Crypto Comparisons

Security and volatility. They are the two aspects of cryptocurrencies that are attacked the most. While there are other challenges such as scalability, the energy consumption associated with mining, and privacy, cryptos’ volatility is often cited by skeptics as the reason they could never become a mainstream payment method. In 2017 alone, Bitcoin’s value rose […] дальше »

2018-7-31 23:00


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Why Iran Could Be The First Country To Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender

Many things happened from the time Bitcoin was conceived as a peer-to-peer electronic cash to the time someone dared to buy two pizzas giving it real monetary value, but it only took one person daring to accept its economic value for a revolution to take place raising its price from pennies to thousand dollars in […] The post Why Iran Could Be The First Country To Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-7-26 19:57


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. 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


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Fed Sir: Crypto No Intrins Value, Value is not a store, great for money laundering

In his view, cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value, are not used often as a means of payment, are not a store of value, but are great for money laundering. He also dismisses the idea that cryptocurrencies could pose a significant risk to the country’s financial stability at their current size. U.S. Representative and vice-chairman of дальше »

2018-7-19 17:07


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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


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Hyperbitcoinization: $100mil Per Coin by 2030 activity

At least one theorist believes the above will happen, and further postulates one hundred million dollars per bitcoin could be in the works as early as 2030. “Bitcoin-induced currency demonetization, or hyperbitcoinization” is what would occur should “any hapless currency” stand “in bitcoin’s path of total world domination. The current store of value talk and дальше »

2018-7-8 06:40


New Research Shows Social Media’s Influence on Cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin’s value may have reached a new low on Sunday, but research proves that social media could do the trick to bring the coin back to its feet. A new study conducted by the Stevens Institute of Technology uses natural language processing and social media analytics to suggest that the coins could be moving per […] New Research Shows Social Media’s Influence on Cryptocurrencies was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. дальше »

2018-6-27 22:23