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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


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Bitcoin price statistics manipulated by Tether in 2017

In practice, just as Bitcoin, all the Tether transaction chain or ledger is public and can be accessed through https://www.omniexplorer.info. In the following plot I show the Tether printing events (gray vertical bars) corresponding from March 2017 to July 2018, together with the cumulative printed Tether in red, the Bitcoin price evolution and the Bitfinex/Tether дальше »

2018-7-13 06:19


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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


Google, Samsung And Siemens Show Interest In Crypto Hardware Wallet

Hardware wallets are becoming the safest way to preserve cryptocurrency, rather than storing it through an online wallet that is at risk for hacking. To help appeal to an even larger market, major companies including Siemens, Samsung, and Google have expressed their desire to work with Ledger, which manufactures hardware wallets. They aim to get […] дальше »

2018-7-11 09:00


Financial Warrant System for Blockchain to Be Set Up by Eight Major European Financial Institutions

News surfaced of a major collaboration between several European banks and regulators that would use blockchain technology to issue financial warrants. The system, called Fast Track Listing, would allow entities to grant agreements on options to buy their stock, similar to option calls, through recording the contract on a blockchain ledger. дальше »

2018-7-5 16:24


Schwartz Rides Again: Tour de Schwartz EU

David Schwartz — Ripple’s Chief Cryptographer and one of the original architects of the XRP Ledger — is hitting the road again. This time he’s headed to Europe. From late May through early June, David will be stopping in multiple countries across the continent to attend meetups, give keynotes, and share his perspective with industry … Continued The post Schwartz Rides Again: Tour de Schwartz EU appeared first on Ripple. дальше »

2018-6-17 07:58