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3 BTC Mining Pools Accounts for 53% of Hash Rate, Bitmain Controls 2; Is Decentralization at Risk?

Bitcoin may not be as decentralized as it is normally touted. According to stats from BTC. com, two Chinese companies control over 52% of Bitcoin's hashrate. This, combined with reduced rewards from the May 2020 halving, begs the question of whether the leading digital asset is fully decentralized. дальше »

2020-5-21 19:05


How Fund Managers View Lending and Staking: 3 Takeaways From a CoinDesk Research Webinar

In December, we invited two fund managers, both long bitcoin and other crypto assets, for a CoinDesk Research webinar on lending and staking. Jordan Clifford of Scalar Capital and Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital joined us to discuss how they evaluate risk and returns in crypto lending and staking, what crypto assets' risk-free rate might look like, and what DeFi needs to do to attract investors and new users. дальше »

2020-2-1 23:01


Bitcoin Analyst Tone Vays Talks $7,000 BTC/USD and the Price Rise from $4K to $14K Value

Check out the latest update video from prominent Bitcoin community contributor and trading analyst Tone Vays. He talks about the possibility of $7,000 BTC/USD exchange rate risk on top of what was the main drivers behind the $4,000 to $14,000 rise since April 2019 to now.  He does reference the $9,600 resistance level as a […] дальше »

2019-8-21 20:22


Stock Market Looks Recession-Proof, So What’s Holding Back the Dow?

The Dow Jones Industrial Average held relatively steady on Wednesday. According to Goldman Sachs, the US stock market recovery is unlikely to run into a recession anytime soon. If that’s the case, what’s holding back the Dow? Strategists Spar over Recession Risk and Dow Danger On Wednesday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) slashed its outlook of the global economic growth rate from 3. дальше »

2019-4-10 20:59


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Elections Canada Consults With Political Parties on Crypto Donations

According to Elections Canada, the agency that runs federal elections in Canada, there has been “a growing interest” in cryptocurrency donations. This trend has prompted some political parties to ask for a ruling on how best to manage bitcoin and other cryptocurrency political donations and how to navigate the various reporting systems required by both Elections Canada and the parties so that they comply with the Canada Elections Act. дальше »

2019-1-24 20:28


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New Exchange Security Scoring Model Offers Insurance Rates for Coin Holders

International cybersecurity solutions provider Group-IB has come up with a scoring model to grade crypto exchanges based on their level of security. The scoring model was created by Group-IB in conjunction with Swiss-based Cryptolns (which is operated by Swiss insurance broker APIS AS), and the grading is intrinsic to CryptoIns’ new cryptocurrency exchange insurance, which will allow exchange users to cover up to 15 BTC worth of digital assets held in their exchange accounts. дальше »

2018-11-13 00:43


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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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