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Bloomberg: Institutional Interest in Cryptocurrency is Low

Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC), Wall Street–While excitement is beginning to bubble again over the possibility of a Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund, thereby providing the avenue for more large scale investing than what the current landscape affords, Bloomberg reports that the overall sentiment from institutional investors is disinterest. дальше »

2018-11-11 20:37


Plasma Halted as Ethereum Seeks Alternative Scaling in zk-SNARKs

Ethereum’s Achilles heel has always been scaling. Since its inception, developers have been researching different ways to scale the blockchain in order to increase network capacity and speed. Back in August 2017 Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, released an initial draft of the Plasma project which provided an off-chain layer 2 scaling solution. дальше »

2018-11-9 15:00


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Ethereum Price Watch: Currency Witnesses Steady Gains Over the Past 5 Days

At press time, Bitcoin’s closest competitor and the world’s second largest crypto asset by market capitalization, Ethereum, is trading at a respectable price point of $216.12. Additionally, as can be observed from the chart below, the premier currency has been able to scale up to around the $225 mark (twice) within the span of the past […] The post Ethereum Price Watch: Currency Witnesses Steady Gains Over the Past 5 Days appeared first on NullTX. дальше »

2018-11-8 14:25


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Vitalik Buterin co-authors research showing how Ethereum can scale securely

Ethereum devs are edging closer to scaling Ethereum. A new paper, co-authored by Vitalik Buterin, claims to have eliminated certain security trade-offs plaguing its new ‘sharding‘ tech. Researchers Mustafa Al-Bassam and Alberto Sonnino from University College London teamed up with Buterin to publish, what they say, is the key to fixing Ethereum’s scalability problems. дальше »

2018-9-26 17:47


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How Zcash Could Help Scale Ethereum Up To 500 Transactions Per Second

Scalability problems plague Ethereum. Often, the Ethereum blockchain is clogged and slow, hardly a surprise given how many projects exist on the Ethereum blockchain though. There could be a new solution within some new practices that have been pioneered within the Zcash network, according to Coindesk: “A form of cryptography pioneered by zcash might help scale ethereum, founder of the platform Vitalik Buterin said on a research forum Saturday. дальше »

2018-9-24 18:00


Berkeley Professor Questions Stablecoin Viability in Unflattering Op-Ed

University of Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen has taken a swipe at the viability of stablecoins in an op-ed published on Project Syndicate. The critique, entitled “The Stable-Coin Myth,” argues stablecoins are not automatically "viable" just because they are pegged to an asset, though Eichengreen does believe they have an advantage over "conventional cryptocurrencies" such as bitcoin which he says "is highly unstable" and "unattractive as units of account. дальше »

2018-9-13 18:07


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An Australian Blockchain Experiment: Tracking Global Almond Shipments

Following a successful 2016 trial of blockchain technology in an interbank open account transaction, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has partnered with five international and Australian companies to ship 17 tonnes of almonds from Melbourne, Australia, to Hamburg, Germany, using a new distributed ledger platform built on the Ethereum blockchain. дальше »

2018-7-31 23:13


Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and other coins to be protected better with the new bill, says South Korean official

On 25th July, South Korean officials made it clear that the country’s governing bodies must come together to enforce cryptocurrency regulations. This comes in the wake of major hacks that has threatened to destabilize the financial markets as well as dissuade people from adopting cryptocurrencies on a larger scale. South Korea is making a steady progress […] дальше »

2018-7-27 23:34


This Silicon Valley-Backed Blockchain Startup Wants to Become the Wikipedia of Data

DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others. дальше »

2018-7-21 20:14


This Silicon Valley Backs Blockchain Startup Wants to Become the Wikipedia of Data

DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others. дальше »

2018-7-20 20:14