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Monero Community Praises Bitcoin’s Brainpower Strength and Sees Adoption as Strong 10 Years In

Amid a bear market that is affecting the whole cryptocurrency market, Riccardo Spagni, Monero’s leader and developer, showed that he is very positive about Bitcoin (BTC) and its future. During a conversation on the Magical Crypto Friends show, he said that there is an increased criticism being made to the Bitcoin community. At the same […] дальше »

2018-11-19 18:32


Open API Cryptocurrency Exchanges Launches IPFS Protocol to Facilitate Security Token Trading

A developer of decentralized ERC-20 token exchange powered by P2P hypermedia protocol from Protocol labs launches private IT-backed security token. To remove the challenges linked to traditional IPO investing, the security trading platform BaseCore leverages its very own security token: BaseCore token; a stable coin backed by the underlying portfolios of private IT companies. дальше »

2018-11-1 11:00


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Jimmy Song: “EOS is a Scam,” “BCH Has No Reason to Exist” and ETH is Amateurish and Stupid

Jimmy Song, a popular Bitcoin developer, and educator, spoke frankly in an interview for Crypto Insider about several crypto projects and other blockchain technologies. For Jimmy Song, the world of blockchain technologies has evolved at a very fast pace, and although he is constantly seen as quite optimistic about software development within the community, in […] The post Jimmy Song: “EOS is a Scam,” “BCH Has No Reason to Exist” and ETH is Amateurish and Stupid appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-10-14 12:00


China to Overtake US as Leading Blockchain Developer: PwC Survey

While the US currently stands as the world leader in blockchain technology, China could very soon overshadow America in terms of blockchain development, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). A new survey conducted by the firm that examines the views of 600 executives in 15 countries found that the US (29%) is perceived as the most advanced […] The post China to Overtake US as Leading Blockchain Developer: PwC Survey appeared first on Coinjournal. дальше »

2018-8-29 23:25


Steam removes controversial game accused of mining cryptocurrency

Steam has removed “trivial platformer” game Abstractism from its store following accusations that the game is surreptitiously stealing users’ computing power to mine cryptocurrency. “We have removed Abstractism and banned its developer from Steam for shipping unauthorized code, trolling with content, and scamming customers with deceptive in-game items,” Doug Lombardi, VP of Marketing at Steam, told Hard Fork in an email. дальше »

2018-7-31 12:50


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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


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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Jonas Schnelli: Very difficult to make Bitcoin easy for people

Jonas Schnelli speaks about his work as a Bitcoin Core Developer, making Bitcoin more user-friendly, Bitcoin software development as an open source project, dealing with disagreements and criticism, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, hard forks, Bitcoin maximalism, time horizons for cryptocurrencies, why the slow progress of Bitcoin can be a good thing, why making Bitcoin more user дальше »

2018-6-13 19:55


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