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If Europe succeeds in this endeavor, it will be proof that it’s possible to enjoy global connectivity without the double-edged sword that is globalization. origin »
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BlockDAG was conceived as an idea to overcome Proof of Work blockchain limitations and make blockchain technology better. The network makes it possible to confirm transactions in seconds instead of miThe post BlockDAG tokenomics explained: The future ready crypto network appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2024-3-13 19:05 | |
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The SEC is inviting public comments to help them assess the "nature" of Ethereum and whether proof of stake opens an ETF to possible fraud.
2024-3-5 14:30 | |
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2023-8-23 23:57 | |
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Dogecoin Lead Developer, Mishaboar has expressed his doubts about a possible move to a Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchain consensus. The developer has stated that the transition to a POS mechanism is not a “sensible approach” and has highlighted several issues that could develop from the change.
2023-8-22 19:00 | |
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Ethereum has been seeing increased regulatory scrutiny in recent months. This comes following the network’s move to a proof of stake mechanism and the introduction of staking to the others. As sanctions have been levied against protocols such as Tornado Cash, it is becoming increasingly possible that regulatory bodies may turn their focus to Ethereum.
2022-10-5 20:00 | |
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CZ has finally made it possible for Binance users to see Proof of Assets for Dogecoin on BSC, as well as XRP and other coins
2022-6-1 18:54 | |
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Going green is an ideal way to run crypto — but is it doable? Governments have been concerned about the negative impacts of cryptocurrency mining to the environment as it exhausts massive amounts of energy, especially for the so-called “proof of work” mechanism.
2022-5-3 02:58 | |
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On Monday, March 14th, the European Parliament ECON Committee will vote on MiCA, the comprehensive crypto regulatory proposal for Europe. At the last possible moment certain parties offered amendments to MiCA that would ban Proof of Work consensus protocols, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other popular blockchains and crypto assets in Europe, issuing an ultimatum […]
2022-3-14 00:30 | |
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In an interview with Jon Evans during the TechCrunch Sessions: Blockchain back in July 2018, Vitalik Buterin wished centralized exchanges the worst: burning in hell as much as possible. While this seemed dark then, the co-founder was inadvertently issuing a rallying call to developers to deploy better token swapping solutions.
2022-1-7 15:00 | |
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Crypto regulation in the United States remains a hot-button topic, especially following recent moves by regulatory watchdogs in the country. While many are wary of these regulators and their views on the industry, some pro-crypto names are welcoming the possible developments.
2021-9-18 23:34 | |
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A recent analytical staff note by the Bank of Canada on CBDC's has highlighted that higher privacy levels may come at a cost. The bank summarized possible privacy CBDC frameworks as it looks to advance research and development in this space.
2020-7-1 20:54 | |
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Coinspeaker ETC Merger with Ethereum 2. 0 Shard Is Possible, Says Vitalik ButerinVitalik Buterin believes that Ethereum Classic can be merged into Ethereum 2. 0 in the same way as a new shard-like ETH's current Proof of Work (PoW) chain will be integrated.
2020-1-22 14:58 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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It seems that PIVX, a popular private transactions crypto, may be vulnerable to attacks together with 200 other chains. According to a recent report made by Lunar Digital Assets, there is a vulnerability of the system that can be currently exploited.
2019-8-14 00:30 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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Luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, tech giant Microsoft and blockchain software technology ConsenSys have teamed up to develop the AURA blockchain-based platform, a solution that makes it possible for consumers to gain access a luxury good’s history and proof of its authenticity – from raw materials to the point of sale, all the way to second-hand […] The post LVMH, Microsoft and ConsenSys Announce Blockchain Consortium AURA appeared first on Coinjournal.
2019-5-17 21:50 | |
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One of the most important features of any project being worked on for the cryptocurrency industry is security. All related firms including manufacturing companies, exchange firms and even the makers of the cryptos themselves are always looking for new ways to not only make transactions as cheap as possible but also to ensure privacy and […] The post BNB Not Replacing ETH As EY Concludes Plans to Release its Zero-Knowledge Proof Transaction Protocol On The Public Ethereum network appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2019-4-21 11:03 | |
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Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
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Our project is a Platform for the Sports Industry with safe transactions secured by a blockchain system. Our project will be built on the Waves Platform, will be named Sportcash One, and we will be using 2 tokens, an SCOne Utility Token to purchase real world and digital goods directly through the platform and a Diamond Token that will reward our users for promoting, using and sharing our token economy and social media platform.
2019-3-28 10:35 | |
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Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems.
2019-3-23 17:29 | |
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On February 4, 2019, blockchain tech company Blockstream announced the development of a “proof of reserves” tool to standardize the authenticity of exchanges’ crypto reserves.
2019-2-7 01:01 | |
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Whenever I claim that bitcoin is the only decentralized cryptocurrency, I get one of two arguments:My X coin is also decentralized. Bitcoin isn’t decentralized because of Core and/or miners.
2019-1-21 21:52 | |
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Latest IOTA News Harm van den Brink together with fellows from ElaadNL and Enexis now have a proof of concept system demonstrating that it is actually possible to build an autonomous self-balancing smart grid network powered by IOTA.
2019-1-14 15:30 | |
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The Skelpy project aim is to create a totally decentralized and clear blockchain, in which every wallet has a certified digital identity. Transactions will be visible to everybody, but the individuals will be certified and recognized following visibility criterion.
2019-1-10 04:33 | |
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Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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In the time-honored tradition of goal setting for the new year, Bitcoin Magazine has compiled a short list of seven possible New Year’s Resolutions for Bitcoiners as we head into 2019.
2019-1-2 03:22 | |
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Tierion is a protocol that makes it possible to verify data at a massive scale by creating a proof that
2018-12-3 13:07 | |
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Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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You don’t need to be an agriculture expert to see the writing on the wall. Current farming methods just aren’t working anymore for most farmers of the world. There are 2 billion smallholder farms managing fewer than five acres (PDF).
2018-10-9 20:10 | |
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Earlier this week, the Coda Protocol team introduced the Coda Testnet state explorer. Amazingly, the blockchain network can comfortably run full nodes on the web browser installed on standard home computers.
2018-10-4 19:33 | |
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Today, any crypto platform requires an advanced mechanism to enable transactions between its users. When it comes to crowd investing platforms like the Bitbon System, such a mechanism must be extremely reliable, quick and cheap.
2018-9-12 13:45 | |
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ConsenSys, the Ethereum production studio based in the U. S. , launched ConsenSys Ventures last year selecting Kavita Gupta to run two funds of $50 million and $100 million.
2018-8-6 17:40 | |
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Special thanks to Eli ben Sasson for his kind assistance, as usual. Special thanks to Chih-Cheng Liang and Justin Drake for review. Trigger warning: math and lots of python div. foo { color: white; } div.
2018-7-22 04:03 | |
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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.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help and explanations, and Justin Drake for reviewing In the last part of this series, we talked about how you can make some pretty interesting succinct proofs of computation, such as proving that you have computed the millionth Fibonacci number, using a technique involving polynomial composition and division.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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The following is a diagram from a slide that I made in one of my presentations at Cornell this week: </img> If there was one diagram that could capture the core principle of Casper’s incentivization philosophy, this might be it.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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One kind of token model that has become popular among many recent token sale projects is the “network medium of exchange token”. The general pitch for this kind of token goes as follows. We, the developers, build a network, and this network allows you to do new cool stuff.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Polkadot Introduces Proof of Concept in Its Latest Update Polkadot platform started by Gavin Wood is a platform that makes it possible for blockchain platforms to communicate with each other. On July 17th, the platform introduced its 2nd proof of concept.
2018-7-20 23:49 | |
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All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name.
2018-6-15 23:31 | |
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Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s new book, Radical Markets, which could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called “political economy” - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect.
2018-7-21 04:03 | |
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A cluster of major US inflation and jobs reports due this week could spike volatility in stocks and crypto, with Fed policy expectations in focus as liquidity drops. A series of U.S. economic data releases scheduled for this week could…
Kraken's parent company made a first step toward an IPO, hoping to follow the path of Circle, Gemini, Bullish, and Figure Technologies
New Hampshire has once again notched the first position among other U.S. states after launching a Bitcoin-backed municipal bond. New Hampshire’s business financing agency, the Business Finance Authority, signed the approval on Nov 17 to authorize a “first of its…
United States authorities have indicted Chicago-based crypto ATM operator Virtual Assets LLC and its founder, Firas Isa, with money laundering charges involving fraud and narcotics proceeds. Isa and his firm operated Crypto Dispensers, a company whose core business involved offering…
The U. S. Senate Banking Committee will vote in December 2025 on comprehensive cryptocurrency market structure legislation, according to committee Chair Tim Scott on a recent television interview on Fox News.
Will the White House proposal give the IRS broader access to offshore crypto data as agencies push for tighter tax oversight? The White House is examining a proposed rule that would give the Internal Revenue Service access to data on…
Treasury yields, Federal Reserve policy, have put pressure on risk assets, including Bitcoin, during the government shutdown. The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is over, but the crypto markets are still in the red. Just hours after lawmakers finalized…