A practical guide to long-term investing: why Digitap ($TAP) is a must-hold

Finding a real crypto gem usually feels like searching in the dark. Many people look for hype, fast pumps, or the next meme coin. But long-term growth often comes from projects that solve real problems and keep building even when markets turn quiet.

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Hedera vs XLM: The Battle for Real-World Utility Heats Up

When it comes to crypto projects that want to solve real-world problems, Hedera (HBAR) and Stellar (XLM) are two of the biggest names. They’re not just about hype – both are building tools and networks that real people and companies are already using.

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Linear Finance: Building a High-Performance Perpetual DEX on Orderly Network

In DeFi, projects that stick around are usually the ones that solve real problems. Linear Finance is doing exactly that with its Perpetual Decentralized Exchange (PerpDEX), a platform designed for fasThe post Linear Finance: Building a High-Performance Perpetual DEX on Orderly Network appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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'We Are Building Future': Vitalik Buterin Debunks Ethereum FUD

Ethereum's layer-2 problems? Vitalik Buterin has plan

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Blockchain fixes this: Building trust and privacy with AI | Opinion

AI and blockchain will allow businesses to tackle the world’s biggest problems while ensuring data and model privacy.

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Bitcoin As A Foundation For Community Building

Community is an important part of dealing with problems, as recent wildfires in Portugal demonstrate. Can Bitcoin be a foundation for restoring communities where they have fragmented?

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Why DAOs Need to Adopt a 2-Treasury System

Blockchain infrastructure companies are trying to solve two complex and expensive problems: building sustainable protocols and dynamic ecosystems.

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Airdrops: Building communities or building problems?

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US Cybersecurity Agency Recommends Integration of Blockchain in Supply Chain

The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in a report dubbed “Building A More Resilient ICT Supply Chain: Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” published on Nov 6, said the blockchain technology can help in resolving supply chain problems in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Can NEO 3.0 Improve Upon the Current dApp Problems?

Building a blockchain ecosystem capable of supporting dApps is one thing. Getting developers to build dApp solutions which people keep using, is seemingly difficult for NEO. Similar to other ecosystems, the NEO blockchain is home to quite a few different distributed applications.

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Square Targets Widespread Adoption with Lightning Development Tools

After speaking to multiple Bitcoin developers who are building products for the ecosystem, Square’s newly set up Bitcoin team, led by Matt Corallo, is releasing a Lightning Development Kit (LDK) to allow wallet and applications creators to give their users custom experiences without running into major problems, January 22, 2019.

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Interview with Kristof De Spiegeleer: The Current Internet Has Never Been Designed With Security In Mind

Kristof is a successful entrepreneur and the co-founder of the ThreeFold Foundation. He is building the next generation blockchain-based IT infrastructure. We discussed his journey building tech companies, problems with current IT systems, and what he believes is the future of modern technologies.

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Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3

Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released.

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IOTA Foundation and Dell Amongst Participants for Industrial IoT Challenge

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is holding a smart building challenge for blockchain and IoT projects, with the goal of integrating tech partners and suppliers to build smart complexes. This challenge, launched in tandem with Trusted IoT Alliance, revolves around participants solving crucial problems in a particular sector with a basic outlay and execution plan,Read MoreRead More.

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Freelanex ICO

Freelanex is a decentralized platform which provides an environmental system on Blockchain. It represents a unique opportunity for approaching bargains by using a decentralized System with smart contracts, through an interface user friendly.

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Lakeba Simplifies Property Ownership with Blockchain Technology 

Lakeba Group, a privately held international technology innovation group that focuses on solving problems with new technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), is orchestrating the sale of two apartments in Adelaide’s tallest residential building, Kodo, with distributed ledger technology (DLT) reports Micky on September 24, 2019.

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This blockchain-themed maths puzzle can earn you a share of $100,000

There’s a (supposed) problem with blockchain: it’s too resource-intensive, so Amazon Web Services (AWS) has backed a $100,000 maths competition to “forever change” the technology. Given 1024-bit input x, compute the verifiable delay function ‘h=x^(2^t) mod N’ as fast as possible.

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Hyperloop: A New Concept by Lightning Aiming to Solve Liquidity Problems

About two months ago, Lightning Labs released Lightning Loop, a service that allows users to fill or empty Lightning channels without closing them, thus reducing on-chain fees.

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Fast Fourier Transforms

Trigger warning: specialized mathematical topic Special thanks to Karl Floersch for feedback One of the more interesting algorithms in number theory is the Fast Fourier transform (FFT).

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Op Ed: With Bitcoin, Anarchy Is the Point, Not the Problem

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.

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Matrix AI Network Are Building the Most Advanced Blockchain to Support AI Growth [Exclusive]

Despite recently celebrating a decade of decentralized technology with Bitcoin’s 10th anniversary, the blockchain space still faces several challenges which many blockchain projects have failed to overcome.

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Freelancers on Traditional Platforms Can Now Invoice in Bitcoin Via Bitwage

In the current freelancing industry, many platforms only allow independent contractors to use one bank account. In addition to restricting freelancers to the use of fiat only, this can also cause significant lag times when employees work with companies overseas.

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Review: A Fisherman’s Tale is the best way to play with yourself in VR

Vertigo Games today released its VR puzzler A Fisherman’s Tale, a game in which you play with yourself to solve a puppet’s problems. The general idea here is that you’ll be controlling a character inside of a building that’s controlling a character inside a building… that’s controlling a character inside a building… basically, it’s turtles all the way down.

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BetterHash Protocol Lets Pool Miners Regain Control Over Their Hash Power

One problem that concerns many is the centralization of mining within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Fortunately, there are talented developers working to solve this problem and Matt Corallo, full-time Bitcoin developer at Chaincode Labs, is one of them.

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Educating the Next Wave of Bitcoin Developers

Bitcoin is an open-source protocol that anybody can interact with. It is getting attention and attracting participation in different ways, whether it is through speculation, investing and sending money, all the way to contributing to what’s underneath the hood.

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“We Did This With Gold”: Could VanEck Be Bitcoin’s Best Bet for an ETF?

Gabor Gurbacs is confident that the approval of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) is inevitable. And he’s optimistic that the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Strategy will be the first to deliver one to the world.

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OKCoin Adds the Argentine Peso as It Eyes Expansion Into Latin America

Despite a prolonged cryptocurrency bear market and regulatory uncertainties, OKCoin, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, is expanding to Latin America launching a new exchange platform headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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How the Truffle Suite Is Streamlining Ethereum Development

Initially launched in 2015, Truffle promises to solve a number of key problems experienced by Ethereum developers in the course of building decentralized applications using smart contracts. Functioning with support from development leader ConsenSys, Truffle potentially holds the key to making Ethereum development simple and accessible to a new wave of developers, in line with the goals of ConsenSys to.

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Waves Sets New Throughput Record of 6.1 Million Network Transfers

In the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, building scalable solutions is an ongoing process. While it seems to be only a matter of time until a major breakthrough occurs, the Waves team has achieved an interesting milestone.

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Uranus, Next “Uber” in the Realm of Computer-Sharing Resources

Currently, most of the giant cloud services providers, such as Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS), are testing and rolling out various sorts of blockchain applications. Last month, Google unveiled a free analytics tool that allow anyone to explore the Ethereum (ETH) network.

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goTenna and Samourai Wallet’s New Mobile App Works Without Internet Access

Brooklyn-based goTenna has launched TxTenna, a mobile app that allows users to send bitcoin without an internet connection. Built in partnership with Samourai Wallet, the mobile app will enable users to send bitcoin using a secure and private network free of censorship.

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New Mining Manufacturer Linzhi Announces Ethereum ASIC Miner

Chen Min, the former chief chip maker at Bitcoin mining chip developer Canaan Creative, is turning her attention to Ethereum. Announcing her venture at the Ethereum Classic Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Chen’s new company, Linzhi, will focus on building cryptocurrency mining devices, and its first official products are a series of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miners designed specifically for Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.

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Lightning Ramp and Casa Join Hands to Develop the Casa Lightning Node

The team behind Lightning Ramp, a system that provides customers with faster bitcoin payments, has joined forces with Casa, a “be-your-own-bank” product that provides users with a multi-signature, multi-hardware device and multi-location wallet designed, to offer top-notch security against attacks and theft.

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IBM Introduces 'World Wire' Payment System on Stellar Network

IBM has launched a blockchain-based payment system called Blockchain World Wire. According to IBM, the new payment network uses digital currency on Stellar's blockchain to "clear and settle cross-border payments" in near real time.

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West Virginia to Offer Blockchain Voting Options for Midterms

American troops serving overseas will be able to cast their votes in West Virginia through a mobile voting platform based on blockchain technology in the federal elections in November 2018.

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ConsenSys Ventures Kavita Gupta Talks Tachyon and India

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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How Peter Kroll’s Paper Wallet Protects Cryptocurrency

Since its invention, a recurring question for cryptocurrency holders has been how to best secure their digital assets. This question of security carries the greatest weight when one understands the stakes of holding unprotected cryptocurrency — vulnerability to hackers.

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