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For weeks now, the cryptocurrency community has been fervently discussing the recent acquisition of the Steemit blockchain. Skeptics believe that the Tron takeover has shown significant vulnerabilities with delegated-proof-of-stake (DPoS) projects.
2020-3-31 23:05 | |
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US-based blockchain firm Hedera Hashgraph launched its mainnet on Monday. Despite being supported by some large companies, skeptics say its blockchain version lacks key features that ensure decentralization.
2019-9-19 21:00 | |
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Facebook took a hammering this week, with the proposed Libra currency taking fire from blockchain skeptics and decentralization advocates alike. But there is one silver lining to come from this weeks’ hearings: the prospect of a global, corporate digital cryptocurrency appears to have spurred Congress into action.
2019-7-18 19:31 | |
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BitTorrent’s use case and tokenization have been long debated by Tron skeptics. As BitTorrent heads for full-scale implementation on the Tron blockchain by the end of 2020, CEO of Tron Foundation, Justin Sun affirmed the launch of BitTorrent File System Testnet for July 1st.
2019-6-30 13:30 | |
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In the past few years, the conversation about cryptocurrency has taken on the tenor of a religious debate, with people either identifying as evangelists or skeptics, maximalists or minimalists.
2019-6-23 17:00 | |
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The CFTC chief delivered more than an earful about the way some outsiders really feel about bitcoin. J. Christopher Giancarlo, chairman of the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), is nearing retirement when his term ends later this month.
2019-4-6 02:30 | |
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Financial advisors only need to be educated on Bitcoin (BTC) to turn from skeptics to believers. Ric Edelman staged a Blockchain and Cryptoasset Pre-Event with Barron’s Top Independent Advisor Summit ten days ago.
2019-3-30 17:00 | |
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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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In the damp and drizzly Pacific northwestern city of Seattle, NEO (remember them?) held their DevCon conference last weekend. It was a chance for the passionate City of Zion developers, dApp developers, NEO enthusiasts, and skeptics alike to come together to find out about the cryptocurrency project’s ambitious plans moving forward – and, of course, to hear from charismatic founder Da Hongfei.
2019-2-24 00:55 | |
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It has been ten years since cryptocurrencies originally emerged, and these days, there are those who believe that their time has already passed. Skeptics have been calling Bitcoin and every altcoin that followed a bubble for years now, although they gained a lot more confidence since the market crash of early 2018. However, while the […]
2019-2-17 09:21 | |
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Blockchain skeptics wrongly assume that the technology is in stasis, writes Michael J. Casey.
2019-2-11 11:05 | |
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With 2018 in the rear-view mirror (finally), the crypto industry is embracing what’s to come in 2019. The blockchain community has a way of looking at the glass half full, focusing on the hodlers and buidlers instead of the infighting and the skeptics.
2019-1-3 17:30 | |
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In recent years, as “Bitcoin”, “Ethereum”, and “blockchain” became common sounds in the global vernacular, a number of innovation-friendly corporations and forward-thinking startups have sought to implement this nascent innovation into their businesses.
2018-11-27 14:00 | |
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Thailand's Democrat Party has become the first political party to use blockchain technology to elect its leaders in a primary election, which was held from November 1–9, 2018.
2018-11-14 01:06 | |
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Tanzania is intent on getting into bed with blockchain tech, but wise officials have urged caution before rushing into anything. The Tanzanian government is prepping to conduct thorough research into distributed ledgers (DLT), but the move already has its skeptics, local media reports.
2018-10-29 16:40 | |
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A Rebuttal to Dr. Doom’s Negative Statements Since cryptocurrencies became popular, a few skeptics have made it a point of duty to consistently denigrate and belittle the technology, spreading irrational fear and doubt in the process.
2018-10-27 21:52 | |
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I recently attended a panel of cryptocurrency experts (some of them skeptics) talking about cryptocurrency and then blockchain. The panel included computer science experts, investors, financial advisors, and intellectual property lawyers.
2018-9-27 17:00 | |
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The world of blockchain innovation is a tide pool of information that has left many cryptocurrency skeptics in the dark, but for decentralized security, a light is coming. Lighthouse: an open-source Ethereum 2.
2018-9-20 07:00 | |
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While the internet only started out as a military research project in the 1960s, it has since become the single largest computer network in the world, disseminating information, news, and entertainment at an unprecedented scale.
2018-9-20 21:00 | |
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The history of stablecoins in cryptocurrency has been a volatile one. It is a story not just of stability but also of skepticism, scrutiny and speculation. There have been enthusiasts who swear by it and skeptics who question their very existence.
2018-9-13 16:14 | |
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Controversy has ensued online as recent research published by Invest In Blockchain finds that out of the top 100 cryptocurrencies in the world by market cap, only 36 have working products.
2018-8-21 00:29 | |
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In one of his latest tweets, antivirus software mogul turned crypto influencer, John McAfee, took a dig at the people claiming to have hacked the “unhackable” crypto wallet known as BitFi. He not only mocked these people but also talked extensively to both supporters and skeptics within the tweet thread.
2018-8-16 17:58 | |
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Recently at the ChainXchange blockchain conference, Paul Krugman took center stage at a panel of Bitcoin skeptics and supporters including Ripple Chief Market Strategist Cory Johnson and market research guru Thomas Lee.
2018-8-16 16:00 | |
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The second day of Las Vegas Blockchain Week and the ChainXchange blockchain convention has concluded. Today’s activities included discussions and lectures carried out by prominent cryptocurrency supporters and skeptics, including representatives from Ripple and NEM, as well as Nobel Prize winning economist and perpetual crypto bear Paul Krugman.
2018-8-15 09:10 | |
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While IBM has been cautious to back cryptocurrency projects, the New York-based technology giant has still been doing its best to make a successful foray into the blockchain space. But as some skeptics see it, IBM hasn’t done much to make a meaningful impact on this flowering industry.
2018-8-10 18:00 | |
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The debate over the legitimacy of Bitcoin as a currency has persisted since the beginning of the creation of the coin. When the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto rolled out the Bitcoin blockchain years ago, skeptics almost immediately began to argue that the currency would quickly peter out, losing value as quickly as it had gained notoriety. […]
2018-8-10 11:18 | |
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Cryptocurrencies made waves in 2017 when skyrocketing prices made countless investors millionaires almost overnight. While these digital currencies are gaining acceptance among the general population, there are still crypto skeptics such as Paul Krugman who remain unimpressed.
2018-8-9 16:40 | |
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Nexus is one of several blockchain startups trying to revive mutual insurance. Its first product will cover the risks of ethereum smart contracts.
2018-8-7 15:00 | |
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Dogecon, new GPUs and the potential future of payments – these and more in this week's All Things Alt.
Decentralized platform BitHalo enables the creation of trustless, two-party transactions and smart contracts.
Bitcoin's consensus mechanism is great, but it isn't perfect. This article looks at some of the more viable public blockchain alternatives.
Even with a tumultuous past and harsh critics, stablecoin projects keep popping up, aiming to relieve some of the volatility in the crypto markets.
CoinDesk explores the alternative digital currency monero and its long road to becoming of the industry's most talked-about projects.
Bitcoin developer Peter Todd proposes that stealth address will allow for increased anonymity on the block chain.