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Pierre Rochard: “Lightning Adoption Will Basically Mirror Bitcoin Adoption”
Lightning is a second-layer solution for the Bitcoin blockchain that addresses the scaling issues surrounding it today. Similar to Bitcoin, Lightning is an open-source protocol in which anyone can contribute to. дальше »
2018-12-19 02:34 | |
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A CBC Casper Tutorial
In order to help more people understand “the other Casper” (Vlad Zamfir’s CBC Casper), and specifically the instantiation that works best for blockchain protocols, I thought that I would write an explainer on it myself, from a less abstract and more “close to concrete usage” point of view. дальше »
2018-12-6 04:03 | |
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ICO Treasuries Account For Nearly 4% Of All Ether Supply But Not The Cause For ETH Price Free Fall
On Tuesday, Ethereum saw the lowest price it had experienced in 18 months, bringing it down to $135 at 10:00am EST. Based on reports from The Block, it does not look like anyone knows why so many investors are selling off their tokens. дальше »
2018-11-21 10:46 | |
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Monero Activity Halves After Hard Fork
Monero (XMR) does a great job at hiding from prying eyes. It is a privacy coin, after all. But although expected to be one of the big winners in 2019, new evidence suggests Monero activity is decreasing, partly because of last month’s hard fork. дальше »
2018-11-15 22:02 | |
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Blockstream Releases Full Node Access, Wallet, Block Explorer for Liquid
Blockstream has released a full node and wallet client for its newly released Liquid, along with a fresh-out-the-box block explorer to monitor transactions and other data on the sidechain. дальше »
2018-11-9 19:22 | |
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Goldman Sachs Clients Eager To Trade Bitcoin Derivatives, But Patient To Launch New Products
In a recent report published by The Block, it has been noted that renowned investment bank, Goldman Sachs does not plan to launch new products when it comes to cryptocurrencies. Goldman Sachs has made several headlines for having settled in the sidelines in spite of their vocal support for the digital asset. In May 2018, […] дальше »
2018-10-31 09:41 | |
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Op Ed: In Defense of Bitcoin: A Response to Nouriel Roubini
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. дальше »
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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Coinbase Ditches Its Index Fund in Favor of a New Retail Feature
Coinbase – one of the largest digital currency exchanges in the U. S. – is nixing its index fund designed for accredited investors and shifting its focus to a new retail product, The Block reportshttps://theblockcrypto. дальше »
2018-10-14 04:27 | |
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Coinbase Has Just Added ZRX, Its First ERC-20 Token
Making good on a promise it made back in March of this year, Coinbase has just added its first ERC-20 token. ZRX, the token of the 0x (pronounced “zero x”) protocol began trading on Coinbase Pro (formerly GDAX), the exchange’s professional trading platform, on October 11, 2018. дальше »
2018-10-13 23:50 | |
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Federal Election Committee Asked to Consider Crypto Mining for Political Contributions
OsiaNetwork LLC has reached out to the Federal Election Committee (FEC) in the hopes that it will allow computer sharing for crypto mining for campaign donations. Osia says it would like to be the platform in which volunteers share their computer power to mine cryptocurrencies, which are then donated to political campaigns of their choice. дальше »
2018-10-5 23:57 | |
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Battle of the Privacycoins: What We Know About Grin and Beam’s Mimblewimble
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited. дальше »
2018-10-2 17:27 | |
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Novice, Intermediate or Expert? A Quiz to Test Your Bitcoin Knowledge
Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape. дальше »
2018-9-26 02:13 | |
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Study Reveals Growing Sophistication in Malicious Mining of Cryptocurrency
Several Chinese researchers from Fudan University, Tsinghua University and the University of California Riverside have produced the first systematic study of the malicious mining of cryptocurrencies, known as cryptojacking, unveiling increasing complexity over time. дальше »
2018-9-25 23:59 | |
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DevCon 4 Will Set the Stage for Ethereum’s Next Milestone: Constantinople
Ethereum is embracing the Constantinople milestone at the end of November 2018, after DevCon4 in Prague. Constantinople is the latest Ethereum release, introduced through a hard fork, that will include five Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs):Bitwise shifting instructions (EIP 145) in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) allow for direct manipulation of bytes on the EVM layer. дальше »
2018-9-11 18:15 | |
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Battle of the Privacycoins: Why Dash Is Not Really That Private
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited. дальше »
2018-9-7 00:27 | |
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Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term
One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”). дальше »
2018-8-28 04:03 | |
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U.S. SEC Denies Nine More Bitcoin ETFs
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) just put nine more bitcoin exchange traded funds (ETFs) on the chopping block. In three separate orders issued on August 22, 2018, the agency nixed the proposals and contingent rule changes for ETF filings submitted by ProShares, GraniteShares and Direxion. дальше »
2018-8-23 18:18 | |
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Dutch Trader Loses Reclamation Suit Against Banks That Froze His Accounts
In November 2016, a Dutch cryptotrader tried to buy his first 10 bitcoin, first using funds from his ING bank and later from ABN Amro. Both banks denied the transactions. дальше »
2018-8-18 23:22 | |
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STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials
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. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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New block game partners with WAX and OPSkins Marketplace
War Riders is a massively multiplayer online (MMO) strategy game based on earning cryptocurrency, customizing vehicles and battling opponents. As the popularity of blockchain games and Crypto Collectibles™ grows, so does the need for a trustworthy marketplace, which is where WAX and OPSkins come in. дальше »
2018-7-14 08:37 | |
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Op-Ed: Challenge of Mining Centralization Unveils Bitcoin’s Elegant Design
Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away. дальше »
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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Bitmain Nears 51% of Network Hash Rate: Why This Matters and Why It Doesn’t
Recent Bitcoin block data shows that Bitcoin’s mining pools BTC. com, AntPool and ConnectBTC, respectively mined about 25. 7 percent, 16. 1 percent and 0. 2 percent of all new blocks over the past week. дальше »
2018-6-29 23:07 | |
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How to Slow Down a Startup: Erik Voorhees’ Hard Lesson
The Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network has added a new show to its lineup, “What Bitcoin Did. ” The WBD podcast is hosted by U. K. -based Peter McCormack, an “accidental Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency investor, miner, blogger and podcaster. дальше »
2018-6-26 20:34 | |
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The Genesis Files: If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It
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. дальше »
2018-6-15 23:31 | |
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Popular Plugin Is About To Expose A lot Of Users To The Benefits Of Blockchain
With over 500 Million users, Adblock Plus could be considered a very popular plug-in/web browser extension. If you’re not aware of it, Adblock Plus is a piece of advert-blocking software that uses its inbuilt technology to block adverts within various different web browsers, from Safari to Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, to name but a few. дальше »
2018-6-14 15:30 | |
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New Coinbase Additions: Ethereum Classic and Crypto Index Fund
Coinbase dominated headlines across the space this week with a pair of significant developments. The San Francisco–based exchange announced on Monday, June 11, its intention to add Ethereum Classic to its trading platform and then quickly followed the news on Tuesday with the official opening of a crypto index fund. дальше »
2018-6-14 01:32 | |
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