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Ross Ulbricht’s Petition Gains Traction From Industry Leaders After Cries For His Release

Ross Ulbricht, who founded the anonymous Silk Road trading site, is currently serving two life sentences in prison for his affiliation with the site, locked away from the eyes of the world. However, many in the cryptocurrency community still think of him as the one who started it all, the one who brought Bitcoin to […] The post Ross Ulbricht’s Petition Gains Traction From Industry Leaders After Cries For His Release appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-7-23 04:54


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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


‘Expert’ states XRP [XRP] is a security, Ripple adopted a “wrong regulatory approach”

The XRP [XRP] token is under regulatory scrutiny, as its status has not yet been decided by the United States Securities and Exchanges Commission [SEC]. Even as Bitcoin [BTC] and Ethereum [ETH] have been safe from being declared as securities, the status of the third largest cryptocurrency is still mired in confusion. This is reflected […] дальше »

2018-7-20 14:27


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Bitmain to Open 20000 Sq. Foot Office in Silicon Valley

Bitmain continues to consolidate itself as the world leader in the crypto mining market; and the expansion plans of Jihan Wu, its CEO, are still underway after a steady stream of successes. The company that created the famous Bitcoin ASICs “Antminers” has decided to expand its operations to the United States, and did it in […] The post Bitmain to Open 20000 Sq. дальше »

2018-7-19 20:29


Trade Cryptocurrency with Ease and Security – Singapore-based Cryptocurrency Trading Platform Tokenize Xchange Announces Initial Token Offering

Singapore, 16 July 2018 – Singapore’s leading cryptocurrency trading platform, Tokenize Xchange, has announced its Initial Coin Offering (ICO) sale. Despite the sea of emerging ICOs and other blockchain based platforms, the access to such cryptocurrency tokens is still severely lacking. дальше »

2018-7-16 13:50


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The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name. дальше »

2018-7-13 17:16


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CryptoKitties finally finds a real use-case in charity auction for sea turtles

CryptoKitties, the cutesy blockchain game where you can collect, customize, breed, and inevitably pimp out virtual cats is still apparently still a thing. Once so popular that it brought Ethereum to its very knees, dwindling interest has spurred them to adopt a more holistic way to get people to spend money on seemingly worthless vanity tokens. дальше »

2018-7-11 17:31