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Berkeley Professor Questions Stablecoin Viability in Unflattering Op-Ed

University of Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen has taken a swipe at the viability of stablecoins in an op-ed published on Project Syndicate. The critique, entitled “The Stable-Coin Myth,” argues stablecoins are not automatically "viable" just because they are pegged to an asset, though Eichengreen does believe they have an advantage over "conventional cryptocurrencies" such as bitcoin which he says "is highly unstable" and "unattractive as units of account. дальше »

2018-9-13 18:07


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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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Biting Down on Market Manipulation: Bitflyer Keeps Watch for Fall Relaunch

Japan Confirms Entrance Into the Crypto Space Bitflyer Cracks Down on Market Manipulation Bitflyer, Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, still does not accept new account signups. Bitflyer announced Thursday: In accordance with our Terms of Use, we may freeze accounts observed to have intentionally performed market manipulation or other forms of maliciously setting market дальше »

2018-7-29 07:15


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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


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


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


Chongqing Financial Asset Exchange (CQFAE) Looks to Blockchain For Fair Auctions

Blockchain Can Keep Online Auctions Fair According To Financial Exchange Everyone knows that China does not love cryptocurrencies, but the blockchain technology stands on its own and even if you are like China and you do not see Bitcoin in a positive light, there is still a use case for blockchain tech. Recently, a financial […] дальше »

2018-7-21 01:44


Changing credibility with blockchain through Targeting Media Ecology

In the process of shared transaction, media information is subject to being copied or washed by other media. Then how does the PR Chain break the asymmetry of information, making everyone the information center, making them resource link points, and establishing such “attention economy” blockchain media platform? Making use of the technology to protect information, дальше »

2018-7-21 01:24


Contents Protocol ICO (CPT Token): Blockchain Content Exchange?

Most online platforms are centralized and they have become the main option for consuming content as the subscription-based market continues to grow rapidly. However, the use of these platforms does come with a few challenges, which include the high commissions, unreliable licensing costs and exploitation of user contributions. Contents Protocol now offers an opportunity to […] дальше »

2018-7-18 15:37


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Op Ed: Addressing the Threat of Cryptomining Malware

One major class of attacks to hit the hacking landscape recently is cryptomining. While cryptomining on its own supports a good cause when being done consciously, it also allows nefarious actors to make a lot of money fast, and, with the sheer number of cryptocurrencies available to mine, it is becoming a popular choice for attackers. дальше »

2018-7-18 23:18