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This Berlin Startup is Disrupting Traditional VC Funding Through Tokenised Equity

Traditional venture capital (VC) funding is often plagued with long and complicated processes, making it difficult for company founders to connect with investors. For one company, that is creating the world’s first decentralised stock exchange in conjunction with Binance and the Malta Stock Exchange, it doesn’t have to be that way. дальше »

2018-7-31 01:00


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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


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CFA’s 2019 Exam to Include Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Syllabus

Already notorious for being incredibly difficult, the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program exams in 2019 feature questions on cryptocurrency and blockchain. The Most Brutal Test in Finance to Become Even Harder To be more precise, the CFA Institute is adding the crypto and blockchain topics to its Level I and II curriculums. дальше »

2018-7-20 17:00


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Amidst Bear Market, Crypto Miners Repurpose Mining Equipment

A growing number of cryptocurrency miners are finding other ways to put their equipment to use as depressed digital asset prices make it increasingly difficult to stay afloat in the market. This is the theme of a special report in the Los Angeles Times July 17, 2018, which outlines amongst other things, how a surplus in computing power is making crypto. дальше »

2018-7-20 13:00


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‘We’re In It For The Long Haul’ — CheapAir CEO on Dropping Coinbase [Interview]

Bitcoinist caught up with CheapAir CEO Jeff Klee to find out why exactly his company just switched from Coinbase to BTCPay Server. CheapAir. com has decided to double down in its support of Bitcoin at a time when many retailers, including Expedia, have made the difficult decision to drop Bitcoin payments due to problems with merchant processors like Coinbase and BitPay. дальше »

2018-7-18 19:00


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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


Monero’s Bulletproofs Implementation Receives a Favorable Audit

Monero’s developers have been working on various new features meant to improve the privacy-oriented currency. One of the developments to keep an eye on goes by the name of Bulletproofs. This particular feature has proven difficult to integrate, although an initial security audit by Kudelski Security shows the implementation is going according to plan. Bulletproofs Are […] дальше »

2018-7-17 19:00


Crypto Section added to CFA Exam in 2019

The notoriously difficult Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program exams are about to get that much tougher. Cryptocurrencies and blockchain will be part of a new CFA curriculum section dubbed “Fintech in Investment Management” alongside other topics in emerging financial technology such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and automated trading. CFA exams are said to attract дальше »

2018-7-17 09:06


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Promoted: The Future of Online Shopping Is Powered by Spl.yt — A Decentralized E-Commerce Protocol

As a rapidly growing business sector, e-commerce continues to open up new avenues for exploring, comparing and purchasing products worldwide. Spl. yt, a smart contract protocol, aims improve the e-commerce system for buyers and sellers by automating functions currently performed by “middlemen” marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba. дальше »

2018-7-16 19:45


TxStreet.com Bitcoin Transaction Visualizer Website Offers BTC & BCH Insight Tool

Although Bitcoin has been around for nearly five years, many crypto investors still do not seem to have a complete picture as to how its technology works. With so many specs to consider, including the likes of blocks, transactions, DLT, blockchain and so on, it makes understanding the concept far more difficult. This is where […] дальше »

2018-7-16 10:24