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BNC Research: DAOs are disrupting the governance & wealth distribution model of the corporation

This report looks at the future constraints for the shareholder model in its current form, and why decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) will be superior to today’s corporate firm structure. For investors, DAOs will eventually become a less risky investment class compared to shares in a regular company, offering more predictable ROI and better passive returns than most stock dividends - while also minimizing two of the greatest risks in corporate operations - human error and executive self-interest. дальше »

2019-6-25 05:00


Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding

Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions. дальше »

2019-6-14 04:03


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LocalBitcoins Denies Service to Iranian Users

The popular peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network LocalBitcoins has shut down all trading operations for Iranian users. LocalBitcoins’ website offers a variety of pages for users of different nations and, as of May 24, 2019, the Iranian page displays a message that “LocalBitcoins is currently not available in your selected region,” in English only. дальше »

2019-5-25 20:14


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Constantinople Hard Fork Offers Ray of Hope Parity’s Frozen Millions

Parity Technologies “lost” access to 500,000 ether in a high-profile coding error in November 2017 and has been appealing to Ethereum developers for a software change to bail them out. The successful implementation last month of the Constantinople hard fork has offered Parity Technologies a strong case to begin a process that could see themRead MoreRead More. дальше »

2019-3-6 00:00


Indian Public Sector Bank Leaks Millions of Customers’ Data, Merit of Bitcoin

A human error led to the leak of millions of customers’ data at an Indian public sector bank, raising questions on the merit of Bitcoin over banks. State Bank of India, a government-owned corporation, forgot to secure essential server information that held customers’ messages, bank balances, transaction details, and other related details. дальше »

2019-1-31 18:31


S. Korean Exchange Accidentally Sends $5 Million Worth of Bitcoin (BTC) In Error During Airdrop

An airdrop mishap worth $5 Million in Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies was sent to customers of the South Korean exchange of CoinZest. The exchange was meant to send an airdrop of We Game Tokens (WGT) but a computer error resulted in users not only getting BTC and other cryptocurrencies, but deposits in the fiat […] The post S. дальше »

2019-1-22 16:46


Ethereum Constantinople Delayed Until February 27th (Last Date of VanEck Bitcoin ETF Verdict)

Ethereum Constantinople Delayed To Late-February Earlier this week, Ethereum World News reported that Ethereum’s long-planned Constantinople blockchain upgrade fell upon hard times, with developers drawing attention to an error in the protocol’s code, which would purportedly allow malicious attackers to drain ETH from smart contracts. дальше »

2019-1-18 22:02


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Amazon Web Services outage forces major cryptocurrency exchanges offline

Two major South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges have been forced offline, after critical Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers suffered nationwide failure Thursday morning. AWS, one of the world’s widely used cloud services, was hit with major internal server failures that brought popular digital asset exchanges, Upbit and Coinone, to a screeching halt. дальше »

2018-11-22 14:31


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2FA codes are great for security, except when 26M of them are leaked

Just when you thought two-factor authentication was enough to secure your online accounts, a troubling discovery shows how this system can be comprised, thanks to human error. TechCrunch reports that a database of text messages containing more than 26 million 2FA codes, password reset links, and delivery tracking details was left out in the open … This story continues at The Next Web дальше »

2018-11-16 13:22