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Bitcoin worth $300,000 at the center of an alleged scandal involving Brazil’s Justice Minister, The Intercept

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been in the news for all the wrong reasons several times over the years, after its use for a range of nefarious and illegal activities. The Silk Road, a darknet marketplace that was closed down by the FBI and DEA, is the most popular example of the same. дальше »

2019-6-18 21:30


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


Bitcoin Traders in Japan to See More Government Interference For $93 Million in Undisclosed Revenue

There are more than a few countries in the world where cryptocurrency is largely frowned at. China, for example, isn’t the most receptive to crypto as the government not only openly condemns it but also tries to pass laws that ensure that the growth of the cryptocurrency sector is as stifled as possible. Even though […] дальше »

2019-6-6 23:33


Forget The Trolling, Justin Sun Of Tron (TRX) Just Pulled A Chess Move Beneficial For Crypto

Forget The Trolling, Justin Sun Just Pulled A Chess Move Beneficial For Crypto Fake it till you make it. This seems to be the slogan for TRON’s founder Justin Sun. Unfortunately, his aggressive marketing stunts have, in most cases, left a bad taste in the mouth of the crypto community. For example, last year, Sun […] дальше »

2019-6-5 19:55


SEC’s Hester Peirce urges crypto-community to ‘walk the regulators through the technology’

The uncertain regulatory climate with respect to the cryptocurrency ecosystem has led to detrimental consequences, with the geofencing of crypto-tokens by Poloniex being a recent example.  The Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Hester Peirce, had previously expressed her fears regarding the delay of the same. дальше »

2019-6-4 21:30


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Op Ed: Debunking Bitcoin Myths: ‘It’s a Ponzi Scheme’

The accusation that bitcoin is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme is perhaps the oldest, longest-standing criticism of the digital bearer asset. The basic idea is that there is nothing of value here and the entire purpose of bitcoin’s existence is to enrich Satoshi Nakamoto and the speculators who bought in for a few pennies or dollars in the early days by tricking others into buying in at a higher price. дальше »

2019-6-4 19:03


Black Canvas: Swiss Telecom Giant Brings Blockchain Art Direct To TV

The emergence of a buzzing crypto tech startup scene around Zug’s Crypto Valley has given unusual blockchain projects the impetus to take big ideas to the market. As an example: the country’s biggest telecom provider, which is backed by the Swiss government, has announced Noow, a blockchain service that allows customers to access digital artworks. дальше »

2019-5-27 20:27


Bitcoin Is Plagued by an Insidious Flaw – But It’s Not What You Think

By CCN: Bitcoin has a crippling governance problem, but it’s not what you think it is. Technical solutions deftly manage consensus on the world’s most popular cryptocurrency network. But how will we deal with wealth inequality – and the power imbalance that inevitably accompanies it? To put it bluntly: Wealth inequality will not magically disappear in the new Bitcoin economy. дальше »

2019-5-26 17:45


More Than Money: Bitcoin Blockchain As Global Data Verification System

On the Bitfury blog, Executive Vice Chairman, George Kikvadze, delivers a use-case for the Bitcoin blockchain as a security layer. In an ever digital world, why do we still rely on paper documentation for our most important pieces of information? Many Paper Documents Already Function Digitally Kikvadze highlights the example of an international flight to illustrate the phenomena. дальше »

2019-5-22 22:00


Hyperledger Sawtooth: Performance Problem and the way to solve it

The Hyperledger global initiative within the Open Source movement, bringing together hundreds of technology giants [for example, Huawei, Intel, and Samsung], startups [Blockstream, Lykke, Consensys] and solutions [Netki, Factom, bloq], has become a real push for the entire blockchain industry in forming not only a strong community but also a completely different perception of technology […] The post Hyperledger Sawtooth: Performance Problem and the way to solve it appeared first on AMBCrypto. дальше »

2019-5-22 18:30


Research reveals surprising relationship between climate change and fertility rate

Climate change will shape every aspect of human life – often in complex ways. Take the question of deciding how many children to have, for example. A new analysis suggests that climate change could increase fertility rates in tropical countries, in turn magnifying the impacts of climate change on those countries and widening the gap between wealthy and poorer nations. дальше »

2019-5-21 18:04