A quick guide to understanding blockchain smart contracts

Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. ‘Smart contracts’ is a term that gets thrown about quite often in the blockchain world, but there seems to be some confusion about what they are – and how they work. дальше »

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Ethereum Price Analysis: ETH Headwinds, Vitalik Has Liquidated 200k coins

Today's Ethereum News There is nothing wrong about being curious and hard but relevant questions. That is why the community is always sieving through blockchain data, trying to piece together information to demystify who Satoshi is. дальше »

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Five Hard To Ignore Cryptocurrencies In The Top 100 Destined For A Brighter Future On The Horizon

Cryptocurrencies In The Top 100 That Deserve To Make It Big This Year. A decade since Blockchain made its leap from a theoretical concept to actuality. Since then the concept has been synthesized by thousands of tokens. дальше »

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Bitcoin Twitter Loves Andrew Yang: Presidential Campaign #YangGang2020 #YangBucks Blockchain Mix

Bitcoin Twitter Loves Andrew Yang, Here’s Why There is a lot of hype building up around the U. S. presidential election of 2020. The Trump government continues to be controversial, so a lot of people are eager to know who has the potential to replace the current president. The Next Web’s Hard Fork has recently […] дальше »

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Numerai NMR Token Offering Secures $11 Million USD During Funding Round

Numerai Token Sale Raises $11 Million USD During Funding Round It is hard to get investment today. Not that it was ever very easy, but it was easier to sell any “utility” tokens back in 2017 when Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) were young and bright. дальше »

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Coinbase Crypto Company’s Centralization Clash With The Coin Community Is Coming To Light

Will Coinbase Survive It's Current Bad Press And Seeming Liquidation? Coinbase is currently facing a bit of a hard time and it looks like things might not get any better any time soon. The current issues could be traced to a number of things but regardless, many people think that Coinbase’s liquidation, if it eventually […] дальше »

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Dan Berkovitz: CFTC Is Working Hard on the Bakkt Application

U. S. CFTC commissioner Dan Berkovitz says the futures and options markets regulator is working hard on the Bakkt proposal. While he’s refused to provide an approval deadline, he did say that the agency is not anti-crypto or anti-blockchain. дальше »

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Here’s how much ‘Bitcoin Twitter’ loves presidential candidate Andrew Yang

The hype surrounding the US presidential election in 2020 is growing palpable, and one candidate, Andrew Yang, is getting significant attention from the cryptocurrency community. Yang, of the Democratic Party, is absolutely the favorite of internet memelords, but he isn’t the only one appealing to the blockchain crowd. дальше »

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CHEAP: Fast, get 42% off this 6TB (!) Western Digital external HDD

Welcome to Thursday’s edition of CHEAP, where I’m doing whorage for some storage. I’m getting psyched for some gigabytes. We’re having some pageantry for capacity. I’m… Actually, that’s all I’ve got. дальше »

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Here’s the difference between ICOs and IEOs

Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. People have been hailing security token offerings (STO) as the next initial coin offering (ICO), but there is momentum growing for a new type of blockchain-based fundraising. дальше »

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White House Warns Pakistan: Aggression Against India ‘Not Acceptable” as Nuclear Tensions Flare

The Trump White House has come down hard on nuclear-armed Pakistan, warning that its actions are unacceptable in the escalating war games with India. It’s the strongest message yet from the Trump administration as military tension between Pakistan and India threatens to spill over into all-out war. дальше »

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Here’s why you’re having issues with Reddit and Wikipedia in the EU

Redditors and Wikipedians (is that the correct term?) in the EU might have a hard time using their favorite websites today. The reason is the EU‘s upcoming Copyright Reform, which will be put to a vote on March 26. дальше »

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Jamie Dimon: U.S. Economy Has Failed Minorities and the Poor

CEO of JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon believes the U. S. economy systemically rolls over ethnic minority groups and economically disadvantaged people, making it difficult or impossible for them to gain economic footholds and compete fairly. дальше »

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Cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia resumes trading months after debilitating hack

Cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia has resumed trading following a debilitating hack in mid-January. The New Zealand-based company said on Twitter today that it had resumed trading “on 40 trade pairs […] quantified as secure,” adding that it would continue to expand its offering as more coins were cleared. дальше »

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New Bitcoin Blackmail Scheme Surfaces as Impostors Pose as CIA Agents to Steal Crypto Assets

Scammers are getting more creative every day. A crypto investor has affirmed on a Reddit post that some people are posing as CIA agents in order to con people into giving them $10,000 USD worth of Bitcoin (BTC). дальше »

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Will The Bitcoin ETF Ever Come Out? One Public Comment to SEC: BTC Doesn’t Have “Intrinsic Value”

Many cryptoanalysts and investors are basically convinced that the Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) will come out “soon”. When is it, though? This is what not a lot of people know. The fact is that, if the public is to be taken into account, the ETF might not actually be a reality. The Next Web’s Hard […] дальше »

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Avnet, A Fortune 500 Tech Company, Leverages BitPay To Accept Bitcoin And Bitcoin Cash Payments

Avnet, A Fortune 500 Tech Company, Now Accepts Crypto Payments Using BitPay The world is changing for the better. We see so many problems happening all the time that sometimes it is hard to actually notice how things are evolving. дальше »

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The Division 2 review: Good, shallow fun

Hi, my name is Nino, and I’m a loot shooter addict. Give me a game that lets me shoot stuff in exchange for better weapons, and I’ll play it until the next one comes along. I stuck with Destiny before Bungie made it good, I neglected my social life when The Division 1 came out, I cocooned hard when Destiny 2 was released, and I’ve even played an embarrassing amount of the woefully disappointing Anthem. дальше »

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StarTropics on Switch reminds us games used to be really weird

Given how sleek and digital modern gaming is, it’d hard to remember sometimes just how weird and arcane it used to be — and just when you’d forgotten, here comes a game like StarTropics to remind you. дальше »

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Sats Back: How the Ebates of Bitcoin Plans to Convert Holders to Spenders

“The biggest problem I could think of was distribution. How do you share and educate both consumers and merchants on the power of bitcoin? I learned how much consumers loved earning and why merchants make decisions to adopt new technology. дальше »

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Distributed Digest: Monday, March 18, 2019

The Lava Protocol is a new token transaction standard, Dean Eigenmann leaves ZK Labs and discusses EIP security incentives, and folks seem to be fine with an October Istanbul hard fork date.

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Inside Craig Wright’s blockchain patent ‘empire’

Steven Craig Wright, the man who has, on various occasions, claimed to be Bitcoin’s legendary creator (or creators) Satoshi Nakamoto is trying to build a cryptocurrency and blockchain patent empire. дальше »

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Why Bitcoin Cash Surged 20% to Headline Booming Crypto Market

Bitcoin Cash plummeted 75 percent in the wake of the cryptocurrency’s hard fork fiasco in November 2018. But that is not stopping the asset from crawling its way back into positive trading territory and headlining this week’s crypto market rally. дальше »

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Public Company Ether Capital Bets $1 Million on MakerDao’s Multi-Billion Dollar Potential

MakerDao is one of the exciting projects of this year. While Maker (MKR) cryptocurrency has been hot crypto as it registered significant gains, about $2 million worth of Ethereum has been locked in Collateralized Debt position (CDP). дальше »

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A Review of All Virtual Currency-Related Complaints From Last Year

In the realm of money, no bigger news topic has surfaced over the last several years than virtual currency. The rise in popularity among everyday consumers and those with advanced knowledge of digital currency has been hard to ignore, giving rise to more companies entering the market. дальше »

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Japanese Police Arrests 18-Year Old Hacker for Stealing $134,000 in Monacoin

Local prosecutors in Japan have charged an 18-year old male with cryptocurrency theft. Per a report published in a local news outlet, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of Japan are accusing the young adult of stealing 15 million Yen ($134,310) worth of stealing MonaCoin (MONA)—a Litecoin hard fork. дальше »

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How to Create Your Own Decentralized Prediction Market

The decentralized web is hard to use, complain its critics. And to be fair, they’ve had a point up until recently. With improved UX and new layer two solutions built on top of Web3 protocols, however, interacting with these technologies is getting easier. дальше »

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Ethereum’s ProgPow Mining Change Approved Again, But Timeline Unclear

Ethereum core developers reaffirmed during a meeting today that mining algorithm change "ProgPoW" would be added to a coming hard fork. дальше »

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How to Predict Crypto Price Trends, Explained

Volatility means following the crypto market is hard at the best of times. Here is in-depth data that can help you understand what’s driving the price changes

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Хакеры из White Hat за последний месяц обнаружили 43 ошибки в 13 криптокомпаниях

Хакеры из White Hat за последний месяц выявили 43 ошибки, проведя исследования в 13 криптокомпаниях, включая проект EOS и криптобиржу Coinbase. По сообщению издания Hard Fork, 13 компаний, работающих в сфере криптовалют и блокчейна, получили 43 отчета об имеющихся уязвимостях от хакеров White Hat только за последний месяц. дальше »

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What is Ethereum Staking And How Do You Stake Your ETH?

Ethereum is switching to Proof of Stake some time this or next year (with all the delays, hard to set a date). The Casper protocol has been formalized, the specification is complete, and now the implementation phase can begin. дальше »

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Who are you siding with in the Spotify-Apple antitrust war?

Earlier this week, Spotify filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Apple, claiming that the company – which runs the App Store for iOS software – treats rivals to its own services unfairly, with a range of restrictions and demands. дальше »

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How to Track Your Investments Online

The art of managing your finances is not hard to master, at least now, when there is a rich…

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Analysts Wary That Bitcoin (BTC)’s Lull Could Set Precedent For A(nother) Crypto Plunge

Bitcoin Price Action Looks Eerily Similar To Late-2018 Markets have patterns. There’s no hiding that non-secret. While these market trends may sometimes be hard to spot, sometimes, they’re more apparent than ever. дальше »

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Shell Is Looking For Graduates In Order To Find Use Cases For Blockchains For Oil And Gas

Royal Dutch Shell, the fifth largest oil and gas producer in the whole world, has recently decided to enter the blockchain game. Now, The Next Web’s Hard Fork has reported that the company is looking for graduates in science and technology courses who can provide it with a “blockchain analysis”. Basically, what Shell wants is […] дальше »

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Are Blockchains Secure? Hard Fork Investigation Reveals Over 40 Bugs Found On Multiple Platforms In Last Month

How Secure Are Blockchains? Investigation By Hard Fork Reveals Over 40 Bugs From Multiple Platforms In Last Month Blockchain technology was made with the purpose of offering immutability and secure data over a distributed ledger. дальше »

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Tether (USDT) Changes Terms, Implies they Are No Longer Dollar-Pegged

Tether (USDT) is once again the subject of suspicions as it was discovered that some sly changes have been made to their terms and conditions which brings into question their dollar-pegged status. The findings were brought to light via a Reddit post on March 14, 2019. дальше »

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Hear the story of WeTransfer’s CEO and more at TNW2019

Building a thriving company is never easy, which is why it’s great for entrepreneurs to learn from those who have done it before. Hearing the success stories of leaders in our industries can be really inspiring – but tapping into the knowledge of CEOs and founders of successful companies is a tough thing to do. дальше »

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Китай лидирует по количеству патентов на блокчейн

Всемирная организация интеллектуальной собственности: в 2018 году было выдано 1 060 патентов на разработку блокчейна. Поскольку технология блокчейна становится всё более востребованной, многие компании стремятся приобрести как можно больше патентов на её разработку. дальше »

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Security researchers found over 40 bugs in blockchain platforms in 30 days

White hat hackers have found more than 40 bugs in blockchain and cryptocurrency platforms in the past 30 days, according to an investigation by Hard Fork. There is a silver lining though: none of the vulnerabilities appear to be particularly serious at first glance. дальше »

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Bitcoin Cash Dev Announces Plans For November Hard Fork

Bitcoin Cash development is still going strong four months after its last upgrade. That means new features are in the pipeline and future upgrades are on the way. Details of the coin’s next hard fork, which will take place in May, have already been officially announced. дальше »

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Citowise Launches First Platform That Lets Users Acquire a Company with Bitcoin

After much testing and hard work, Citowise is announcing the first stage of their new platform – corporate. citowise. com With this solution, everyone can acquire a ready-made company with a crypto-friendly bank account in 4 jurisdictions: England, Cyprus, Marshall Islands, and Northern Ireland. дальше »

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Ethereum Longs Set a New Record High on Bitfinex wth Nearly 82% of Margins Positioned Long

The second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap of over $14 billion, Ethereum has been enjoying a lot of traction lately. After successfully releasing its Constantinople hard fork, Ethereum got another positive push in the form of exclusive support from Samsung Blockchain wallet along with Ethereum-derived tokens. дальше »

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Data: China has the most blockchain patents, despite banning cryptocurrency

Patents have always been controversial in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space because most projects are established on the premise of decentralization and open source code. It’s for this very reason that the notion of intellectual property (IP) is incredibly contentious. дальше »

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Mining Firm Canaan Creative Secures Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Funding

The sustained bear market has hit cryptocurrency miners hard and stalled the incredible growth experienced by hardware manufacturers that service the industry. It seems that investors are still willing to pour significant money into the business, however, judging by Canaan Creative’s latest raise. дальше »

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4 Facebook Ad tips for selling more e-commerce products overnight

When building an e-commerce brand, social media should play a vital role in helping you get the word out so you can reach new audiences and promote your products. Of course, as I’ve learned in my own e-commerce endeavors at Grit Daily and consulting elsewhere, not all Facebook Ad campaigns are created equal. дальше »

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Bittrex Reinvents the ICO: “Initial Exchange Offering,” Launches $6M Token Sale

Bittrex International, a US-based cryptocurrency exchange headquartered in Seattle, announced that it will be hosting the first Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) fof RAID’s XRD token later this month. дальше »

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Bittrex Launches First IEO: “Initial Exchange Offering,” $6M Token Sale for RAID Token

Bittrex International, a US-based cryptocurrency exchange headquartered in Seattle, announced that it will be hosting the first Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) for RAID’s XRD token later this month. дальше »

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Ripple–SWIFT Direct Partnership Slim, MD Points at Hard Numbers

Ripple price recover SWIFT is dominant, moves $300 billion a day Participation levels low, likely to rise as XRP prices edge higher. SWIFT partnership with Ripple in an arrangement that incorporates xRapid will cause XRP prices to explode. дальше »

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If May’s Brexit deal passes tonight, she’ll have 21 months to build a tech-powered Irish border

The Irish backstop is the biggest obstacle preventing Theresa May’s EU withdrawal agreement from squeaking through parliament. This legal instrument means that, should the UK fail to secure a deal that would permit an open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the former would remain in the European Union’s (EU) customs area and large parts of the single market. дальше »

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