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Another Fake Partnership as Samsung Denies CopPay Crypto Payments Deal

On July 20 reports circulated that a partnership between electronics giant Samsung and Lithuanian crypto payment and blockchain startup CopPay was in the works. The deal was set to make it possible for Samsung customers in three Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — to pay for in-store purchases with cryptocurrencies. дальше »

2018-7-24 14:00


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When Smart Contracts Act Stupid: Is Your ICO Smart Contract Safe & Secure?

The potential inherent in smart contracts is immense. The nascent technology may be used for identity verification, secure data sharing, and for the management of tokens and raised funds in an initial coin offering/token sale – but just how clever are your smart contracts? The Ethereum network boasts more than 1500 decentralized applications (dApps), all of which make use of smart contracts to accomplish a wide variety of tasks. дальше »

2018-7-24 03:00


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Meet Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Industry’s Top Female Advocates

The increasing number of women in the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain has been increasing in the last few years. According to the most commonly cited research papers, women make about 9% of the total personalities in the field consisting of developers, managers, and investors. In the last six months the number has increased to […] дальше »

2018-7-23 19:57


Pearl Pay Fintech Firm Creates Revolutionary System to Transform Philippines Remittance Industry

Pearl Pay Fintech startup has announced the launch of its groundbreaking remittance system that would make it easier for Filipinos all over the globe to carry out remittances, seamlessly. Pearl Pay has been helping Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises to facilitate transactions with its innovative financial services. дальше »

2018-7-23 15:26


MyEtherWallet добавил возможность покупки Ethereum за фиатные валюты

Один из самых популярных кошельков для Ethereum и ERC20-токенов MyEtherWallet объявил о реализации новой функции – возможности покупки ETH с помощью карт Visa или MasterCard. Howdy MEWfam! 😎 We thought that we’d make using MEW easier for you, so we’ve partnered up with @SimplexCC, which allows you to directly buy ETH without having to go […] дальше »

2018-7-23 09:21


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Huobi Global Launches Blockchain Plus Initiative and Cloud Service

In a bid to make adoption and integration of blockchain technology a frictionless process for startups as well as corporations in the distributed ledger technology ecosystem, Huobi Global, the third largest cryptocurrency exchange by 24 hour trading volume, has announced  on July 20, 2018, preparations for the creation of the Huobi Blockchain Plus Industry Alliance and its Cloud service for. дальше »

2018-7-22 18:00


EOS Price Continues to Depreciate Since Mainnet Launch, Investors Disappointed

EOS Depreciates to Half its Price Since its Launch, Investors Disappointed After a month of EOS mainnet launch, it is evident that it has not lived up to its hype. There was a lot of anticipation for EOS to make a big impact in making blockchain more accessible to businesses. This excitement led EOS to […] дальше »

2018-7-22 12:32


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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