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Bank of Canada’s Bitcoin Awareness Report Shows 58% of Owners Buy For Investment Reasons

Most Canadian Bitcoin Owners Use It For Investment Purposes Only A report by Bank of Canada (BoC) published on July 23rd shows that 58% of Canadians own Bitcoin for investment purposes. The top four reasons for Canadians owning Bitcoin, according to the study, were: purchasing it as an investment, friends owning Bitcoin, being interested in […] дальше »

2018-7-25 01:47


A study on issues of competition in fintech, commissioned by the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs was published July 20. It found that central bank-issued digital currencies could be a “remedy” for a lack of

Europen Union Study shows central banks coming together with their own digital currencies, i.e., CBDCs could mean an end of the journey for the decentralized digital tokens. Bitcoin has been struggling for quite some time for its mainstream adoption, as crypto investors and enthusiasts are waiting for developers to bring a robust scalability solution. On дальше »

2018-7-23 18:43


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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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Coinbase Currently Controls Their Own PAC

San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider Coinbase has created its own political action committee (PAC), according to documents made public today, July 20. In the U.S., PACs are organizations that pool campaign contributions from members with similar policy and political goals and subsequently donate them to political campaigns for or against candidates, legislation, or дальше »

2018-7-21 09:20


Chongqing Financial Asset Exchange (CQFAE) Looks to Blockchain For Fair Auctions

Blockchain Can Keep Online Auctions Fair According To Financial Exchange Everyone knows that China does not love cryptocurrencies, but the blockchain technology stands on its own and even if you are like China and you do not see Bitcoin in a positive light, there is still a use case for blockchain tech. Recently, a financial […] дальше »

2018-7-21 01:44


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Huobi Dispatches Assistance to Produce Crypto Exchanges in the Cloud

Huobi, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange platform by trade volume, is now offering a business arm to help customers build their own digital asset exchanges. Dubbed the Huobi Cloud, the service is set up to provide clients “a one-stop solution … [to enable] its partners to build secure and stable digital asset exchanges quickly,” according дальше »

2018-7-21 01:17


Former Trump Advisor Steve Bannon Working on His Own Cryptocurrency, Supports Bitcoin, Calls Most ICOs ‘Disasters’

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon announced yesterday that he supports Bitcoin and that he is currently developing his own cryptocurrency. During an interview published by CNBC on Wednesday at the eighth annual Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha conference in New York, Bannon stated, “I like bitcoin. дальше »

2018-7-20 10:27


Former Trump Advisor Steve Bannon Working on His Own Cryptocurrency, Supports Bitcoin, Calls Most ICOs ‘Disasters’

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon announced yesterday that he supports Bitcoin and that he is currently developing his own cryptocurrency. During an interview published by CNBC on Wednesday at the eighth annual Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha conference in New York, Bannon stated, “I like bitcoin. дальше »

2018-7-20 23:16