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Entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk Tells Crypto Community To Practice Patience

American-Belarusian Entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk Requests The Crypto Community To Practice Patience The volatility in the crypto market has been making crypto investors crypto investors anxious. However, Gary Vaynerchuk, during the Chainxchange conference in Vegas reminded us all that we are still really early in this space and we need to deploy more patience. Gary Vaynerchuk […] дальше »

2018-8-21 21:33


What Is Detokenization: Will Blockchain And Initial Coin Offerings Be A Passing Fad?

Issuing a token, also known as “tokenization,” has become a very popular practice in the past few years. The amount of blockchain platforms has been growing as well – or so it seems. One firm, Latvian Startup Digipulse recently announced that it is planning on “de-tokenizing” itself. In its posting, the platform stated, “We definitely […] дальше »

2018-8-12 23:10


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The SEC Is Delaying Another Bitcoin ETF Decision

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is in no hurry to review the pile of Bitcoin ETF filings it has been accumulating over the past year. Not three weeks since postponing its decision on five other Bitcoin ETFs, the SEC has indicated in a public statement that it will be delaying its decision to approve or reject SolidX Bitcoin Shares until late September. дальше »

2018-8-8 17:15


Wrongfully Accused ‘Pirate’ Wants $62,818 Compensation

For more than a decade, file-sharers around the world have been pressured to pay significant settlement fees, or face worse in court. The practice is particularly common in the United States. While there is only a small group of independent companies involved, thousands of people are taken to court each year. These efforts, often characterized […] дальше »

2018-8-8 06:36


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Blockchain project for sustainable sugar has been awarded a grant by the Australian Government

The Australian government has granted A$2. 25 million ($1. 7 million) to the Sustainable Sugar Project, Foodnavigator-Asia reports July 30. The Sustainable Sugar Project, led by the Queensland Cane Growers Organization, will use blockchain technology to track the provenance of sugar supplies to Australia. дальше »

2018-7-31 10:07


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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


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Survey: 45% of security professionals reuse the same password

There’s a saying — “practice what you preach. ” If you give advice, make sure it’s something you follow personally. Turns out, some security pros aren’t doing that. A survey of 306 infosec professionals at London’s Infosecurity Conference 2008 from Lastline showed that 45 percent commit one of the biggest security cardinal sins — reusing passwords across accounts. дальше »

2018-7-18 11:29


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PoWx Seeks to Change Bitcoin Mining with “Optical PoW”

Nonprofit organization PoWx has launched this week with the goal of boosting the idea behind proof of work (PoW) through more innovative algorithms. The company is seeking to decentralize Bitcoin mining and make it more accessible to consumers through a new technology that executives have dubbed “optical PoW” — a new type of hardware that utilizes a more advanced and energy-efficient form of laser technology as the cornerstone of mining. дальше »

2018-7-14 01:04


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Bitcoin price statistics manipulated by Tether in 2017

In practice, just as Bitcoin, all the Tether transaction chain or ledger is public and can be accessed through https://www.omniexplorer.info. In the following plot I show the Tether printing events (gray vertical bars) corresponding from March 2017 to July 2018, together with the cumulative printed Tether in red, the Bitcoin price evolution and the Bitfinex/Tether дальше »

2018-7-13 06:19


The Pirate Bay Embraces In-Browser Monero Mining as a New Revenue Model

In-browser mining has gotten a very bad reputation over the past few months. This is primarily because so many websites use this model for nefarious purposes rather than legitimate uses. The Pirate Bay has previously experimented with in-browser cryptocurrency mining, and it seems the platform will maintain that business practice. The Pirate Bay Still Mines […] дальше »

2018-7-10 21:00