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A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus

Special thanks to Emin Gun Sirer for review We’ve heard for a long time that it’s possible to achieve consensus with 50% fault tolerance in a synchronous network where messages broadcasted by any honest node are guaranteed to be received by all other honest nodes within some known time period (if an attacker has more than 50%, they can perform a “51% attack”, and there’s an analogue of this for any algorithm of this type). дальше »

2018-8-9 04:03


Republia ICO

Republia is a large-scale decentralized ecosystem, that includes elements of the countries that are familiar to us in the digital space and operates mechanisms based on blockchain technology. The coordination structure of Republia is analogous to “we-government” model that is aimed at direct management of the ecosystem, without involving the relevant regulatory institutions. дальше »

2018-8-3 14:17


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The new Head of the Global Institutional Markets welcomes Jamie Selway

We’re excited to welcome the latest addition to our institutional team, Jamie Selway as our Global Head of Institutional Markets. Jamie is a widely respected expert on electronic trading and market structure and the former Head of Electronic Brokerage and Head of Execution Services at the global agency broker-dealer and trading technology firm Investment Technology дальше »

2018-8-1 20:36


Distributed Credit Chain CEO To Setup Crypto Governance Program With Oxford Business

Stewie Zhu, the CEO of Distributed Credit Chain, an Oxford Alumnus, has decided to collaborate with Oxford’s Said Business School in the setting up of the DDC Career Development Fellow program. The fellowship post will assist in nurturing studies which will offer understandings into establishing a supervisory structure for cryptos, including the development of innovative […] дальше »

2018-7-28 18:39


OpenBrix ICO (BRIX Token): Blockchain Real State Property Network?

The fragmentation and centralization with our property sector are leading to plenty of issues such as wire fraud, mortgage defrauding among others. Consequently, the rigid structure of our real estate market is also responsible for a considerable number of assets lost or millions in funds during the transactions. Such a situation has led to plenty […] дальше »

2018-7-23 15:28


South Korean financial regulator to fit cryptocurrency innovation in its new structure

According to Forbes, the Financial Services Commision [FSC], South Korea’s financial regulatory authority is looking to develop the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. The FSC plans to do this by restructuring itself to accommodate the existence of the Financial Innovation Bureau and to ‘proactively respond to financial innovation in the fourth industrial revolution era’. In a […] дальше »

2018-7-22 06:28


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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


Binance is One-Year-Old, Celebrates by Announcing a Tiered Fee Discount Program

The cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance has announced a new loyalty program for its users. The news coincides with them reducing the BNB discount rate as per their white paper. Binance Reduce BNB Discounts, Introduce New Fee Structure Since their launch this time last year, Binance offered its users unique savings if they used their own. дальше »

2018-7-19 21:00


Mastercard Files Patent to Link Fiat and Cryptocurrency Transactions

Payment titan Mastercard was awarded a patent for developing a method of linking cryptographic forms of money to fiat currency accounts. Mastercard Aims to Augment Cryptocurrency Adoption Granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on July 17, 2018, the patent details a structure that manages “fractional reserves of blockchain currency. дальше »

2018-7-19 22:00


IBM stays strong with the blockchain juggernaut, releases a new stable coin

On 17th July, International Business Machines [IBM] announced the launch of Stronghold USD, a cryptocurrency-USD pair that is created on the Stellar blockchain structure. Financial institution Stronghold announced on their Medium blog that they have collaborated with IBM to “explore uses for Stronghold USD within blockchain business networks on the IBM Blockchain platform”. Stronghold’s tweet about the […] дальше »

2018-7-18 15:24


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Promoted: The Future of Online Shopping Is Powered by Spl.yt — A Decentralized E-Commerce Protocol

As a rapidly growing business sector, e-commerce continues to open up new avenues for exploring, comparing and purchasing products worldwide. Spl. yt, a smart contract protocol, aims improve the e-commerce system for buyers and sellers by automating functions currently performed by “middlemen” marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba. дальше »

2018-7-16 19:45


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Crypto miners get updated power rate structure approved by NY state officials.

New York state regulators have approved a new electricity rate scheme for cryptocurrency miners that will allow them to negotiate contracts, Bloomberg reported July 12. According to Bloomberg, several months ago the state of New York gave permission to 36 municipal power authorities to charge crypto miners more than other consumers. The Massena municipal utility дальше »

2018-7-13 06:31


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Big Changes Ahead At Ripple

Ripple have announced two big changes within their staff structure that could well see some of Ripples operations take on a new direction. According to a recent post by Ripple, David Schwartz, the former Chief Cryptographer at Ripple has been appointed the new role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Kahina Van Dyke has been appointed the role of Senior Vice President, Business and Corporate Development. дальше »

2018-7-12 08:00