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Blockchain Technology: It’s Incredible Capabilities And How They Change The Way We Live

Blockchain is blowing up our news feeds, and there’s good reason why: its ability to record and protect digital data will change the way we live in most facets of our life. MichaelWuensch / Pixabay While the newest technology may sound intimidating, the reality is the concept is pretty straightforward. Simply put blockchain is basically […] дальше »

2018-7-23 07:12


Why trading crypto is becoming a millionaire’s game — And how to stop it

Cryptocurrency trading is an interesting area. It’s a totally new concept, a way of trading that seems to shake off a lot of the restraints of more traditional finance. Since its inception, crypto has been more or less open to everyone, allowing people without any significant financial background to achieve massive success from virtually nowhere. […] дальше »

2018-7-22 01:27


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Cardano 2018 Year In Review: ADA Coin’s Roadmap & Accomplishments

Cardano has aspiring aims for 2018 which includes the rollout of a system for smart contracts that, if successful, will represent several improvements over the Ethereum blockchain. Cardano is a project that began in 2015 as an effort to change the way cryptocurrencies are designed and developed. The overall focus beyond a particular set of […] дальше »

2018-7-22 00:36


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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


JP Morgan Chase Patents an ICO-Like System for Tokenized Stock Trading

JP Morgan Chase, a major investment bank and financial services provider, is turning to blockchain technology once again. A patent describing their new blockchain application was made public today. This time, the firm has plans to handle IPOs in much same the way that ICOs currently operate. IPOs, or initial public offerings, are events in […] дальше »

2018-7-21 04:25


This Silicon Valley-Backed Blockchain Startup Wants to Become the Wikipedia of Data

DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others. дальше »

2018-7-21 20:14


This Silicon Valley Backs Blockchain Startup Wants to Become the Wikipedia of Data

DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others. дальше »

2018-7-20 20:14