2023-6-5 17:16 |
Some Consensus 2023 participants argue that the economic benefits of CBDCs are not worth the threats to privacy in an excerpt from CoinDesk’s first-ever Consensus @ Consensus Report. origin »
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We’ll hear discussions ranging from global regulatory policy around crypto to how industry and lawmakers alike are approaching the question of privacy and privacy tool usage in crypto at CoinDesk's Consensus 2023 conference.
2023-4-26 18:50 | |
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Somehow we accept that financial transactions get turned over to the government by default without a warrant, says civil liberties lawyer Marta Belcher, a speaker at this year's Consensus festival.
2023-3-22 21:03 | |
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin hopes popular meme coin Dogecoin and privacy token Zcash will move their networks to the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. The post Ethereum Cofounder Vitalik Buterin Wants Dogecoin, Zcash to Move to Proof-of-Stake appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-9-25 11:54 | |
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Ethereum’s consensus algorithm is not the only thing changing with the launch of Eth 2.0. The underlying cryptography itself is getting an overhaul.
2020-6-20 16:46 | |
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Congressman Warren Davidson recaps yesterday’s hearing on the digital dollar, which seemed to reach new consensus across party lines — but the devil is in the details.
2020-6-13 21:46 | |
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Justin Sun, Tron CEO has revealed the possible launch date of TRON’s awaited update dubbed TRON 4.0. In a Twitter post, Sun announced that TRON 4.0 will be unveiled on July 7th. The CEO explained to the Tron Community (Tronics) of what new features to expect as when the update would be rolled out. There […]
2020-6-8 16:15 | |
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Responding to Larry Summers at Consensus: Distributed this week, Michael Casey argues that money needs more privacy, not less, and that, ultimately, our rights as financial citizens are at stake.
2020-5-16 20:10 | |
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Harry Halpin, a speaker at Consensus: Distributed, talks about his lockdown, and how Crypto Twitter was right, for once.
2020-4-24 20:46 | |
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Evidenced by growing initiatives such as Lightning Network, the crypto-community has made more efforts towards improving the Bitcoin ecosystem. A recent Longhash report highlighted two currently-in-review Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIP) known as Schnorr and Taproot, which could push the needle further in the right direction, if they gain consensus among the nodes on the network.
2019-10-31 00:30 | |
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First scalable decentralized social security network Project Introduction Asure Network is a layer 2 scaling network that enables fast, easy and secure transactions for not only payment transactions, but also generalized smart contract.
2019-7-18 11:03 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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Bitcoin Price Analysis After a strong price performance was recorded over the past two weeks, the highs formed in 2018 are coming into play as areas of resistance for the price of Bitcoin. Bitcoin recorded a high above $8,000 this week while the biggest crypto conference of the year, Consensus, took place.
2019-5-18 12:39 | |
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Prices in the cryptocurrency market have been volatile as Consensus, the biggest cryptocurrency conference of the year, took place this week. The conference took place Monday and ended Wednesday this week.
2019-5-17 12:19 | |
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Security tokens are coming to Bitcoin, courtesy of Blockstream. The Bitcoin and blockchain technology company announced on May 15, 2019, the final day of the Consensus 2019 conference, that Liquid Securities, a platform for issuing and managing security tokens on its Liquid sidechain, is ready to go live.
2019-5-16 19:14 | |
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QEDIT, an Israeli blockchain startup specialized in data privacy, has announced the official product launch of QEDIT Asset Transfer, an enterprise solution for maintaining data confidentiality for large-scale value transfers on blockchain networks.
2019-5-16 18:47 | |
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By CCN: DAPS stands for “decentralized anonymous payment system. ” DAPS Coin’s motto is “privacy is a right, not a privilege. ” Mixing Privacy and Proof-of-Stake They’re launching in a growing market of privacy coins, hoping to deliver a superior product that might shake things up.
2019-5-15 09:32 | |
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On May 11, BitMart Labs, an international blockchain incubator launched by BitMart Exchange, will Co-host the 2019 Block Plus Summit Series 2 in New York during the New York City Blockchain Week when the Consensus will take place.
2019-5-1 22:10 | |
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Zcash has announced that it plans to add a new consensus rule in order to protect its coin supply against counterfeiting attacks. Although Zcash offers privacy features, some of its coins move in such a way that they can be observed via a “turnstile” effect.
2019-3-25 17:48 | |
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There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization. ” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology.
2019-3-1 19:43 | |
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Over the last few years, infighting and different visions has led to significant divides within the Bitcoin community, weakening the network effects no matter which chain you support. With all the arguments about scaling, privacy, consensus changes and the various forks, it is amazing that these public networks are still thriving.
2019-2-14 19:55 | |
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Finally, after a disappointment, Charles St. Louis has published a Constantinople postmortem report. Constantinople, as you may be aware by now, is the third upgrade in the Metropolis leading to the “ideal” Ethereum where consensus will be proof of stake complete with layer two solutions as Plasma as well as infusion of privacy features via […] The post Ethereum Price Analysis: ETH Make or Break Lies at $100 appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-1-29 15:00 | |
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This article is a direct follow-up from our Taproot explainer. If you haven’t read that article, you should probably do so first. If Taproot is deployed on Bitcoin, many smart contract constructions will look just like regular transactions on the blockchain.
2019-1-26 01:23 | |
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Bitcoin — the cryptocurrency that started it all — was released in 2009 as open-source software by a person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The idea was to create a peer-to-peer electronic currency that didn’t rely on any central authority or intermediary for validating the exchange of money.
2018-12-28 12:00 | |
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Blockchain software-as-a-service (SAS) project Kaleido has launched a marketplace to provide its users with a “full-stack enterprise platform. ”Their “Blockchain Business Cloud” now features a “new marketplace [of] trusted tools and services from Kaleido, AWS, and members of the new partnership program, all offered as plug-and-play.
2018-11-10 22:06 | |
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In a bid to lower the barriers to mainstream adoption of blockchain technology, professional services giant Ernst & Young (EY) has launched a solution that it claims will allow companies to transact privately on Ethereum’s blockchain using zero-knowledge proof (ZKP).
2018-11-1 22:33 | |
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Fundamentals suggest that network usage of XMR is currently on the decline, but protocol upgrades and consensus algorithm changes bring XMR to the forefront of the privacy coin arms race.
2018-10-26 14:01 | |
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have weighed in on sovereign considerations and global implications of blockchain and other financial services technologies.
2018-10-15 19:01 | |
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This rather long meme, which has been circulating lately, makes fun of the views of Bitcoin supporters by listing commonly made statements and contrasting them with contradicting statements or developments.
2018-10-4 22:27 | |
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Over 30 years after creating eCash, a predecessor of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies which spawned the Cypherpunk movement of the 1980s, Dr. David Chaum is back in the public eye with a claim of having invented “the world’s fastest cryptocurrency.
2018-9-22 23:59 | |
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One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”).
2018-8-28 04:03 | |
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Ben Fairbank, the general manager of Komodo (KMD), took the time to participate in a Reddit AMA yesterday in which he gave new information about the platform’s current status and future plans.
2018-8-22 00:12 | |
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As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name.
2018-7-13 17:16 | |
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All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name.
2018-6-15 23:31 | |
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Consensus 2023 participants explored how user-focused design, cultural understanding, and gradual decentralization can drive mainstream crypto adoption
Consensus 2023 visitors discussed DeFi's growth, its need to comply with regulations, and the challenges of balancing crypto-native concepts with traditional finance requirements.
Based on intimate, curated group discussions that took place at Consensus 2023, it covers a wide range of pressing issues for the digital assets industry.
Missed Consensus 2023? Catch up on some of the most important conversations here.
The war won't last forever, but probably will continue for the next 18-20 months, Kristin Smith said.
The war won't last forever, but probably will continue for the next 18-20 months, Kristin Smith said.