2019-9-14 13:30 |
According to Electric Coin Company research, you can prove the whole bitcoin blockchain in less space than a bitcoin blockhead, only 80-bytes of data. origin »
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Special thanks to the Plasma Group team for review and feedback Current approaches to layer 2 scaling - basically, Plasma and state channels - are increasingly moving from theory to practice, but at the same time it is becoming easier to see the inherent challenges in treating these techniques as a fully fledged scaling solution for Ethereum.
2019-9-2 04:03 | |
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Kiva, a non-profit organization that claims to make it possible for people to lend money to low-income entrepreneurs and students in various countries, has launched a blockchain-based credit database in Sierra Leone, to enable residents to easily prove their credit history and secure loans, reports Reuters on August 21, 2019.
2019-8-23 17:00 | |
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Combating fake news, deepfakes, and misinformation is one of modern journalism’s biggest challenges. There have been numerous attempts to help readers recognize when a source shouldn’t be trusted.
2019-7-24 15:25 | |
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ABBC foundation is proud to announce the Buyaladdin shopping platform. Buyaladdin is truly the next generation e-commerce app that will revolutionize mediums of exchange and prove to be a stepping stone in making cryptocurrency mainstream.
2019-7-18 10:58 | |
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Bitcoin bulls believe that the current currency tussle between world leaders will ultimately prove decisive for BTC. Some commentators are even pointing to significant signs of bitcoin becoming a hedge for many investors against uncertainties in traditional markets.
2019-7-5 01:00 | |
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When dealing with cryptocurrency gambling platforms and dApps, there needs to be a trust factor between user and provider. Especially when it comes to obtaining one’s payouts, this trust relationship can prove to be uneasy.
2019-6-30 19:20 | |
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The dominance of Binance and Coinbase in the centralized exchange could prove to be a pitfall for the cryptocurrency world. As highlighted by Kevin Rooke of The Spring, Binance and Coinbase have 1. 37 million and 1.
2019-6-9 21:00 | |
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We are living in the era of bright ideas and unique solutions which become the basis for startups and projects. Some of them are unable to stick on the market and are driven off it by stronger competitors, others prove their potential, form mutually beneficial partnerships and develop into larger enterprises.
2019-6-4 08:08 | |
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On May 28, 2019, cryptocurrency analytics firm Diar published a report that paints a rather gloomy picture of the fate of Facebook’s payment-focused cryptocurrency GlobalCoin. According to the report, the social media website’s user demographics could prove to be a huge challenge to GlobalCoin’s mainstream adoption.
2019-5-29 17:26 | |
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Things you can buy with bitcoin: AT&T’s services, airfare, pretty much anything using gift cards through Bitrefill, pizza, drugs (duh) and now, Indigenous Australian art.
2019-5-29 23:15 | |
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Bitcoin is an amazing form of money and the technology Satoshi created has incredible potential. However, most people don’t realize that the blockchain not only allows for a great medium of exchange, but it also provides the means for creating notarized proofs.
2019-5-18 17:58 | |
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ConsenSys entered into a partnership with LVMH and Microsoft to launch a new blockchain platform tailored for the luxury industry. The consortium, named AURA, will be based on Ethereum blockchain technology and utilize Microsoft’s Azure platform and enable customers to prove the authenticity of their goods.
2019-5-18 18:34 | |
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Though Ion isn't scheduled to shift from the Bitcoin testnet to the mainnet until later this year, Ion can help manage an enterprise's decentralized identifiers, which ultimately control the ability for users to prove they own the keys to a certain set of data.
2019-5-13 19:01 | |
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Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.
2019-5-13 18:34 | |
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A filing showing the list of addresses that were supposed to prove that controversial figure Craig Wright was, in fact, Satoshi Nakamoto, has been unsealed. Deeper inspection of the list, however, showed that the blocks Wright claims to have mined are merely a “lazy copy-paste from the blockchain,” researchers from Wizsec Security found.
2019-5-10 12:14 | |
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Research has shown that the number of on-chain Bitcoin transactions has risen dramatically throughout 2019, nearing the volume of Bitcoin’s peak in December 2017. Even so, transaction fees are a fraction of what they were around bitcoin’s all-time high, likely due to the continued uptick of SegWit transactions on the network.
2019-5-8 00:53 | |
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Good morning. It’s Monday, so you know what that means. It’s time for Moonday Mornings, our wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. 1. Bitcoin extortionists have been wiping GitHub repositories and holding the data to ransom, Bleeping Computer reports.
2019-5-6 11:32 | |
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Students at the high-school level and above in Singapore will from this year receive digital certificates upon graduation. The initiative uses blockchain technology to enable an “easy and reliable way” to prove qualifications through tamper-free certification.
2019-5-5 23:00 | |
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BOW APP is a Blockchain application that ensures the traceability of luxury products for individuals. The BOW SOFTWARE is a B2B platform for luxury brands specialized in the management of the supply chain.
2019-5-3 10:53 | |
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It’s funny how even the teams that are super-serious about merging blockchain and finance, and creating adoption en masse, and that use typewriter fonts and geometric shapes on their websites to prove how science-bookish and non-marketing-led they are… still can’t resist the hyperbole.
2019-4-21 18:14 | |
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RIF Labs has announced the integration of its public blockchain, RSK Smart Contracts, on Microsoft's Azure Marketplace. The RSK Smart Contract Network is an open-source platform that seeks to extend the functionality of Bitcoin using smart contracts and the Azure Marketplace is an app store for Microsoft’s cloud computing service.
2019-4-18 18:57 | |
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Bitcoin. com, the leading advocate for Bitcoin’s largest fork, is launching a notarial service to verify and authenticate documents. The new function will will allow anyone to prove their ownership of timestamped documents, photos or videos directly on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain, without needing another person to record them.
2019-4-17 18:42 | |
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Neil Gordon, a 20-year veteran fintech business analyst, and blockchain analyst for IAmDecentralized. org just pointed out what he considers to be the number one sign of cryptocurrency adoption. Gordon says Tron’s huge transaction numbers prove that massive adoption is coming.
2019-4-9 13:37 | |
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When leaked pictures of Samsung’s latest smartphone went viral, the crypto sphere lost its mind over a singular feature: a built-in cryptocurrency wallet. Samsung would quickly deny rumors that the S10 contained a baked-in hardware wallet.
2019-3-13 22:31 | |
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Crypto users were sent into a frenzy over March 4, 2019, reports that Starbucks had earned significant equity in Bakkt and might begin accepting crypto payments. However, this could prove to be a tax nightmare for Starbucks users.
2019-3-8 17:30 | |
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Ripple will get the chance to prove at a federal level that XRP shouldn’t be classified as a security. In a recent development, a judge has granted their motion to keep a class action lawsuit against them in Federal Court, confirmed via a tweet on March 1, 2019.
2019-3-5 22:00 | |
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For years, supporters of the Ripple blockchain network and its native cryptocurrency XRP have anticipated the listing of the asset on Coinbase, the largest digital asset exchange in the U. S. Many investors have believed that the integration of XRP by Coinbase could be considered as a confirmation of regulatory clearance on the nature of the digital asset as a nonsecurity.
2019-2-26 16:20 | |
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When you think of Apple, you think iPhone, iPad, or even privacy concerns. You probably don’t think conflict minerals used in the manufacturing of its devices or how blockchain could prove the cure for an ethical supply chain.
2019-2-21 12:30 | |
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There are two primary reasons why storing your private crypto keys in the cloud is a bad idea. First, your cloud provider represents a centralized honeypot that could experience a security breach, allowing cyber criminals to access your data.
2019-2-19 00:19 | |
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What matters in a consensus mechanism? Today, several blockchain companies are competing to prove they are the best. But what does that mean? The bulk of crypto companies have touted speed and efficiency as their claim to success, but there is much more to the equation.
2019-2-13 00:00 | |
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On February 4, 2019, blockchain tech company Blockstream announced the development of a “proof of reserves” tool to standardize the authenticity of exchanges’ crypto reserves.
2019-2-7 01:01 | |
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A new company develops blockchain-driven EkoLink Service, which allows a specialist to purportedly prove the authenticity of certificates about education, and verify job experience. Many specialists nowadays try to increase their education and working skills.
2019-2-7 00:15 | |
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Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. Despite the word blockchain being fired around with Gatling gun-like fervor, not all blockchains are created equal.
2019-2-4 19:55 | |
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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 users may, before long, be able to benefit from a trick called “Taproot. ” First proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor and former Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell, Taproot would expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy in doing so.
2019-1-25 01:19 | |
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Blockchain has a role in helping prove supply chain transparency, BSI chief says
2019-1-24 14:18 | |
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The crypto market has endured a difficult sobering year, proving that not everything needs to be on blockchain and that crypto is not going to replace traditional infrastructure overnight. The industry is in a desperate need of a successful mass-adoption use case that will prove out an economically sound token model and show the cryptocurrencies […] The post Blockchain Games: May Decentralization Be Ever In Your Favor appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-1-24 01:45 | |
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Transparency is a very important characteristic of governments. Unless they can prove to the people that they are clear, fair and not corrrupt, people will not respect them. Because of this, the use of the blockchain technology in governments can be a good way to have a transparent administration. Now, a district in South Korea’s […]
2019-1-17 00:13 | |
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Iberdrola, a highly reputed Spanish energy company, in conjunction with Kutxabank and the Energy Web Foundation distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform, has reportedly used the tech to prove the renewability, transparency and cost efficiency of electricity it generates for users, reported Europa Press on Jan 14, 2019.
2019-1-15 21:00 | |
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Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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If anyone said that banks and cryptocurrencies are natural enemies and can never work together — Ripple was out there to prove them wrong! Unlike Bitcoin — which is aimed at performing like regular currencies and be used to pay for goods and services — Ripple is a real-time payment settling and remittance system for banks and other payment networks.
2018-12-26 13:00 | |
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Tron has a lot to offer, and Justin Sun is willing to prove it. The creator of the popular blockchain that seeks to decentralize the internet recently spoke with Inc. magazine and shared his views on the reality of Tron and the current state of its cryptocurrency TRX.
2018-12-23 19:12 | |
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Dash cryptocurrency (DASH) was created by software developer Evan Duffield in 2014 as “XCoin,” an open source fork of the Bitcoin protocol. Its vision was to facilitate fast anonymous transactions over the blockchain.
2018-12-21 11:00 | |
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The brains behind one of the few cryptocurrencies lacking any form of blockchain have launched a competition to find bugs in their new hash function. The IOTA Foundation is offering a share of $220,000 to anyone who can demonstrate weakness within the code.
2018-12-21 21:30 | |
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Blockchain project VeChain announced that it is working closely with the Fuji MARUMO Tea Garden, one of the historic tea businesses in Japan to prove traceability of tea products. The blockchain network uses an advanced IoT and traceability solution which will enable Fuji MARUMO’s customers to verify the origins of their tea products by using a […] Japanese Tea Products Can Get Verified Proof of Origin on VeChain was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.
2018-12-6 19:29 | |
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A new alliance between Tendermint and Kava Labs may have paved the way for the Cosmos Network to evolve into a fully functional and optimized “internet of blockchains.” Assuming the new partnership lives up to expectations, this could prove to be a big stride towards removing the interoperability issues impeding Cosmos from fulfilling its vision […] Cosmos Implements Kava’s Interledger Solution; Could This Change the Game for Ripple and Other Blockchain Networks? was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.
2018-12-6 15:59 | |
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According to an article published by The New York Times on November 30, 2018, blockchain technology could prove to be a game changer for the jewelry industry. The innovation’s inherently transparent and immutable nature could mitigate the risk of counterfeiting within the fragmented supply chain specific to the industry.
2018-12-2 09:00 | |
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Gravity Earth is a company that is helping refugees in Africa by introducing a blockchain-based platform that allows them to prove their identity which in turn can help them gain access to financial services.
2018-12-2 23:00 | |
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A new study into 43 blockchain solutions implemented in the international development sector revealed a zero percent success rate. It also found that blockchain vendors didn’t respond to requests for evidence of their solutions’ results.
2018-12-1 13:00 | |
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Zcash developer Electric Coin Company will transition to a new non-profit, with a majority of shareholders electing to donate their equity.
The zcash community has agreed to continue funding the development of its privacy coin after a months-long – and often contentious – campaign to address imminent funding losses.
The Electric Coin Company has released development tools to help build mobile wallets able to support shielded payments, which obfuscate addresses and transaction amounts.
Can an altcoin outgrow its founders? A new agreement between Electric Coin Company and the Zcash Foundation could be a good first step.
OKEX Korea is reconsidering a decision to delist the privacy coins zcash and dash it announced in September.
The for-profit arm supporting zcash has issued a new report saying it avoided layoffs throughout the bear market despite being in the red.