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Wildcards Purports to Save Endangered Species With Technical First For Ethereum
21.1.2020
An Ethereum-based project not only works to save endangered animals, but also has some new technology under the hood. #CTdoesDavos
An In-Depth Look at the Multi-Currency Cold Storage Card Ballet
20.1.2020
Last September, Bobby Lee, the former CEO of China’s first cryptocurrency exchange BTCC revealed his new business venture Ballet, a non-electronic crypto wallet solution that offers multi-currency support. During the North American Bitcoin Conference Miami, all the attendees got a single...
Liquid Cancells Pre-Sale of Non-Existent Telegram’s Token
16.1.2020
Telegram’s much-anticipated Gram token pre-sale has been canceled and all funds have been returned to investors, said Japan-based crypto exchange Liquid.
Elaborating on the reasons behind the cancellation, Liquid explained:
“At the time of the Gram Token Sale on Liquid, it was anticipated that...
Whales Control Most of Litecoin, Many Ethereum Tokens
19.12.2019
A new study of 140,000 crypto addresses finds that few accounts are needed to form majority ownership of many coins. More than half of all LTC is held in just 189 non-exchange addresses, and on average, the top 100 ERC20 tokens are majority-owned by just 34 addresses. Almost 1 in 4 tokens had...
Binance Research: Non-Economical Reasons Motivate Bitcoin SV Miners
18.12.2019
Research conducted by major crypto exchange binance suggests that the motivation driving Bitcoin SV miners is non-economic in nature
A Better Alternative to Banking – Club Swan
18.12.2019
The crypto community has had a rough relationship with traditional financial institutions with limited solutions available. Around the world, both early and recent crypto users have had bank accounts closed, transactions rejected, unnecessary delays in receiving their funds, or worse. To add...
Iran, Hong Kong, India: Failed Protests Point to Need for Crypto-Anarchy ‘Second Realms’
13.12.2019
What is the second realm? It’s both an abstract and concrete “place” parallel to here, where temporary autonomous zones (TAZ) provide a chance to escape the burning surveillance spotlight of the state and brutal law enforcement culture, and allow for at least temporary exercises...
BRD’s Adam Traidman on New Products, Crypto Adoption, and Banking the Unbanked Into 2020
11.12.2019
Breadwallet, later known as Bread, and now just as BRD, was the first crypto wallet in the App Store in 2014. Its non-custodial, open source and user-friendly nature saw it become very popular, now with nearly 3 million users worldwide. CEO Adam Traidman took some time to field questions from...
Ross Ulbricht Clemency Petition Gathers 250,000 Signatures
7.12.2019
On Friday, the Clemency for Ross Ulbricht petition hosted on Change.org surpassed 250,000 signatures. The solicitation for signatures started in July 2018 and gathered roughly 6,200 signatures during the first three days. Now with a quarter of a million signatures asking U.S. President Donald Trump...
Bitcoin Cash 2019: Year in Review
6.12.2019
2019 is coming to an end and the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) ecosystem has matured a great deal. BCH has successfully upgraded twice this year, adding Schnorr signatures capabilities and most transactions on the BCH network are now non-malleable. Moreover, BCH has seen increased adoption this year, an...
Halving Will Be ‘Non-Event’ for BTC Price: Morgan Creek Digital Exec
2.12.2019
Bitcoin’s May 2020 block reward halving won’t affect price, says Morgan Creek
Coinbase Patents AI Compliance System to Monitor and Flag Accounts
29.11.2019
Popular U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase received a patent November 19, for an AI-driven compliance system which would monitor customer accounts, flagging those deemed non-compliant and recategorizing them for corrective action. Described as a “compliance determination and enforcement...
Web Scraping Made Simple With Zenscrape
28.11.2019
Web scraping has always been taken care of by actual developers, since a lot of coding, proxy management and CAPTCHA-solving is involved. However, the scraped data is very often needed by people that are non-coders: Marketers, Analysts, Business Developers etc.
Zenscrape is an easy-to-use...
Coinbase Secures Patent for System to Identify Non-Compliant Accounts
28.11.2019
Coinbase has been awarded a patent for a system that finds and flags non-compliant accounts
Stablecoins Can Temper US Dollar Hegemony Risks, Says Non-Profit Exec
27.11.2019
The systemic risks posed by U.S. dollar domination of global foreign currency reserves could be tempered by stablecoin issuance, analysts argue in a new piece for the WEF
A History of Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms
26.11.2019
The consensus mechanism is a critical blockchain component, providing a non-partisan means of establishing agreement as to the network’s current state. But ever since Bitcoin emerged in 2008, its original consensus mechanism – Proof of Work (PoW) – has been emulated and iterated...
Ouch
22.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 22 November, 2019 “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Algorand 2.0 now supports non-Turing-complete smart contracts LG and […]
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Ouch
22.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 22 November, 2019 “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Algorand 2.0 now supports non-Turing-complete smart contracts LG and […]
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Algorand 2.0’s New Non-Turing-Complete Smart Contracts Are a Feature, Not a Bug
22.11.2019
Thursday's Algorand 2.0 upgrade adds decentralized finance (DeFi) features and smart contracts to the $108 million blockchain
Grayscale: 84% of Q3 Interest Came From Non-Crypto Hedge Funds
21.11.2019
Grayscale’s Michael Sonnenshein reveals 84% of the digital asset manager’s inflows in Q3 were from non-crypto hedge funds