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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
ShapeShift Launches Exchange Token, FOX, for Commission-Free Trading
20.11.2019
"Basically, we're trying to get people away from custodial exchanges," said ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees
Non-Fungible Tokens: What Is It and What's Been Happening in 2019
17.11.2019
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) achieved mainstream attention in 2017 following the popularity of the crypto collectibles game CryptoKitties. The NFT market has evolved since then.
In this article, we will delve into non-fungible tokens to understand what they are and what they can do. We will also...
Bitcoin Cash Upgrade Complete: 2 New Protocol Changes Added
15.11.2019
The Bitcoin Cash network has successfully upgraded the latest ruleset changes to the protocol. The BCH blockchain now features the enforcement of minimal pushdata in script which will make a majority of BCH network transactions non-malleable. Moreover, as an extension to last May’s Schnorr...
Japan Pushes Cashless Agenda by Rewarding Non-Cash Payments After Tax Hike
15.11.2019
Japan’s recent October sales tax increase took the rate from 8% to 10%, the previous such hike occurring in April of 2014, when the rate was raised from 5%. The increase is accompanied this time around by new government policy which rewards cashless payments by allowing merchants to provide...
Activist Larken Rose Weighs In on Bitcoin, Anarchy, and the Importance of Permissionless Cash
8.11.2019
Though his latest project with partner and fellow activist Amanda Rose, Candles in the Dark, is a program helping people escape authoritarian programming through non-confrontational dialogue, there’s nothing meek and mild about Larken Rose’s stance when it comes to government....
Show Search Button when Search Field is Non-Empty
5.11.2019
I think the :placeholder-shown selector is tremendously cool. It allows you to select the placeholder of an input (<input placeholder="...">) when that placeholder is present. Meaning, the input does not yet have any value. You might think input[value] could do that, or help match on...
Billion Dollar Bitcoin Lawsuit Continues as Craig Wright Breaks Settlement
3.11.2019
In early September, the high-profile court case Kleiman v. Wright looked as though it was coming to an end as the two parties reached a non-binding settlement. Then on October 30, without much notice, Wright explained that he couldn’t finance the settlement and the agreement was broken....
Ghoulish NFTs Will Haunt the Blockchain This Halloween
28.10.2019
'Tis the season for spooky digital collectibles