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IRS to Pay $625K to Crack Monero, Crypto Proponents Scoff at Contract
11.9.2020
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants to pay a contractor $625,000 if they can crack layer-two privacy schemes and the privacy-centric crypto asset monero (XMR). The tax agency says that the entity has “limited investigative resources” for tracing these types of cryptocurrency...
Developers propose a solution against 'stealth mining' to Ethereum Classic community
9.9.2020
Would any well-intended miner propose a deep chain reorganization?
Defi’s Raw Deal: Sushiswap Creator Transfers Multi-Sig Control to FTX CEO
6.9.2020
After a number of individuals from the crypto community accused the anonymous developer Chef Nomi of exit scamming, the developer transferred the project over to Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of the trading platform FTX. On Saturday, September 5, the decentralized finance (defi) community got upset...
Tim Draper Heaps Praise on Bitcoin Cash
5.9.2020
Billionaire and venture capitalist Tim Draper has praised bitcoin cash after recently purchasing the coin. Lauding the ease of use as well as buying it, Draper encourages his followers to do likewise. Draper’s endorsement comes as the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community braces for a fork instigated...
IOHK’s proposal for the ETC community could use Cardano or Bitcoin for prevention of 51% attacks
4.9.2020
Will Ethereum Classic's community accept this new solution from Charles Hoskinson's IOHK?
Privacy Options Underutilized in Cryptocurrency Usage: Report
4.9.2020
Advances in cryptography have not met with user enthusiasm, suggesting a disconnect between the cryptocurrency community and its cypherpunk ancestors. According to Coin Metrics, transactions of privacy-focused cryptocurrencies zcash (ZEC), monero (XMR), and grin only add up to 6% of bitcoin’s...
Maker community thanks yEarn for seemingly restoring DAI peg
3.9.2020
A massive yield farming strategy finally provides a mechanism to push the DAI price down
LZ Lending Innovates and Integrates Peer2Peer Into Platform
2.9.2020
LZ Lending, London’s premier cryptocurrency Peer 2 Peer lending solutions, announces the official launch of their new fully integrated and simple to use P2P platform designed to remove barriers and obstacles that have prevented millions of potential investors from entering the cryptocurrency...
Money Market Protocol Aave Settles $300 Million in Defi Flash Loans
2.9.2020
This weekend the decentralized money market protocol Aave broke records as the community witnessed a massive flash loan of $14 million worth of the stablecoin DAI. So far, the Aave protocol has seen over $300 million in flash loans to-date and this trend doesn’t seem to be abating any time...
Prepping for an Airdrop: Prominent BCH Community Members Bid Bitcoin ABC Devs Farewell
2.9.2020
On August 18, 2020, the Bitcoin ABC development team announced a “feature freeze,” which will include a new Infrastructure Funding Plan (IFP) and a week later explained it was also initiating a “governance council.” Despite the recent announcements, Bitcoin ABC has lost...
Crypto has a chance to upgrade the legacy financial system
30.8.2020
Humanity may never have a better chance to change finance than we do now, and crypto and blockchain could help us
Building the blockchain community is essential for further developments
29.8.2020
The power of a strong community in scaling blockchain-based projects should not be understated
Free Market Family: Goldbug Peter Schiff Asks the Bitcoin Community to Gift Crypto to His Son
29.8.2020
The American libertarian, economist and financial commentator Peter Schiff has been criticizing bitcoin for years, as he believes “bitcoin has no real value.” However, on Thursday Schiff asked the crypto community to give some bitcoin to his 18-year old son Spencer for his birthday...
Charles Hoskinson's IOHK submitted a decentralized treasury proposal to the Ethereum Classic Community
28.8.2020
Would a 20% block reward reduction matter in the long run?
Lazarus is attacking the crypto industry via LinkedIn, warns F-Secure
25.8.2020
Careful! Those job offers you’re seeing on LinkedIn might actually be a crypto attack
Designing a JavaScript Plugin System
25.8.2020
WordPress has plugins. jQuery has plugins. Gatsby, Eleventy, and Vue do, too.
Plugins are a common feature of libraries and frameworks, and for a good reason: they allow developers to add functionality, in a safe, scalable way. This makes the core project more valuable, and it builds a community...
Polkadot Enters Top 10, Community Divided on Road Ahead
25.8.2020
Polkadot (DOT), a blockchain network focused on “true [blockchain] interoperability” and one of the top 10 ICOs of 2017, has entered the top 10 ranking of the most valuable cryptoassets, data from ranking website CoinGecko shows.
As of press time on Tuesday (11:45 UTC), Polkadot’s new DOT tokens...
Two DeFi projects with $1.2B in TLV have major governance issues
24.8.2020
One project's founder controls 71% of its voting power
A Community-Driven Site with Eleventy: Building the Site
20.8.2020
In the last article, we learned what goes into planning for a community-driven site. We saw just how many considerations are needed to start accepting user submissions, using what I learned from my experience building Style Stage as an example.
Now that we’ve covered planning, let’s get to some...
Hash Watch: Bitcoin Cash Miners Begin Signaling Node Implementations
20.8.2020
There’s 88 days left until the Bitcoin Cash upgrade scheduled for November 15, 2020, and the community has been watching miners closely. On August 18, the Bitcoin ABC team published a blog post that revealed a “feature freeze is now in place,” as it contains a new coinbase rule....