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Vitalik Vs. Apple: App Store Is Restrictive & Nobody Is Complaining

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the Ethereum platform, is quite active on Twitter and absolutely does not hold back when there is something that needs to be said. This time, Apple’s app store was on the receiving end of his criticism: he thinks that it is strange that they get so much power...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Bitcoin Drops In Official Chinese Ranking, New Winner Announced

China’s Center for Information Industry Development (CCID), an organization affiliated with the Chinese central government, has issued a new official ranking of 30 cryptocurrencies in circulation where EOS ranks as the top cryptocurrency.In the report, EOS, the token of the EOS blockchain...

, by Fredrik Vold

Ethereum Co-founder Lauds Qtum and VeChain, Welcomes SEC Ruling

Ethereum co-founder Anthony Di Iorio has sung the praises of two of China’s fast-growing blockchain ventures Qtum and VeChain.In an interview with Bloomberg, Di Iorio stated, “The biggest stake for me is in Qtum and VeChain right now, the two Chinese projects. There’s much more...

, by Tim Alper

Crypto’s Governance Problem

The absence of a democratic governing structure has been increasingly making itself felt. The coins with responsive informal governance structures will tend to gain users.Crypto's 'governance problem' has been increasingly manifesting in recent years. First there was the long-running debate over...

, by Simon Chandler

Pop. 1,500 Village Set to Issue its Own ICO by 2021

A tiny village in Japan’s rural Okayama Prefecture has confirmed it will launch an initial coin offering (ICO) by the end of the 2021 financial year, as a means to reinvigorate its economy and boost financial autonomy. The village authorities of Nishiawakura – population 1,500 –...

, by Tim Alper

Digital Asset Transactions: When Howey Met Gary (Plastic)

Below is the whole speech by William Hinman, director of corporate finance at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, made at Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit: Crypto in San Francisco on Thursday. _____________Remarks at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit: CryptoThank you Andy. I am pleased to...

, by William Hinman

Ethereum Jumps On SEC Director Remarks

A high-ranking official at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has said that Ethereum is not to be considered a security, and therefore does not fall under the jurisdiction of the US financial regulator. The remarks were made by director of corporate finance William Hinman at the SEC,...

, by Fredrik Vold

USD 20 Million Stolen from Ethereum Clients – What Should I Do?

A group of hackers has stolen over USD 20 million worth of Ethereum from Ethereum-based apps and mining rigs, Chinese cyber-security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab reported today.If you’re one of the victims, you probably know it already - but even if you’re not, you should understand how this...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Top 5 Ethereum Dapp Games

Hailed the new and revolutionary breed of apps, dapps (decentralized apps) run on a P2P (peer-to-peer) network of computers rather than a single computer. They are a type of software program designed to exist on the Internet in a way that is not controlled by any single entity. Dapps are a great...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

The Great Backlash Against Blockchain Hype

Skeptics say that centralized blockchains are 'sanitized tanks to shop for groceries'. However, much of the technology laying at the heart of blockchains could have a bright future.The world is falling in love with blockchain. USD 945 million was spent globally by organisations on "blockchain...

, by Simon Chandler

German Prosecutors Sell off Millions in Website’s Crypto-assets

Prosecutors in Germany have auctioned off a whopping 1,312 Bitcoin (USD 10 million), a similar amount in Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold – and some 220 Ethereum.The Bavarian Central Office for Cybercrime last year accused Lul.to, a website allegedly dealing in pirated eBooks and audiobooks, of...

, by Tim Alper

POA Network: How To Stake Your Identity

One of the most interesting things in the whole blockchain space is an increasing variety of available consensus mechanisms. They are used to validate transactions and secure blockchains. Visualization by POA Network. Proof-of-Work, Proof-of-Stake, Delegated Proof-of-Stake, Proof-of-Activity,...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Report: Ethereum Price May Have Plummeted Because of EOS

Yesterday’s plummet of Ethereum price is blamed on a large sale of ETH on crypto exchange Bitfinex attributed to EOS, an infrastructure for decentralized applications, according to tech site TrustNodes (TN). According to TrustNodes, “An incredible trading volume of some 180,000 ETH (USD...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Ethereum is One Step Closer to a Major Change

The first release of Casper FFG (Friendly Finality Gadget) consensus mechanism is out on Tuesday, published on a software development platform GitHub by its developer, Danny Ryan. Casper’s purpose is to change the way the Ethereum network reaches consensus by eventually replacing the Proof of...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

These Miners Might Be Dangerous, But Avoiding Them Is Complicated

The spectre of re-centralisation is haunting crypto. Its cause: the expansion of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips, which can mine bitcoin more efficiently than GPUs (graphics processing units) and CPUs (central processing units), but which are so expensive only the biggest...

, by Simon Chandler

Ethereum: Sharding News Wins Over SEC Scrutiny

Two big news have rocked the world of Ethereum platform yesterday, May 1st: the announcement of a quicker, more scalable future through sharding, and the report of the world’s biggest altcoin having come under particular the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) scrutiny on whether...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

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