Recently, the Zcash team announced the activation of the Sapling hard fork, which occurred at block 419,200. The new version of the network provides improved performance with 90 percent less time to create a transaction and 97 percent less memory consumption. One of the main reasons for such a drastic reduction in resource consumption is associated with the central element of the Zcash architecture, the hidden addresses.
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Zcash Is Implementing a Hard Fork, Thus Becoming Even More Anonymous
Zcash has undergone a hard fork and become even more anonymous.
Recently, security tokens started attracting more and more attention, both from investors and from startups. Why will they become the apparent favorites in the coming years? What are their advantages, and how will they be used in the future?
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Security Tokens vs. Utility Tokens: Who Will Win?
Utility tokens are turning into relics of a bygone era and giving the way to security tokens.
Cryptocurrencies are breathing new life into remote communities where cash is scarce.
“I prefer using the app. When people look at the paper money, sometimes they don’t take it seriously.”
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“I prefer using the app. When people look at the paper money, sometimes they don’t take it seriously.”
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Bloomberg.com
Closing the Cash Gap With Cryptocurrency
In emerging markets, the shallow reach of traditional money systems means there’s less resistance to new financial technology.
Cryptocurrency custody hardware and software provider Ledger plans to add support for stablecoins across all its solutions.
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Coindesk
Crypto Wallet Maker Ledger to Expand Support for Stablecoins, Including Tether
Benjamin Soong, Ledger's newly hired head of Asia-Pacific operations, says tether remains popular in the region despite the token's recent troubles.
Microsoft is eyeing the integration of its Azure Blockchain technology into stock exchange Nasdaq’s Financial Framework (NFF).
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Cointelegraph
Microsoft to Integrate Blockchain Offering Into Nasdaq Services Following New Partnership
A new partnership between Microsoft and Nasdaq Inc. aims to integrate the Azure Blockchain offering with Nasdaq’s Financial Framework product.
Below is the article with key takeaways from Morgan Stanley’s recent 50-page report on the current state of the cryptocurrency industry.
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The Block
Morgan Stanley report: The bitcoin thesis is ‘rapidly morphing’, cryptos highly correlated
The research division of Morgan Stanley, one of the major investment banks, released a new 50-page report noscriptd: “Update: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain” on Wednesday. The new report is an update to the first version noscriptd “Bitcoin Decrypted:…
The U.S. Senate hearings on cryptocurrency and blockchain held October 11 have become a real contest for the supporters and opponents of the digital economy. The testimony of an ardent critic of the crypto market, Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics at New York University, caused a flurry of emotions among crypto enthusiasts and industry experts. A great many of them, known and unknown to the general public, spoke on the net with weighty counterarguments against Roubini. If we summarize all the objections, it becomes clear that the professor got a little excited with his categorical statements in the Senate.
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In Defense of Bitcoin: The Response of the Crypto Enthusiasts to Roubini’s Attacks in the U.S. Senate
Doctor Doom, Nouriel Roubini’s arguments against Bitcoin get shattered by facts.
September 25 saw the end of the second Minter hackathon dedicated to the launch of decentralized exchanges (DEX). In just a week, the development teams had to create a convenient interface for monitoring the price of coins on the Minter testnet, as well as provide a simple tool for buying and selling them directly from users' wallets . . .
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How I Created a Decentralized Exchange on Minter in a Week
The winners of Minter Hackathon #2 explain how they managed to design a decentralized exchange under deadline pressure.
Dapper Labs, the company that developed the popular game CryptoKitties, has raised USD 15 million from Venrock, GV, and Samsung NEXT. The company plans to use the attracted capital to open a Los Angeles-based U.S. subsidiary and release additional blockchain-powered games and entertainment apps.
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CryptoKitties Maker Doubles Valuation in Venrock-Led Fundraising
The company behind the popular game CryptoKitties is raking in cash from venture capitalists faster than its users can churn out virtual cats.
In a new study released by Edelman, crypto seems to be most popular among affluent millennials aged 24-38.
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J.P. Morgan, which is one of Wall Street’s largest financial institutions, plans to tokenize gold bars on its blockchain Quorum.
The bank therefore aims to reduce the friction involved in commodities trading.
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The bank therefore aims to reduce the friction involved in commodities trading.
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Larry Fink—the CEO of BlackRock, which oversees approximately $6.4 trillion of assets—said the company is not launching an exchange traded fund for cryptocurrency yet.
“I wouldn’t say never, when it’s legitimate, yes.”
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“I wouldn’t say never, when it’s legitimate, yes.”
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CNBC
BlackRock won't offer a cryptocurrency ETF until the industry is 'legitimate,' CEO Larry Fink says
BlackRock won't be launching an ETF for bitcoin any time soon — at least not until cryptocurrencies become "legitimate."
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement released its annual report.
”In the past year, the Division has opened dozens of investigations involving ICOs and digital assets, many of which were ongoing at the close of FY 2018.”
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”In the past year, the Division has opened dozens of investigations involving ICOs and digital assets, many of which were ongoing at the close of FY 2018.”
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Distributed cloud storage blockchain network Sia completed its hard fork that prevents some specialized hardware from mining on the network.
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Sia Completes Hard Fork as Bricked Miners Form Rival Blockchain
Innosilicon's mining equipment no longer works on Sia following a planned algorithm change. But not everyone went along with the fork.
On October 29, the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange MapleChange was hacked, and earlier last week, the Bitcoin exchange Poloniex was interrupted twice due to technical problems, and these are just a few of the failures that disrupt the operation of the platforms. The main interference in cryptocurrency trading and the necessary network architecture for it is still carried out by hackers who break into the platforms. A popular (and possibly the easiest) way to steal a crypto asset is attacking trading applications. What kind of methods do the hackers use?
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How to Hack a Cryptocurrency Exchange Using a Regular Smartphone
Hacking crypto exchanges and trading platforms is all the rage, but how is it actually done?
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💵 Tether Limited confirmed that it had formed a banking partnership with the Bahamas-headquartered Deltec Bank & Trust Limited.
via The Block
🇺🇬 Binance saw an astounding 40,000 users sign up in its first week of launch in Uganda.
via CoinDesk
👀 American stock market exchange Nasdaq plans to assist cryptocurrency exchanges in eliminating manipulation, scams, and fraud.
via Unbankd
💠 At Devcon 4, MetaMask, which is the decentralized application browser for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain, announced a set of new tools and features.
via Decrypt Media
🇨🇳 Chinese activists have turned to the blockchain technology for documenting #MeToo stories.
via Harvard Business Review
💵 Tether Limited confirmed that it had formed a banking partnership with the Bahamas-headquartered Deltec Bank & Trust Limited.
via The Block
🇺🇬 Binance saw an astounding 40,000 users sign up in its first week of launch in Uganda.
via CoinDesk
👀 American stock market exchange Nasdaq plans to assist cryptocurrency exchanges in eliminating manipulation, scams, and fraud.
via Unbankd
💠 At Devcon 4, MetaMask, which is the decentralized application browser for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain, announced a set of new tools and features.
via Decrypt Media
🇨🇳 Chinese activists have turned to the blockchain technology for documenting #MeToo stories.
via Harvard Business Review
In its recent 2018 China Financial Stability Report, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) stated there is an increasing number of “disguised” initial coin offerings (ICOs), which try to evade the country’s regulations.
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China's Central Bank Moves to Restrict Free Crypto Giveaways
The People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, is looking to clamp down on airdrops – free distributions of crypto tokens.
Below is the article containing key takeaways from a paper that analyzes Ethereum’s smart contract topology.
The study was conducted by a group of researchers from the Northeastern University and the University of Maryland.
Scientists state, among other things, that approximately 60% of all contracts created have never been interacted with.
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The study was conducted by a group of researchers from the Northeastern University and the University of Maryland.
Scientists state, among other things, that approximately 60% of all contracts created have never been interacted with.
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At Devcon 4, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said that in order to succeed, the project he created needs to depend on him less. A step back is “a necessary part of the growth of the community,” he claimed.
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MIT Technology Review
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin says his creation can’t succeed unless he takes a step back
At Ethereum’s annual developer conference, its founder tells us why his technology can only be truly decentralized if it stops depending on him.
The Twitter social network is one of the favorite habitats for the representatives of the cryptocurrency community, but its capabilities are not being fully utilized. Social networks are what the millennial generation likes, and without which generation Z cannot even imagine living. Although lately, the majority of social networks have witnessed a slowdown in the number of users (in the case of Facebook, it is a significant outflow of the young and middle generations), such communication systems have great educational potential.
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What Is the Role of Twitter for Cryptocurrencies?
Hypocrisy and profits blend in Twitter posts.