Today, the total number of daily users of all dApps barely exceeds 50,000 people, and this can hardly be compared with the multi-million audience of popular computer games. The most famous EOS dApp, Endless Dice, has 11,644 users, while the most popular Ethereum dApp, My Crypto Heroes, has a total of 2,647 users. DeCenter gathered expert opinion on why 2018 did not become the year of dApps.
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Why the Killer dApps Got Lost Somewhere along the Way
The vaunted dApp is a long time coming, but it will see its rise. Eventually.
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💠 When can one expect the arrival of futures contracts on Ether (ETH)? The Block tried to answer that question.
via The Block
💵 Cryptocurrency payment processing company Bitpay reportedly handled over $1 billion in payments in 2018.
via Bitcoin.com
🇹🇭 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is seeking a cryptocurrency license from the country’s Finance Ministry.
via ccn
✍🏻 WordPress is launching a new publishing platform backed by Google and ConsenSys. It will offer blockchain features.
via CoinDesk
❌ After filing for bankruptcy, cryptocurrency mining firm Giga Watt has reportedly stopped day-to-day operations.
via Cointelegraph
💠 When can one expect the arrival of futures contracts on Ether (ETH)? The Block tried to answer that question.
via The Block
💵 Cryptocurrency payment processing company Bitpay reportedly handled over $1 billion in payments in 2018.
via Bitcoin.com
🇹🇭 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is seeking a cryptocurrency license from the country’s Finance Ministry.
via ccn
✍🏻 WordPress is launching a new publishing platform backed by Google and ConsenSys. It will offer blockchain features.
via CoinDesk
❌ After filing for bankruptcy, cryptocurrency mining firm Giga Watt has reportedly stopped day-to-day operations.
via Cointelegraph
Developers of the Brave browser will soon introduce a feature allowing users to collect reward for viewing web ads.
This version provides a preview for users to test ad display and delivery, but does not yet include advertiser confirmation or user payment for ad views. The ability to earn BAT (Basic Attention Tokens) for viewing ads will come in several weeks in our beta channel. Users will then be able to earn 70% of the revenue share coming from those ads. Brave Ads will be integrated in Brave’s upcoming 1.0 desktop browser on all platforms (macOS, Windows, Linux), as well as in the Android app (iOS will be available later). As part of Brave Rewards, Brave Ads are opt in and always will be.
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This version provides a preview for users to test ad display and delivery, but does not yet include advertiser confirmation or user payment for ad views. The ability to earn BAT (Basic Attention Tokens) for viewing ads will come in several weeks in our beta channel. Users will then be able to earn 70% of the revenue share coming from those ads. Brave Ads will be integrated in Brave’s upcoming 1.0 desktop browser on all platforms (macOS, Windows, Linux), as well as in the Android app (iOS will be available later). As part of Brave Rewards, Brave Ads are opt in and always will be.
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Brave Previews Opt-in Ads in Desktop Browser Developer Channel | Brave Browser
Today we’re previewing our new digital advertising model in Brave’s Developer channel. Developers and testers using the latest desktop browser build for macOS and Windows can activate opt-in Brave Ads within the Brave Rewards settings in the browser.
Auditing firm Grant Thornton published an attestation report on the USDC stablecoin. According to the audit, Circle—the issuing company—had $251,211,209 in custody accounts against 251,211,148 tokens in circulation at the end of the previous year.
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Circle’s USDC Stablecoin Fully Dollar Backed, Says Latest Auditor’s Report
Crypto finance startup Circle’s USDC stablecoin was fully backed with fiat reserves at the close of 2018, according to auditing firm Grant Thornton.
On January 16, the network of the third-largest cryptocurrency by capitalization was supposed to activate the Constantinople upgrade. Less than a day before the long-awaited hard fork, however, the Ethereum team announced their decision to postpone the upgrade indefinitely. The reason was a critical vulnerability found in one of the scheduled updates. DeCenter reviewed the Constantinople hard fork plan and the reasons for its postponement.
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Not All Roads Lead to Constantinople
Ethereum has postponed its Constantinople upgrade indefinitely, and there are consequences.
The founder of the Mythos Capital cryptocurrency fund, Ryan Sean Adams, believes that “banks today are like newspapers in the early ’90s,” meaning that the development of the Internet has led to the fact that large amounts of information received by people started migrating to the computer screen, and later—to the smartphone. But the print press still exists, trying to survive, including through better printing, the inclusion of goods samplers, as well as other tricks that support interest in it. Almost 30 years have passed since the appearance of the Internet in society, but the print media survived. But will banks survive in the collision with new technologies, such as the blockchain and, actually, cryptocurrencies?
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What Threatens Banks: Cryptocurrency or Regulator Errors?
Banks are steadily losing to cryptocurrencies in their archaic and fossilized mentality and reliance on regulators.
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❄️ Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has frozen a portion of funds that had been stolen from Cryptopia and then transferred to the platform.
via The Block
👨🏻💻 ICORating analysts released the Exchange Security Report, according to which, 16 percent of the world’s major cryptocurrency exchanges scored an A.
via Cointelegraph
🤝 Coinbase has acquired Blockspring, an Andreessen Horowitz–backed startup that designs tools for retrieving and managing data from APIs.
via CoinDesk
👨🎓 Academic staff from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University teamed up to design a cryptocurrency that would be capable of processing thousands of transactions per second.
via Bloomberg
🇺🇿 After legitimizing cryptocurrency activity last fall, the state of Uzbekistan is now considering new moves in the Central Asian digital assets arena.
via Forbes
❄️ Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has frozen a portion of funds that had been stolen from Cryptopia and then transferred to the platform.
via The Block
👨🏻💻 ICORating analysts released the Exchange Security Report, according to which, 16 percent of the world’s major cryptocurrency exchanges scored an A.
via Cointelegraph
🤝 Coinbase has acquired Blockspring, an Andreessen Horowitz–backed startup that designs tools for retrieving and managing data from APIs.
via CoinDesk
👨🎓 Academic staff from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University teamed up to design a cryptocurrency that would be capable of processing thousands of transactions per second.
via Bloomberg
🇺🇿 After legitimizing cryptocurrency activity last fall, the state of Uzbekistan is now considering new moves in the Central Asian digital assets arena.
via Forbes
Cryptocurrency payroll service provider Bitwage has entered into a partnership with a Texas-based firm Simply Efficient HR. The move will now enable regular payroll employees all over the U.S. to receive salaries in Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH).
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American Companies Can Now Settle Payroll Taxes In Cryptocurrency via Bitwage
International cryptocurrency payroll service provider Bitwage has announced that it has partnered with Texas-based Simply Efficient HR. The move will
Total trading volume on the cryptocurrency exchange Huobi’s derivatives market has crossed a $20 billion mark.
The figure constitutes a twofold increase over the past 15 days.
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The figure constitutes a twofold increase over the past 15 days.
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Huobi’s Crypto Derivatives Market Has Already Passed $20 Billion in Trades
Huobi's new crypto derivatives platform has already seen $20 billion in trading volume, just two weeks after hitting the $10 billion mark.
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The list of cryptocurrencies is constantly growing, despite their volatile rates. Today, according to CoinMarketCap, there are more than 2,000 crypto coins, which are present in the investment portfolios of crypto holders in different amounts. Due to the abundant supply on the market, users need to exchange one coin for another. Digital assets are converted by third-party exchanges. But the blockchain industry, which in its principle denies the presence of intermediaries, cannot exchange, for example, Litecoin to Ether with the help of third-party companies. On January 9, the Qtum blockchain project presented atomic swaps for the direct exchange of cryptocurrencies. DeCenter reviewed the structure of this technology and found out its potential for further development.
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Transfers without Intermediaries, or How Atomic Swaps Work
The future of exchanges may well lie with atomic swaps, but it still looks blurry from here.
Deloitte, a top-notch audit, consulting, tax, and advisory services provider, has teamed up with The Institutes RiskBlock Alliance to develop blockchain solutions for the insurance industry out of Canada.
The tandem is currently actively collaborating with the local regulators.
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The tandem is currently actively collaborating with the local regulators.
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Deloitte Expands Into Canada With Blockchain Insurance Consortium RiskBlock
In an announcement on September 25, auditing and consulting firm Deloitte announced a plan to help RiskBlock Alliance expand into Canada. In November, RiskBlock announced it would also chair blockchain standards for the insurance industry.
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📉 According to a recent research report, U.S. cryptocurrency investors incurred $5.7 billion in unrealized losses last year.
via Bitcoin.com
🇳🇱 Netherlands’ Minister of Finance has received official advice that cryptocurrency businesses should be subjected to licensing.
via Cointelegraph
🇰🇷 Two executives at a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange have been sentenced to jail for faking trading volume.
via The Block
🇨🇱 Taxpayers from Chile must report their cryptocurrency-related profits to the country’s domestic Internal Revenue Service.
via Cointelegraph
🗓 Online retailer Overstock plans to launch its security token trading platform as soon as the end of the week.
via CoinDesk
📉 According to a recent research report, U.S. cryptocurrency investors incurred $5.7 billion in unrealized losses last year.
via Bitcoin.com
🇳🇱 Netherlands’ Minister of Finance has received official advice that cryptocurrency businesses should be subjected to licensing.
via Cointelegraph
🇰🇷 Two executives at a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange have been sentenced to jail for faking trading volume.
via The Block
🇨🇱 Taxpayers from Chile must report their cryptocurrency-related profits to the country’s domestic Internal Revenue Service.
via Cointelegraph
🗓 Online retailer Overstock plans to launch its security token trading platform as soon as the end of the week.
via CoinDesk
Cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift has revealed details about legal requests it received from law enforcement agencies in 2018.
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Cryptocurrency wallet provider Blockchain is aiming to strike a partnership with a stablecoin project by the end of the year. The move will likely enable users to store the selected stablecoin in their wallet.
“I think all major stablecoin projects at the moment believe they need us. The question is which one do we decide that we need?” the firm’s CEO Peter Smith told The Block.
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“I think all major stablecoin projects at the moment believe they need us. The question is which one do we decide that we need?” the firm’s CEO Peter Smith told The Block.
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Blockchain is eyeing a stablecoin partnership it says could ‘shift the market’
Blockchain, the largest cryptocurrency wallet provider, is looking to partner with one stablecoin by the end of 2019, CEO Peter Smith told The Block. The company has its sights on becoming one the biggest names in the crypto market and says it has “an obsession”…
A Tokyo-listed company will start trialing its settlement system using Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechain. The product will allow for the issuance of stablecoins, including a Japanese yen-pegged one.
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Digital Garage to Test Yen-Pegged Stablecoin on Blockstream Network - CoinDesk
A Digital Garage subsidiary has partnered with blockchain tech firm Blockstream to test atomic swaps of a Japanese yen-pegged stablecoin.
While some are trying to view the future of cryptocurrencies through kittens on the blockchain, and others dream of contactless payments for everything with Bitcoins, Travis Kling, the former head of Point72 Asset Management (a hedge fund that controls $12.4 billion of assets), offers his vision of the world economy using cryptocurrencies. And these assumptions are not groundless.
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Asset Class Race: Will Cryptocurrencies Become the Leader in 2019?
2019 is sure to hold many surprises for the cryptocurrency industry, most good rather than bad.
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📃 Wyoming legislators introduced a bill, which, if passed, would classify digital assets as property within existing laws.
via Forbes
📈 The volume of on-chain transactions on the Ethereum network reached an all-time high in December 2018.
via Cointelegraph
💵 Japanese financial services provider SBI Group has invested $15 million in a Swiss startup that makes a one-of-its-kind cryptocurrency hardware wallet.
via CoinDesk
🔄 HBUS, the partner exchange of Singapore-based Huobi Group, underwent rebranding in an attempt to grow its U.S. clientele.
via The Block
🗣 Cryptocurrencies fail fundamental tests of financial services, according to a senior adviser to the governor of Bank of England.
via Bloomberg
📃 Wyoming legislators introduced a bill, which, if passed, would classify digital assets as property within existing laws.
via Forbes
📈 The volume of on-chain transactions on the Ethereum network reached an all-time high in December 2018.
via Cointelegraph
💵 Japanese financial services provider SBI Group has invested $15 million in a Swiss startup that makes a one-of-its-kind cryptocurrency hardware wallet.
via CoinDesk
🔄 HBUS, the partner exchange of Singapore-based Huobi Group, underwent rebranding in an attempt to grow its U.S. clientele.
via The Block
🗣 Cryptocurrencies fail fundamental tests of financial services, according to a senior adviser to the governor of Bank of England.
via Bloomberg
• Coinbase has acquired 13 companies since it was founded
• The exchange’s venture arm, Coinbase Ventures, has made investments in 27 startups
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• The exchange’s venture arm, Coinbase Ventures, has made investments in 27 startups
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