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by Michael Scott at Commentary
My friend D.C. sent this message to a group of us Bitcoiners through a messaging app while visiting N.Y. recently, “I’m in New York and just tried to log onto ShapeShift. This is what I got (on my computer screen).” “CENSORED IN NEW YORK This service is censored in New York State due to regulations which mandate the extraction of…
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Zcash developers have made a significant breakthrough in the mathematical development of the proving systems for the shielded addresses that fuel Zcash by introducing a new variation of elliptic curve cryptography which is more efficient and speeds up the hashing process tremendously. This new development will be included with other substantial improvements to Zcash in the Sapling upgrade, and if…
Category: Bitcoin, Commentary, News
In a recent interview, associate professor at the Finance Academy of Social Sciences Institute of China, Zhou Ziheng, discussed China’s tough regulatory attitude, the digitization of the economy, and the two great forces of any economy; the public and the private. Cryptocurrency in Limbo Ziheng spoke with associates of Chinese press 8btc.com in regards to the recent market closure on…
Category: ICO News
Software consumers are poised for the luxury of options and a competitively priced market as blockchain solutions platform, Spheris introduces a Decentralized Application Marketplace (DAM) into the software ecommerce ecosystem. The Cost of Middlemen The existing bureaucracy involved in getting software applications into the hands of consumers is clearly a major factor that leads to the exaggerated prices currently experienced…
Category: ICO News
While there has been a boom in blockchain-related projects and a digital gold rush for tokens, abiding by the law and regulations have become secondary. SmartOne wants to motivate stronger legal and regulatory advice for such projects, which so far are unable to reach global capital markets for investment due to the regulatory and compliance pitfalls. SmartOne will also create…
Category: Bitcoin, Blockchain, News, Tech
In his blog, Peter Todd explains the difference between pure fantasy and “hard sci-fi”. If you’re not familiar with the latter term, it refers to science fiction with a focus on scientific accuracy. It walks the line between a Robert A. Heinlein novel and a conversation with Carl Sagan. With this in mind, Todd lances his speculation for transporting large…
Category: ICO News
Rockchain, a distributed data intelligence platform connecting to local data stores and performing map reduce operations on structured data, provides secured and auditable computation resources on a totally distributed network, without any central ownership of computation nodes. By connecting to “FactMap nodes”, which are computers inside corporate networks, any data aggregation or computation logic task can be performed. A crowdsale…
Category: Bitcoin, News, Regulation
The Bank of Finland published a report on September 5 that heaped praise on the complex infrastructure behind Bitcoin that prevents manipulation from unethical agents. Economic Innovation Economists working for The Bank of Finland, Gur Huberman, Jacob Leshno, and Ciamac Moallemi, affirmed that Bitcoin is truly a revolutionary system of currency. The three also point out the great power behind…
Category: Altcoins, News, Tech
Most internet sites generate revenue through advertising. But when you run a pirate website and provide access to films and a whole host of other copyrighted media to the masses, advertising is not a suitable source of revenue. The Pirate Bay has tested an ingenious solution to help keep the website afloat; ‘borrowing’ user’s CPU to mine cryptocurrency, specifically monero,…
Category: News, News Digest
The past week was tumultuous for bitcoin holders as the price of bitcoin temporarily collapsed to trade below the $3,000 mark for the first time in over a month. This correction was sparked after JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon publicly declared bitcoin a fraud and when Chinese bitcoin exchanges BTCC, ViaBTC, and Yunbi announced their closures. China was once considered the…
