Tag: decentralized

EOS, the second most used blockchain for smart contracts recently announced the release of a new protocol built on top of its blockchain that improves support for developers on, as per a post on November 19, 2018.  EOS, the second most used blockchain for Smart Contracts recently announced the release of a new protocol built on top of its blockchain…

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The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has instructed banks in the country who handle cryptocurrency to weight cryptoassets at eight times their market value when calculating loss-absorbing capital. According to a secret letter quoted by swissinfo.ch in a story published on November 5, 2018, the regulator has imposed the new rule to protect the stability of the Swiss banking…

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Recently, the United Nations released its findings from a landmark climate change study that concluded that disaster is much closer than many people expected. The much-publicized story brought global climate change back into the headlines, and it returned focus to possible solutions for the crisis. Among the most lauded solutions to this particular problem is a carbon tax that would…

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A new project called Coda is developing a cryptocurrency that will be able to remain decentralized at scale by compressing its blockchain so that users can run nodes in their browsers. Should Coda become a success, this could usher in a new area of decentralization and scalability for future cryptocurrency projects.   What is Coda? The Coda Protocol refers to…

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After helping Ugandans to become their banks and seamlessly carry out daily financial transactions like purchasing mobile airtime, paying electricity bills and more, without having to pay exorbitant banking fees, the creators of DALA, an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token, are now partnering with the Ugandan government and other local firms to develop a blockchain-powered renewable energy economy, reported TechCrunch on October…

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With the Midterm elections on any everyone’s mind as people begin to register, a Medium article published September 27, 2018, talked about the benefits that implementing blockchain technology could bring to democracy as a whole. Manipulation of Voting in the Past With evidence recently coming out that Russia may have played a hand in the 2016 presidential elections, the security issues…

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The rise of blockchain in the past few years has led to the introduction of some rather novel use cases. In that vein, Dmunity is a decentralized social media website that is built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. The development team categorizes it as a social curation market, which essentially means that users can earn crypto for their contributions…

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Qravity, a media production and distribution platform that offers decentralized creative teams royalties for making movies, video games, music, and other forms of premium digital entertainment, is pleased to announce the launch of its token presale. This stage of the Qravity ICO will take place from August 18 to 31, 2018. During this period, presale contributors will receive 30% bonus…

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In August 2018, Defense Distributed, a 3D printed firearm company, poised itself to re-release the blueprints for a handgun. This unleashed a political firestorm between gun rights activists and firearm control enthusiasts. Eventually, a federal judge stopped the distribution. While this was a distribution of information, it was a distribution of information which could potentially harm someone with a firearm….

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Everipedia, the decentralized encyclopedia application, has abandoned the Ethereum blockchain to launch on EOS instead. Everipedia’s developers believe that building the platform on Ethereum is “infeasibly difficult” due to its existing scalability issues. Everipedia: A Censorship-Resistant Encyclopedia According to The Next Web, Everipedia wants to usher a new database of information that is genuinely open and free of censorship. Although…

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