Tag: decentralized

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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Opolis, a new blockchain-based innovation promising to give users full control over their employment and employment benefits through the use of a new ‘Decentralized Employment Organization’ concept has announced its launch. The platform describes itself as the future of the world of work where people have full control over their employment. What Opolis Wants to Solve The problems that Opolis…

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In 2002, Rice University’s Sitaram Iyer and Peter Druschel, along with Microsoft Research’s Antony Rowstron presented a paper called Squirrel; a decentralized, peer-to-peer web cache alternative. A P2P Internet With Squirrel, instead of the existing web cache system used today, web browsers on desktop machines could share their local caches to form a more efficient and scalable web cache. The…

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With an aim to take cryptocurrencies mainstream, Unifox is developing an autonomous decentralized ecosystem. The company believes that its products will help digital currencies be used for everyday transactions. With a growing number of cryptocurrency ATMs, exchange offices, and POS terminals, Unifox will enable buyers and sellers to complete transactions in cryptocurrency that can also be instantly converted to fiat….

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