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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is reportedly worth more than $400 million, but he’s nonchalant about his vast wealth. The 24-year-old, says today’s bitcoin millionaires became rich mostly through luck, although most won’t admit it. The Difference Between Intelligence and Luck Cryptocurrency bulls like to think they’re smarter than “the masses” for buying crypto before it became trendy, but Buterin says…

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In a new application of blockchain technology, the Betrium ICO is looking to the lucrative $533 billion global gaming industry for potentially handsome returns. A group of entrepreneurial developers, all graduates from MIT and MIPT, are now offering the first “worldwide betting service” that is partly decentralized. Betrium will accept cryptocurrencies while charging zero percent commission. The platform behind the…

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Even though cryptocurrency exchanges may be experiencing a tough time dealing with regulatory bodies in Japan and South Korea, there seems to be little effect on those in the North American continent. Shorcan Digital Currency Network (SDCN), a subsidiary of the Canada-based financial institution, TMX Group, has agreed with Paycase Financial to provide cryptocurrency brokerage services for clients across North…

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Coinbase, one of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, has had a nasty bug lurking in its system that would allow users to collect unlimited ether through a few simple steps. Thanks to a bug report, however, the company avoided disaster. A Dutch FinTech company, VI Company, publicly disclosed a Coinbase bug on March 20. According to the vulnerability report,…

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New York-based blockchain startup Consensys has partnered with an affiliate of marketplace trueEX known as trueDigital Holdings (TDH), to develop a benchmark price for ether, Ethereum’s cryptocurrency. The March 12 press release mentions that Consensys and TDH will have a reference index price for ether. Ether is currently the second largest cryptocurrency with a current total value of more than…

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Back in the early days of ether (ETH) trading, when it was only $0.25, Simon de la Rouviere wrote a story. The premise was that in the near future software could recreate a person and simulate it in Virtual Reality via information people gave to the blockchain willingly. With this power, those people could relive old experiences with that data…

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Communication in this modern area has added some interesting nuances to the workplace. Working remotely, or from home, has become a lot more commonplace in a lot of industries. Though this sounds ideal for many, it does have the downside of lacking the socialization of a traditional office. A new hotel in Singapore adopts bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH), and…

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There has been an undeniable rise in the number of social media platforms built using blockchain technology, which often goes the length of calling themselves a decentralized social media network. However, these new networks have a very different business model as compared to their popular pre-existing counterparts. While online social media is usually free for users, decentralized social networks tend…

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Many applications have been developed in the past year to work on the blockchains of the world. Cryptocurrencies have seen huge advances in 2017 with Ethereum making a significant splash on the crypto stage. Applications have been built to run on the Ethereum blockchain that allows individuals to buy, sell, trade, collect and gamble digital assets. The users of the…

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Taylor Monahan, the co-founder of Ethereum wallet service, MyEtherWallet, popularly known by the abbreviation MEW, has announced in a post on Medium that she will be spearheading a new competitor, MyCrypto.com. MyEtherWallet gets Forked In her blog post, Taylor has given a brief history of how she and her other co-founder Kvhnuke set up MyEtherWallet, initially as a sidekick, which…

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