Tag: smart contracts

This guide will help developers and enthusiasts write and deploy their first smart contract. Coding skills will be helpful but are not mandatory for merely following the guide. Also check out the previous post of this series: Trade Code: How to Determine Ethereum Arbitrage Opportunities Using Command Line On Cloud. Smart Contracts and their Beginnings Before diving into the first…

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In the battlefield of the world of crypto which is often plagued by malicious hackers and careless developers, safety and security are often taken for granted. In this interview at the International Blockchain Conference in Hyderabad 2018, BTCManager spoke to Hartej Sawhney co-founder of security firm Hosho, regarding the current state of the smart contracts and blockchain security. Meet Hartej Hartej…

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The Bitcoin Cash team partnered with Bitmain to enable Smart Contract technology over the bitcoin cash blockchain using a Tokenization protocol called Wormhole. Bitcoin Cash’s Smart Contract Push According to Yours.org, on July 16, 2018, Bitmain developers have proposed the implementation of a tokenization protocol which enables smart contracts on the BCH blockchain. The proposal was first introduced through a…

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The world’s first completely decentralized blockchain banking operation made up of only smart contracts has launched on the Ethereum network. The open-source banking platform called Marble was unveiled in a blog post on July 17, 2018. The announcement revealed that Marble would use smart contracts to provide funding to low-risk and provably fair protocols in need of a lender. Marble’s…

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The betting industry is getting old. The internet was responsible for an incredible momentum in the betting industry. The sector was booking, and the market kept growing until it came to a halt as there were little to no innovation in the industry. Now, it seems that cryptocurrency is here to give it a little push and introduce significant changes…

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On the September 26, 2018 at London Olympia, Europe’s premier event in the blockchain calendar celebrates the latest and greatest in Blockchain, DLT and Smart Contracts. Working with respected affiliates such as the Blockchain Research Institute, techUK and 11:FS, Blockchain Live boasts the big names in blockchain with the likes of Bitfury, ConsenSys and EOS sharing  the stage with leading industry…

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Security of smart contracts built on the Ethereum blockchain have been a critical talking point for quite some time now. The DAO hack, for instance, ultimately resulted in losses of over $50 million. At the time, the hack left almost 14 percent of Ethereum in the hands of the attackers. To combat an encore of this, Callisto is building a…

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While the term “smart contract” piques a lot of interest, especially since they can remove intermediaries in the construction, execution, and enforcement of a contract, and enforce contracts automatically, trustlessly, and impartially, they may not be as smart as we believe them to be. Jimmy Song, a bitcoin educator, developer, and entrepreneur, believes that smart contracts are unfortunately not very…

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Streamity team announced StreamDesk service launch dates and explained its future plans. There is little time left until the launch of Streamity project’s main service. In the run-up to this event Streamity team presented its alpha-version, which is accessible for testing to those people who want to check out service functionalities. StreamDesk is a decentralized platform for cryptocurrency exchange, which…

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In what seems like the world’s first revenge cryptocurrency transaction, an Australian cryptocurrency firm is being investigated by the police after allegations that it fraudulently used a “software backdoor” to reclaim its digital tokens following a failed business deal. Cryptocurrency Firm Gone Rogue As per an Information Security Media Group (ISME) report on June 5, 2018, Soar Labs allegedly scammed…

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