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The ability to 51% attack Bitcoin indicates that it’s decentralized. It’s impossible to fix this vulnerability without adding centralization, argued Litecoin founder Charlie Lee and Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell. Characteristic of decentralization Decentralization is one of the most important attributes of blockchain technology according to some of the most prolific figures in the industry. […]

Block.one is planning to phase out free network resources on EOSIO after the feature allowed an attacker to exploit a smart contract for 30,000 EOS. On the heels of v1.8, network’s first consensus hard fork upgrade, Block.one is moving block producers to eliminate free network resources. Currently, during times of low congestion surplus resources are […]

Today, Pierre Rochard, a well-known Bitcoin advocate, joined Kraken as the crypto exchange’s “Bitcoin evangelist.” “When I spoke with the team at Kraken, it became clear that joining them would be the best way I can help Bitcoin achieve mass adoption,” said Pierre Rochard in his announcement. Pierre Rochard is one of the major influencers […]

Bitcoin mentions on Twitter hit an all-time low, dropping to around 8,300. At its peak, Bitcoin was seeing 155,000 mentions at the beginning of December 2017. Nonetheless, the change doesn’t mean the world’s attention toward BTC is getting any lower. #Bitcoin largely missing from Twitter While the so-called crypto community was born from online forums […]

OKEx launched an initiative to develop a global compliance standard for cryptocurrency exchanges. This will be done through a self-regulated organization whose members will work together to define and adopt these standards. OKEx leads the way for global exchange standards The lack of worldwide standards for regulating cryptocurrency exchanges has been a persistent problem in […]

Britain’s foremost financial watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, is contemplating a blanket-ban on cryptocurrency derivatives for retail traders as early as 2020, The Economist reported. The meeting comes on the heels of a statement released in early July by the FCA proposing a ban on crypto derivatives—high-risk assets where “retail consumers might suffer harm from […]

Qtum is preparing for its first hard fork since its inception back in September 2017. The system upgrade is focused on the underlying technology behind the protocol. Dubbed Qtum 2.0, it aims to integrate a number of functions and improvements to its blockchain. Qtum 2.0 On Oct. 17, 2019, at block 466,600, a system upgrade […]

Brave, the company behind the eponymous browser, presented the world’s first distributed virtual private network (VPN). The new form of VPN has no central authority and will function as a peer-to-peer network to preserve the privacy of its users. Laying the foundation for a decentralized VPN system The research and development team from Brave published […]

One of the most popular technical indexes among traders suggests that some of the top altcoins by market capitalization—including Ethereum, Litecoin, Binance Coin, Cardano, Monero, Dash, and Ontology—are on the cusp of high volatility. The next major price swing Over the last week the cryptocurrency market entered a consolidation period following a steep market decline […]

Oneiro, the company behind cryptocurrency ndau, announced that it has secured a $5 million investment from Cosimo Ventures. So far, even after millions of dollars of investment, the project has had limited adoption and abysmal trading volume. Oneiro gets cash injection from Cosimo Ventures Oneiro, a Boston-based blockchain company that claims to have created the […]