BloombergWhen Bitcoin plunged as much as 15 percent over two days last week, a theory emerged -- where else? -- on the Internet: a whale was on the move. Speculation mounted that a major holder of cryptocurrency with an electronic wallet that dated back to 2011 -- long before anyone had heard of HODL -- was moving to sell. His or her wallet had once had as many as 111,114 Bitcoins, which at their peak would have been worth about $2 billion. The rumors that began two weeks ago were that this whale -- as big holders are known -- was looking to cash out after this year’s plunge in prices. Debates flared up on Reddit. Galaxy-like graphs were disseminated. And Bitcoin origin stories from Dread Pirate Roberts to Mt. Gox re-emerged. The case has all the elements of a classic Bitcoin mystery: famous wallets, a vicious cycle of speculation reinforcing a selloff and intense amateur sleuthing on the Internet that might not have exactly hit the mark. It also shows what makes Bitcoin unique: the pseudonymous, public nature of its blockchain means anyone can attempt to trace transactions. According to Chainalysis Inc., which provides cryptocurrency tracking tools to companies and law enforcement, 50 transactions involving a total of 50,500 Bitcoins originating from that whale’s wallet were moved between Aug. 23 and 30. Based on Aug. 22’s closing price in Bloomberg’s composite data, they would be worth about $320 million. Chainalysis said they cannot confirm that the coins entered exchanges. Detective Work “This is actually really interesting because of the Reddit detective work that’s been happening and just people making these assumptions that this whale is cashing out,” said Kim Grauer, senior economist at Chainalysis in New York. “It leads to conspiracy theories that someone’s trying to sabotage Bitcoin -- just from someone doing an administrative move of their funds for security purposes, or we don’t even know why they have done it.” Chainalysis’s software helps detect money laundering by mapping relationships between addresses, which enables it to identify at least one counterparty in about 80 percent of transactions, Grauer said. The narrative is also complicated by the fact that while the 50,500 Bitcoins originated from the whale (address: 1933phfhK3ZgFQNLGSDXvqCn32k2buXY8a), most were scattered in 2014 to various wallets that might all be controlled by the same person -- or not -- and later moved to one wallet again. According to Chainalysis, there were only small transactions associated with this stash until last year, when a thousand Bitcoins were cashed out from the original address. Then there was again a period of little movement -- until August. The Bitcoin community has a tradition of watching the wallets of these early hoarders, such as that of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of the cryptocurrency. Dread Pirate Roberts On crypto news sites, Reddit and Twitter, some onlookers speculated that the wallet is linked to Ross Ulbricht, who went by the alias “Dread Pirate Roberts,” the convicted operator for Silk Road, an online marketplace for illicit goods that was one of the early adopters of Bitcoin. Another theory is that it is associated with Mt. Gox, a collapsed Tokyo-based exchange that has to pay back its creditors by liquidating some of its leftover Bitcoin holdings. As Bitcoin tumbled last week, the community was also afire with a longstanding exchange ShapeShift’s decision to start collecting users’ personal information and reports that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was retreating on near-term plans to set up a crypto trading desk. The timing of the whale’s moves -- in Chainalysis’s telling -- doesn’t exactly coincide with the price declines, but the speculation alone may have contributed to the selloff. “There will always be these historical addresses that become a little bit of a treasure hunt almost -- who they are and when people move them really does spark interest,” said Danny Scott, co-founder at CoinCorner, a crypto exchange and wallet provider based in Isle of Man. “There’s so much noise around the industry and it’s hard to weed out what’s actually happening behind the scenes.”
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cnbcLast spring, Associate Professor of Computer Science Emin Gün Sirer was scheduled to teach a 600-level course on blockchain technology at Cornell University, an advanced class intended for PhD students. "Usually when you have five to a dozen students in such a class, you're teaching a popular class," Sirer tells CNBC Make It with a laugh. But when Sirer arrived on the first day to teach, he was shocked: 88 students had shown up. "It was pretty interesting to see that level of interest," Sirer says of the students, most of whom were undergraduates. Those Cornell students aren't an anomaly: At other top universities across the country, students are anxious to enroll in courses focused on the proliferation of blockchain, a decentralized ledger technology that underpins cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. Blockchain 101? According to a new survey of 675 U.S. undergraduate students by cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and Qriously, 9 percent of students have already taken a class related to blockchain or cryptocurrency and 26 percent want to take one. Among courses on blockchain, the University of Pennsylvania offers "Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and Distributed Ledger Technology," taught by Kevin Werbach and engineering professor David Crosbie; University of California at Berkeley offers "Blockchain and CryptoEconomics," taught by computer science professor Dawn Song; and Cornell offers a course on Cryptography. Last year, Song had around 100 students from her department competing to nab one of 25 available seats in a blockchain class she co-taught with faculty from the business and law schools on campus. This year, she's still seeing high demand for her blockchain course. "It's still very popular," Song tells CNBC Make It. "I think students are intrigued to learn about the technology which is very broad ranging and both has deep historic academic roots as well as exciting new frontiers." The course professor Werbach, who teaches legal studies and business ethics at The Wharton School, will be co-teaching this fall is the university's first full-credit class entirely focused on blockchain. A big reason for the increased interest in blockchain classes is job prospects, he says. "There is rapidly growing student interest," says Werbach. "They're seeing opportunities with companies that want students to work in this area, which include both blockchain focused start-ups as well as major companies. "Wharton sends people to all the Fortune 500 companies, and investment banks and technology firms. A very high percentage of those leading firms now have blockchain or distributed ledger projects, and they're looking for expertise in that area," Werbach explains. University of Pennsylvania Professor Kevin Werbach speaking. Source: The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Professor Kevin Werbach speaking. Indeed, job postings related to bitcoin on LinkedIn increased nine-fold in the financial services industry and four-fold in the software technology industry (as a proportion of overall job postings on LinkedIn) over the last three years, according to data provided by the platform to CNBC Make It. As of Monday, there were 2,770 open jobs related to "blockchain" posted on careers website Glassdoor. Tech companies like IBM, Facebook and Amazon have all started blockchain initiatives. And though the most widely known use for blockchain is cryptocurrencies, industry proponents say the potential applications are numerous and far-reaching, from tracking the supply chain of food as it travels from farms to your plate to helping you shop for electricity. A full 84 percent of companies are "actively involved" with blockchain technology, according to PwC's 2018 Global Blockchain Survey.
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WashingtonPostThe price of bitcoin may be down, compared with last year's meteoric heights. But industry officials aren't waiting for the next spike in investor demand to launch a charm offensive targeting federal lawmakers and regulators who've taken an interest in cryptocurrencies. Tech veterans and a number of high-profile cryptocurrency companies on Tuesday said they are forming the Blockchain Association, the first fully fledged lobbying group in Washington representing entrepreneurs and investors who are building off the technology behind bitcoin. Joining the initial push are companies such as Coinbase and Circle, which operate some of the world's most popular virtual currency exchanges, as well as the technology start-up Protocol Labs. Investors, such as Digital Currency Group and Polychain Capital, are also among the founding members. The group has already made its first hire: Kristin Smith, who was an aide to then-Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) and went on to lobby on blockchain issues for Overstock.com, the online retailer that in 2014 began accepting payments in bitcoin. "I've been spending a lot of time doing a lot of the basic education work in this space,” said Smith, who is expected to guide the trade group through its early steps. “I'm excited to focus exclusively on these issues." Policymakers have been confronted in recent months with an array of cryptocurrency issues as investors have flocked to bitcoin and other virtual currencies. The technology on which they're based raises novel questions about financial regulation in a digital age — and in some cases, consumers have become the victims of scams that have attracted attention from state and federal regulators. Congressional hearings on cryptocurrency and recent decisions by the Securities and Exchange Commission have also highlighted bitcoin's and other cryptocurrencies' growing profile. The Blockchain Association aims to become the cryptocurrency industry's top lobbying organization in Washington on policy issues, portraying itself as a voice for mainstream companies that want to work within the political system rather than circumventing it — as companies such as Uber and Airbnb have done in the past. Among its first priorities will be addressing how cryptocurrencies are treated under U.S. tax law, and explaining to policymakers how anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer regulations apply to the industry. "The Blockchain Association is an effort to get the preeminent companies in the space together so [policymakers] know they're hearing from companies that welcome regulation when it’s appropriate,” said Mike Lempres, Coinbase's chief legal and risk officer. “We’re not companies looking to game the system, but trying to develop a legal and regulatory system that’ll stand the test of time." This isn't the only time blockchain advocates have sought to play the Washington influence game. Half a decade ago, organizations such as the Bitcoin Foundation played a similar role. But it was a catchall organization — representing industry as well as individual consumers; acting as a think tank, lobbying group and standard-setting body, all in one. Now, the cryptocurrency field is far more developed, with distinct sectors and interest groups, said Jerry Brito, executive director of the Coin Center, a Washington-based cryptocurrency think tank. To see the rise of a purpose-specific trade group is a sign of the industry's growing maturity, he added. "We’re happy to see this organization stand up,” Brito said. “It’s good to have more voices advocating for things we agree about. But probably more importantly for us, a lot of folks project 'trade association' onto Coin Center, and we're decidedly not that. When we get questions about the industry, we can send them to these folks."
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Why a Leading Venture Capitalist Is Betting on a Decentralized Internethris Dixon, arguably the most prominent venture capitalist focusing on blockchain, is friggin’ tall. Before sitting down with him inside the spa-like Silicon Valley offices of Andreessen Horowitz in August, I had talked to him a handful of times over the years, but always on the phone, so I didn’t exactly know about his height. As far as either of us can remember, Dixon and I initially talked in the mid-2000s, when he was running his first company, SiteAdvisor—a web security startup that got bought by McAfee in 2006. Next, Dixon cofounded Hunch, a wisdom-of-the-crowds recommendation site that eBay scooped up in 2011 for $80 million. Dixon joined VC superpower Andreessen Horowitz in 2013, around the time he made his first blockchain investment, in Ripple. He’s since led the firm into crypto investments that include Coinbase, OpenBazaar, and Mediachain. In June, Andreessen Horowitz unveiled a $300 million crypto fund, and brought in blockchain guru and former federal prosecutor Katie Haun to run it.After Dixon and the firm’s communications chief, Margit Wennmachers, greet me warmly in a hallway at Andreessen Horowitz, in Menlo Park, we make our way into a blah conference room. Dixon sits and stretches out his long frame, wearing a gray polo shirt, gray jeans, red-and-white striped socks and sneakers. The following is an edited version of our conversation, beginning right after Wennmachers reminds me that Dixon doesn’t like to talk about his private life. You just don’t like to talk about personal things? There are a lot of crazy people. We have people coming to our house thinking that we keep bitcoin there. OK, well, this is a little personal: I’m intrigued that you were a philosophy major. It was AI-meets-computer science that first got me introduced to philosophy, and reading Godel, Escher, Bach, which was really influential for me. I wrote my high school thesis on whether machines will someday think, and then I studied philosophy at Columbia: philosophy of language, philosophy of mind. Then I got interested in history and how innovation works, and this has been a constant interest of mine. Does any of that factor into what you do now? If you go back and you look at a lot of great innovations, they were driven by small groups of slightly crazy people who were motivated by what I would call the interestingness of the problem. It wasn’t practicality, right? That sounds right. For example, if you look at a lot of the early technology that bitcoin is based on…these people were not trying to go and disrupt the Federal Reserve or create computers to take on Facebook and Google. They were interested in these very obscure specialized problems. I wrote this blog post that kind of got popular. I wrote “what the smartest people will do on the weekends is what everyone else will do in work in 10 years.” It’s more than a coincidence that so many important technologies began in garages and dorm rooms. It has to do with the fact that there’s very few contexts in life in which people are able to focus on things that have a 10-plus year horizon. There’s academia and maybe government funded things, but the vast majority of people are private sector people—that’s where a lot of talented people are, right? It’s their weekends and night times. They’re motivated by interestingness. It tends to be predictive of things that will matter 10-plus years from now, but have no practical importance today. Satoshi’s paper describing bitcoin doesn’t talk at all about disrupting the world. I have it on my wall. The white paper actually fits on a poster. It’s actually that short. It’s a very modest kind of opening. So, there are two interpretations of the paper. One is it’s a submarine strategy of, “Oh, this is a little modest thing.” The other interpretation is it’s a deliberately understated technical discussion that had a secret intent.
You could read the rest on Breakermag[/ur] It is an awesome and big interview. Everything points to a REALLY BIg bull market. Do not go away if you have lost some money in the short time.
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 Vitalik Non-giver of Ether ✔ @VitalikButerin So I realized that the argument that "there's no value for ETH in ethereum as of today" is even wronger than I thought. The reason is that as of today, abstraction is not even implemented in ethereum. There are clear efficiency advantages to using ETH as a means of paying for gas: it's already baked into the protocol, zero gas cost to pay for gas (so no "tax tax"), network protocol supports it... It's not fair to rely on hypothetical future features to argue against something, and not admit *planned* future features as arguments in its favor. Also, ETH is the only medium of exchange on ethereum where the gas cost of transactions is 21000, and not ~40000. Abstraction would change this, but as I said, we have no active plans to do full abstraction. Those aren’t hypothetical future features. I’m sure you know it’s not unheard of that mining pools get compensated out-of-band for including transactions in blocks Oh sure, but that's still something extra that you have to do; it's not a default interface. Including a gas price into 4-8 bytes of transaction data that cost you nothing, on the other hand, is super-convenient. |
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BloomberIs the initial coin offering boom over? Startups raised just $326 million in August, the smallest amount since May 2017, according to data complied by Autonomous Research. That compares with about $3 billion on average during the first three months of the year. ICOs using the Ethereum blockchain are seen as one of the main catalysts for sending Ether’s price surging last year. Now they’re being blamed for its decline as some of those projects cash out to cover expenses and on concern this year’s cryptocurrency bear market will drag out.
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Me comprometo a excluir comentários spam e com campanhas que pagam com tokens que não são listados nas principais exchanges. Nem todas aceitam posts nos foruns locais.
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Não vi spam nele e ajudava muito usuarios. Ajudava a concentrar todas as discussões relativas a campanhas por ali. Além dele, outros tópicos com muitas postagens foram fechados. Tem alguns onde o assunto realmente se esgota, mas outros servem apenas para atualização sobre um determinado assunto. Bem melhor que abrir vários tópicos. Enfim, tem campnha nova pagando bem: Merit.me https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5015102.010x Full Member Spots Open ~ 0.004BTC/week. 13x Sr. Member Spots Open ~ 0.0065BTC/week. 10x Hero/Legendary Member Spots Open ~ 0.0125BTC/week. Não tem nenhuma proibição sobre posts locais.
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BloomberWith fewer than 100 residents, Ocean Falls is looking for a revival after almost four decades of industrial false starts.  In 1971, an 11th grader named Greg Strebel wrote the introduction to a book about Ocean Falls, the tiny town in the British Columbian hinterlands where he lived. Strebel mentioned the odd fact that many of the town’s roads were made of wood, said the weather wasn’t as bad as some people made it out to be and noted that it had just gotten a new school building. But the one thing that mattered above all, according to Strebel, was the paper mill. “To most, 'the mill’ imparts a sense of security by its presence,” he wrote. “A low throb of power is audible throughout most of the town as long as the mill runs, accompanied by voluminous exhalations of steam.” The security provided by the mill turned out to be fleeting. It went silent when Strebel was in his 20s. Most of the buildings in Ocean Falls that haven’t been demolished over the decades are crumbling in place, and Strebel, along with most everyone who once lived there, is long gone. A population that peaked at 5,000 has fallen below 100. But this summer, the mill began to emit a new sound. It was more of a buzz than a throb, really, but plenty loud to be heard as far away as the ferry dock and the old firehouse. It was the noise of hundreds of tiny fans blowing air past hundreds of tiny computers, keeping them cool while they ran 24 hours a day, creating Bitcoins. The Bitcoin mine has come to Ocean Falls after almost four decades of false starts. The town went dormant once the paper industry left, but it wasn’t dead, exactly. The dam that powered the mill was still capable of producing about 13 megawatts of electricity. Some of that went to power Ocean Falls and two nearby towns, Bella Bella and Shearwater. But even in the middle of winter, their residents used less than one-third of the electricity, leaving plenty to support new industrial uses. The dam wasn’t connected to the grid, a shortcoming that could also be an advantage in the right hands. Any power-hungry business willing to set up nearby would be well-positioned to negotiate a sweetheart deal.
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I'm noticing that many anonymous projects are going up in value today. Projects like Monero, Verge, Komodo, Zen. They grew a lot, with highlight to Bitcoin Dark that grew absurd 200%. It went from 17 dollars to over 80. Has there been any change in the prohibitions? Or would it be indicative of something strange that might occur?
BTW. BitocoinDark was swapped to Komodo. All of the team started working exclusively on Komodo.
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The threat of attack is very real for upstart cryptocurrency projects. Bitcoin Gold, a popular hard fork of Bitcoin, $BTC▲0.3% is set to be delisted from cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex. The reason for the removal is that the currency has suffered a series of debilitating heists that netted thieves over $20 million in stolen funds. Back in May, Bitcoin Gold was hijacked with rented computing power. After hackers took control of more than 51 percent of the overall hash power, more than 388,000 BTG (approx. $18 million at the time) was stolen directly from Bittrex. Hackers were able to use “double-spending,” a method of repeatedly tricking an exchange into transferring more coins than it should. In doing so, almost $18 million in cryptocurrency was stolen directly from exchanges. It is uncertain just how much was taken from Bittrex, but Bitcoin Gold maintains that compensation of over 12,000 BTG ($265,000) was requested. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that by September 14, Bitcoin Gold will be completely removed from Bittrex. In response, the Bitcoin Gold development team uploaded a lengthy statement, which told its side of the story: Bittrex informed us that they make this decision because the BTG team would not “take responsibility for our chain,” and that taking responsibility meant paying Bittrex 12,372 BTG to cover the loss they incurred. They later informed us they would cover part of the loss from their own BTG reserves and requested we pay the remaining ~6,000 BTG, and that if we did not, we would be delisted. This is proof that security incidents really do have a lasting effect on cryptocurrency projects. The dev team does defend itself by claiming the 51 percent attack that led the double-spending was not its fault. Instead, it blamed the Proof-of-Work consensus style on which Bitcoin Gold operates. The Bitcoin Gold team is not responsible for security policy within private entities like Bitrex (sic); those who earn revenue running a private business must manage the related risks and are ultimately responsible for their own security. Obviously, Bittrex does not feel the same way, but whether or not this will have an impact on the long-term survivability of Bitcoin Gold, isn’t yet clear. What is clear, though, is that market sentiment has turned. Last year, when $3.3 million worth of Bitcoin Gold was stolen after users were tricked into downloading a fake wallet, it was ranked the fifth largest cryptocurrency by market cap. https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/09/03/bittrex-delists-bitcoin-gold/
Bitcoin gold is a bad project from the beginning. I hope it disappears soon as it offers nothing innovative or revolutionary. |
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BitcoinistCould the abrupt and unannounced seizure of 22 Bitcoin ATMs spread across nine Russian cities signal the start of a wider crackdown on crypto-commerce? ILLEGAL SEARCH AND SEIZURE OF BITCOIN ATMS? Up until Friday, August 31, BBFpro was contentedly operating a modest Bitcoin ATM service throughout Russia. Then, without warning or explanation, all 22 ATMs were confiscated with any prior notice or warning. When asked about the seizure, BBFpro CEO Artem Bedarev told local media outlet RBC that the order came from Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office, adding: I was told verbally that the inspection would take at least six months and that the ATMs wouldn’t be returned until it’s finished. BBFpro had 22 machines spread throughout nine cities and Bedarev found it peculiar that each of them was collected almost simultaneously. Upon further inquiry, representatives of the Russian Bank remained rather tight-lipped but did caution that regulators are “conducting systematic work on uncovering and preventing illegal activities in the financial market.” The same representatives also insinuated that conversion of digital assets to fiat and the possibility of uncontrolled cross-border money transfers could be used to fund an array of illegal financial activities. BBFpro legal representative and attorney at the Center for Digital Rights, Sarkis Darbinyan said, There is no ban on the purchase of cryptocurrency in the current legislation. The company complies with all the procedures established by law, it pays taxes, and even identifies users despite the absence of such mandatory requirements.
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University students are clamoring for more courses about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. That's according to a nationwide survey of 675 students, commissioned by crypto exchange Coinbase and released today. According to the survey, 21 of the top 50 U.S. universities, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report, now offer a class on blockchain technology or cryptocurrency, and at least 11 colleges offer more than one. "Students today are really thinking deeply about economic issues and alternative economic futures," Bill Maurer, the dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of California Irvine, said. He continued: "Teaching about this kind of stuff now can be really powerful for students that are trying to find their own way and envision what kind of possible alternatives there might be to the prevailing economic system." And that interest in alternative economics isn't just relegated to the expected departments, such as finance or business or even computer science. Instead, the Coinbase survey found that there's high demand for crypto and blockchain courses across a diverse spectrum of students. While 34 percent of computer science and engineering majors indicated interest in learning about the nascent technology, 47 percent of social science majors are interested in the same, according to the survey. Speaking to the enthusiasm within the social sciences, or those related to the study of human society and social relationships, Maurer said, learning about financial systems prepares students in all programs for the job market today. "There's a huge demand out there, especially in the design space, for people that have the skills that we train anthropologists with, understanding the human side of technology," he said. Increasing interest Meanwhile, universities like Cornell, Stanford, and Georgetown are beefing up their blockchain research opportunities to accommodate swells in curiosity. And at New York University, David Yermack from the Stern School of Business said that to meet growing demand, his blockchain course will now be offered both semesters (when it was originally only taught during one), according to a blog post published by Coinbase outlining the results. During the first session of the course in 2014, only 35 students enrolled. But in the spring of 2018, 280 students had enrolled. Not only are students eager to learn, but an increasing number are also trying the technology out for themselves – 18 percent of respondents in the survey said they own some cryptocurrency. Dan Boneh, a computer science professor at Stanford, who is also seeing rising demand for blockchain and cryptocurrency-related classes, told CoinDesk: "It's a pretty exciting time. It feels like the beginning of something." Marketable skills The surge in interest in education surrounding the technology is, in part, a reaction to the broader job market. Benedikt Bunz, a doctoral student at Stanford, who spoke to Coinbase about the survey results, said cryptocurrency experts have an easy time finding jobs after graduation since such skills are in high demand. Case in point, Coinbase is ramping up its efforts to recruit college students and recent graduates throughout this academic year. "It's exciting to see widespread interest in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology taking off in the global academic community, including students attending the top universities in the world," Nat McGrath, vice president of people at Coinbase, told CoinDesk. "That's one of the reasons we're focused on building partnerships with underrepresented student groups across college campuses, and we look forward to expanding these efforts in the spring." Beyond the Ivy League schools included in the Coinbase survey, Howard University, a historically African-American college, and the women's liberal arts school Smith College are two notable additions to McGrath's recruitment plan. Given the high quality of students that are showing an inclination towards the field, Boneh said he's sure something groundbreaking will emerge over the next few years. He concluded: "I think [demand] has to do with a lot of talent going into the space. Very smart people are working on blockchain projects." coindesk |
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Silvio Micali is the founder of Algorand Blockchain. Is he right about this claim? As he explained, when you put incentives out there, people learn how to use those incentives for making money in ways that are nearly impossible to predict. He pointed to bitcoin as a prime example, saying its creator probably never imagined bitcoin's incentive structure would lead to industrial-scale mining pools. CoindeskSatoshi wrote this still in 2008: At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the
network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to
specialists with server farms of specialized hardware. A server farm would
only need to have one node on the network and the rest of the LAN connects with
that one node. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1458.msg16906#msg16906ribuck's description is spot on. Pool operators can modify their getwork to take one additional parameter, the address to send your share to. The easy way for the pool operator would be to wait until the next block is found and divy it up proportionally as: user's near-hits/total near-hits from everyone That would be easier and safer to start up. It also has the advantage that multiple hits from the same user can be combined into one transaction. A lot of your hits will usually be from the same people. The instant gratification way would be to pay a fixed amount for each near-hit immediately, and the operator takes the risk from randomness of having more or less near-hits before a block is found. Either way, the user who submits the hit that solves the block should get an extra amount off the top, like 10 BTC. New users wouldn't really even need the Bitcoin software. They could download a miner, create an account on mtgox or mybitcoin, enter their deposit address into the miner and point it at anyone's pool server. When the miner says it found something, a while later a few coins show up in their account. Miner writers better make sure they never false-positive near-hits. Users will depend on that to check if the pool operator is cheating them. If the miner wrongly says it found something, users will look in their account, not find anything, and get mad at the pool operator. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.msg25119#msg25119 |
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Os dados estão nesse formato "BALANCE","NAME","EMAIL","PHONE" 792,97999139,"Projeto Atlas"," projeto@atlasproj.com","+5511999999982" Ou seja, se você tinha conta com altos valores lá, muito cuidado. Podem tentar invadir você roubando seu email utilizando seu numero de telefone. Quem tem Bitcoin lá, provavelmente teria em outros locais também. https://www.facebook.com/notes/atlas-quantum/comunicado-importante/2196456297259749/Comunicado importante! ATLAS QUANTUM·DOMINGO, 26 DE AGOSTO DE 2018 Caros clientes, Ficamos cientes no início da noite de sábado que ocorreu um incidente de segurança envolvendo o vazamento de dados dos nossos clientes. Estamos conduzindo uma investigação junto a nossa assessoria de segurança da informação, para entender o incidente com mais detalhes e vamos colaborar com as devidas autoridades. Gostaríamos de salientar que não se trata de um roubo dos bitcoins em custódia ou violação das nossas contas nas exchanges. Porém, foram expostas informações da nossa base de clientes. No momento do incidente, tomamos medidas imediatas para proteger o banco de dados e que senhas e chaves privadas estão criptografadas. Estamos monitorando as contas afetadas e trabalhando para ter proteção adicional contra fraudes. Informamos que não enviaremos e-mails de alteração de senhas nas próximas horas. Pedimos paciência aos nossos clientes e comunidade. Vamos trazer novas informações a público assim que possível e estamos totalmente disponíveis 24h para responder dúvidas nos nossos canais de atendimento. Telefones: 11 3198-2205 (SP e Região) 4003-3765 (outras cidades) E-mail: suporte@atlasquantum.comAtenciosamente, Rodrigo Marques CEO - Atlas Quantum |
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CoindeskChinese mobile payment platforms WeChat Pay and Alipay are scrambling to keep up with regulators after recent announcements regarding initial coin offerings (ICOs) and cryptocurrencies. Both payment giants have said that they will work with the government agencies closely to monitor cryptocurrency transactions, according to news releases on August 24. As CoinDesk reported on Friday, five high-level regulatory agencies in China – including the People's Bank of China and the Banking Regulatory Commission – issued a warning against any cryptocurrency-related fundraising and trading activities. In a release published by Tencent, the parent company of WeChat Pay, not long after the news came out, the company said that it has come up with three main measures to regulate any "problematic" platforms related to ICOs and cryptocurrencies. Specifically, the tech giant said that it will prohibit users from using WeChat payments to make any virtual currency-related transactions. Moreover, it will conduct both real-time monitoring of daily transactions and risk assessment of any suspicious transactions. At the same time, in an exclusive interview with BJ News, a local news outlet based in Beijing, Alibaba Group affiliate Ant Financial, which owns Alipay, said that depending on the situation, it will restrict or permanently ban any personal Alipay accounts that are involved in cryptocurrency transactions.
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First Principle – Operate a Fair and Orderly Market The main intention is to provide protections and active monitoring of market activity in order to ensure a healthy market. So as to achieve that goal, Coinbase will take different actions such as operate a Market Operations team that will have the best practices to control and monitor market health, or administer a Market Surveillance function that has the same standards as important global exchanges. Another action that the company will take is related to adhere to business practices and procedures that are key to ensure reliability, performance and durability of the global market. Finally, they will be actively monitoring suspicious trading behaviours developing best-in-class market surveillance, compliance and fraud detection practices. Second Principle – Protect Customers with Better Infrastructure and Processes The second principle aims to protect customers with institutional-grade infrastructure and processes. Coinbase will be operating a wide range of institutional grade tools and teams that ensure the safe storage of customer data and information. Additionally, it will be complying with state and federal regulations, and it will be analysing and participating in new licensing and compliance activities. But there are two other actions that will be taken into account, such as protect the assets of its clients using leading cold-storage and custody technics and maintain institutional-grade Markets platform with deterministic connectivity. Third Principle – Enforce Transparent Market Rules and Governance Participants will have access to current market rules. That includes a market rulebook that has been specifically developed for the structure and dynamics of crypto assets. To do that, Coinbase will be providing public trading rules and policies that are applied to all the participants in the market and publish transparent trading fees and incentive programs. At the same time, it will be clearly communicating market capabilities such as order minimums/maximums, execution options, trading volumes and more. Other actions will be taken in order for all the participants to have transparent market rules. The exchange will be prohibiting and monitoring malicious trading practices, make audits with independent third-party companies, and follow a documented process for trading halts and the opening and closing of markets. Fourth Principle – Fair Access To Market Participants This is another important thing that Coinbase will take into account. All the participants will have the same rule set applied to them. So as to achieve that, all market access methods will be documented and publicly available, distributed market data will be fair and consistent, and capabilities and data available will have different options for customers to select their own needs. Additionally, it will be cooperating with other important industry participants to provide customers a safe and reliable ecosystem. Fifth Principle – Disclose in a Public Way Listing Practices and Market Rules Coinbase wants to add new assets and instruments in a clear and transparent way. There will be a strict and transparent listing process that will be considering different factors including: sophistication and security of technology, governance process, market demand, and regulatory considerations. Coinbase |
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It’s good news following aelf’s testnet — they achieved 14,968 transactions per second, an extremely promising result which shows the technology is developing well.
Zhuling Chen, aelf’s COO and co-founder, had good things to say about the results. He said, “We have hit 15,000 TPS, and this is just the beginning. Imagine where we will be in 6 or 12 months’ time!”
One of aelf’s investors is Alphabit Fund, and their CEO Liam Robertson is enthusiastic about the future, saying, “Aelf is currently among the largest holdings in Alphabit’s portfolio, and we believe that the team will continue to be successful in creating the blockchain infrastructure to enable the future of scalable commercial applications.”
Now, following the encouraging start, aelf intend to launch their mainnet in early 2019. It’s a step closer to their ultimate goal of building a system that will help bring blockchain into the physical world.
Right now blockchain technology generates a lot of hype and attention. It has the potential to change the way we do things in many ways, from more secure data storage to decentralized digital networks and transparent record keeping.
But one of the things holding blockchain back from mainstream adoption is the issue of scalability. Right now, most major blockchains struggle to support many transactions per second. That’s a problem, because the technology will need to handle much greater volumes if it’s to appeal to large businesses and organizations.
aelf want to change this, by making blockchain able to handle high volumes of transactions per second. As the testnet results show, they’re well on the way to achieving this goal.
But how do they do it? Their model is based around nodes — the individual computers that make up a blockchain network. In the current system, many blockchain networks are clogged with slow and inefficient nodes, which slows the whole network down and results in fewer transactions per second.
aelf plan to change this. In their system, nodes are made up of multiple computers instead of just one, and they can run in parallel. That means nodes can easily process multiple non-competing transactions at the same time, and verify multiple transactions at once.
This is what seriously increases the transactions per second in aelf’s model, and increases blockchain’s scalability. aelf’s model also takes the part of the node that stores data and splits it from the part that deals with computational processing.
This way, the node is split into two clusters, each with a different role. Every node still contains the complete ledger of transactions, but that ledger is shared between a number of computers.
This system allows multiple tasks to take place at the same time in one node. It’s a much quicker and more efficient way of processing transactions — for reference Ethereum’s blockchain can handle roughly 1000 times fewer transactions than aelf’s.
aelf’s early success is truly exciting for the blockchain space, and is proof that scalability issues don’t have to stand in the way of widespread adoption of the technology.
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Jonathan Cheesman
Partner @ Distributed GlobalAs 2018’s woes continue for crypto, the last month has seen Ethereum fall dramatically — 42% in a month. Ethereum’s meteoric rise at the start of 2017 brought a lot of focus on and investment into cryptoassets. It also provided a crowdfunding platform for new projects to access global capital via the ICO. While many, or even most, of the 2000 cryptoassets are likely to fail, until recently Ethereum was held as a safe haven. It’s recent decoupling from Bitcoin suggests that safe haven status is at risk. With the price pressure on, the market is clearly asking existential questions. For some time Ethereum has been “in development”, working on scaling updates and an evolution from proof of work to proof of stake. With some justification, Mr Market is asking: “Can these scaling improvements be achieved?” “How commercial will decentralized platforms be?” “What is being built and who is using it?” “How far ahead of the technology has the price got?” “Is this just a very expensive experiment?” Riccardo (in his characteristically salty manner) highlights this point and the comparison to the milestones that would be expected from a centralized corporation are easy to see: The crypto pendulum has likely swung into negative territory on Ethereum. The problems they are addressing — building a decentralized, secure & scalable smart contract protocol — is an extremely difficult innovation. Expectations were clearly too high and we are now gravitating back to a more reasonable place. The “no useful Dapp” criticism is also somewhat misguided. Consensys’s goal isn’t to only build Dapps to compete with centralized Apps. They are also building infrastructure across the web stack (storage, query tools, and wallets) that will ultimately enable scalable progress. That said, this is a necessary wake up call for the folks at Consensys and other projects. Once you open the door to market forces it cannot be closed and investors have expectations that need to be managed. The primary mismatch here is on timeline — this is an early stage technology and should be appreciated as such. The open source world blurs lines between, investors/participants/community but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a communication function where targets, progress and milestones are identified.
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