Openbazaar Sees a Variety of New Vendors After Privacy Enhancements https://news.bitcoin.com/openbazaar-variety-new-vendors-after-privacy-enhancements/This past September the cryptocurrency-based decentralized marketplace, Openbazaar, launched its 2.0 platform with a slew of new features. Now a couple of months later, the marketplace seems to be seeing some significant growth as vendors from Darknet markets are starting to flock to the protocol’s benefits. Privacy Enhancements Give Openbazaar a Boost Openbazaar Sees a Variety of New Vendors After Privacy EnhancementsThis week news.Bitcoin.com took a tour through the search listings held on the Openbazaar 2.0 platform. The new version has three search engines including OB1, Duo, and Raw Flood which give users more depth while searching for products using Openbazaar. In addition to the improved search features, the platform now utilizes the Tor browser, has a native bitcoin wallet, Shapeshift integration, and offline stores. Just by visiting Openbazaar a user can see that these attributes have increased the amount of vendors and users exponentially, as there are more products to peruse than a just a few months ago........ |
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Parity Launches Support Website In Wake of Exploit https://www.coindesk.com/ether-frozon-parity-ethereum-launches-support-website/News • Ethereum • Technology News 168 8 2 U.K.-based startup Parity Technologies is opening lines of communication with users a day after a code vulnerability locked hundreds out of their ethereum wallets. Issued in an alert Wednesday, the provider of software for the world's second-largest blockchain explained what went wrong and launched a website where users can check their addresses to see if their funds were affected. Parity also posted an email address for users to contact the company. As of Wednesday afternoon, the wallet-checking website showed that 584 wallets and 573 people have been affected by the exploit. However, it's not clear if this is a final number or if it's simply the latest one that the company has tallied. Parity was not immediately available for comment. The security alert goes on to describe how a flaw in the company's code was exploited following a patch in July that fixed a prior vulnerability: "Unfortunately, that code contained another vulnerability which was undiscovered at the time – it was possible to turn the Parity Wallet library contract into a regular multi-sig wallet and become an owner of it by calling the initWallet function." The person who discovered the fault did so and then deleted the new wallet, Parity said, in statements that showcase the company's "current understanding" of the incident. As CoinDesk previously reported, the ethereum community is now seeking to understand how best to respond to the incident, given that a hard fork of the software may be necessary. No other known solutions have been put forward to restore the frozen ether to their owners, though it's possible one could be forthcoming. According to informal estimates, as much as $150 million worth of cryptocurrency may be currently inaccessible. |
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Waves Set To Become Fastest Decentralized Blockchain Platform Globally https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2017/11/08/waves-set-to-become-fastest-decentralized-blockchain-platform-globally/#3b469d9238b6Waves, a global public blockchain platform founded last year that completed its Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in June 2016 raising over $16 million (c.30,000 bitcoin (BTC)), is implementing new technology to enable the network to process “thousands of transactions” per minute and become the fastest decentralized blockchain platform in the world. The innovation is touted as bringing blockchain technology to the “next level of evolution”, enabling the platform that was the brainchild of a Moscow-based physicist to compete with mainstream payment processors and to achieve mass-market adoption. “Waves-NG”, a next-generation technology and consensus algorithm designed and based on the Bitcoin-NG proposal made by Cornell Computer Science academics Emin Gün Sirer and Ittay Eyal............ Emin Gün SirerVerified account @el33th4xor Emin Gün Sirer Retweeted wavesplatform I'm seeing Waves-NG achieve 4000 tx/sec. Would need to understand the network better for full context, but that's 1000X faster than Bitcoin, on-chain. https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/928402425442197506 |
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You've been asking and we've heard. Want to know more about what we're doing moving forward? Here's your chance. Live Power Ledger founders AMA Tuesday 14 Nov 9PM Perth/1PM UTC ... Join our Telegram channel here: http://bit.ly/2znSR6z https://twitter.com/PowerLedger_io/status/928462156412186625https://t.me/powerledgerThe Innovators podcast: Jemma Green brings power to the people Cryptocurrency. Blockchain. Peer-to-peer trading. If there were an energy start-up award for “nowness”, Perth-based PowerLedger would have to be a contender. A software platform that allows users to trade surplus renewable energy with each other and back to retailers, PowerLedger is part of what its founders like to call “a democratisation of power”. But one of the founders behind the company, Dr Jemma Green, has more than one story to tell. A former merchant banker in London turned PhD graduate, she’s most recently been in the news for her elevation from independent councillor to interim Lord Mayor for the City of Perth.... https://arena.gov.au/blog/the-innovators-podcast-jemma-green/ |
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Blockchain in Fintech – “Future of money” series – Shanghai http://www.swissnexchina.org/en/event/future-of-moneyseries-coming-to-china/swissnex China launches the “Future of Money” Fintech series in China. Switzerland & China are leading countries in the Fintech industry. Our aim is to bring together top experts from both countries and offer an intellectual exchange platform between the participants. If you are interested to know more about this “Blockchain in Fintech” event and want to create a possible new partnership, then this is what we offer: Learn about the Swiss financial savoir-faire and new cutting-edge technologies of China and Switzerland with a top panel. Connect with founders and key players in the Fin-tech industry and become part of a Swiss-China platform for financial innovations and technological collaboration between Switzerland and China. Top Moderator Zennon Kapron – Director, Kapron ASIA Zennon is a recognized thought leader on Fintech in Asia and a regular speaker at financial conferences globally including : Money 20/20, TradeTech, Sibos, SIFMA, Innovate Finance, Future of Fintech in Asia, APFIC and many others. He has testified in front of the U.S. Congress on matters of China Fintech and is regularly quoted in the press and television appearances including CNBC, Bloomberg, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times to name a few. Zennon is the author of ‘Chomping at the Bitcoin: The Past, Present, and Future of Bitcoin in China’ published by Penguin as well as countless reports and commentaries on the state of financial technology in Asia. Top Speakers Da Hongfei – Founder of NEO Founder of NEO, CEO of Onchain. Key opinion leader of the Chinese blockchain industry, serial entrepreneur, a Bachelor of Arts graduate capable of the coding virus with assembly language. Da Hongfei is blockchain advisor to a handful of banks, brokers, and clearinghouses. He has keen insights on the underpinning technologies, various application scenarios, and the industry structure. Da Hongfei came across Bitcoin in 2011, and worked fulltime in the industry since 2013. In 2014, he founded NEO, a blockchain to register, transfer, and exchange digital assets, and led the startup to become the benchmark in the Chinese blockchain community. Manuel Stagars – Founder of Blockchain & Us Born and raised in Zurich/Switzerland, Manuel Stagars is an author, film director, economist, and serial entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in consulting and startups in Switzerland, the United States, Japan, and Singapore. His documentary films focus on technological innovations and their potential to improve the lives of people. Manuel has a degree in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), holds several financial certifications (CFA, CAIA, ERP) and published books and scientific articles on startups, marketplace lending, impact investing, data quality, and Open Data. He has lived in eight countries and has professional networks all around the world. Rong Chen – Cofounder of Elastos Foundation Rong Chen graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 1982. He received MS degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1987. Rong was a Microsoft veteran of 1992-2000. He collaborated in the development of the Microsoft Research OS, IE3 ActiveX, Ole Automation, DCOM, .NET among other projects. Rong founded his own company Kortide Corp. in 2000 following a dream to invent his own operating system: Elastos. After 17 years, Rong believes that a smart-web powered by the blockchain technology is the future for Elastos to create the scarcity of digital contents. He established the Elastos Foundation with his partners in June of 2017. Dr. Thomas Bocek – Head of P2P and distributed systems at the CSG of the University of Zurich Dr. Thomas Bocek is the head of P2P and distributed systems at the Communication Systems Group CSG of the University of Zurich since 2013. Before that, Thomas worked as a software engineer and technical project manager in the financial sector. Thomas is mainly interested in communication systems and networks, especially focusing on peer-to-peer, distributed systems, including Bitcoins and blockchains. Thomas has published several papers on these topics and his PhD topic has a strong focus on Peer-to-Peer and distributed systems. |
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Dr. Julie Maupin, IOTA Foundation | Going the Last Mile Speaker’s Bio: Dr. Julie Maupin, JD/MA, B.Sc., is a leading expert on the legal, regulatory, and economic policy dimensions of blockchains and other distributed ledger technologies. A dual-trained lawyer and economist, her expertise spans cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, prediction markets, data analytics and artificial intelligence in IoT environments. She is a Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany where she investigates effective governance models and regulatory approaches to emergent technologies. She is also an advisor to IOTA, and holds external appointments with the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies. Julie is a sought-after public speaker and frequent consultant to governments, international organizations, businesses, and NGOs. She sits on the Fintech Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Finance and serves as a resource person for the UN Internet Governance Forum. As a member of the T20 Digital Economy Experts Task Force, Julie’s blockchain-related recommendations to the G20 were recognized as one of the top 20 policy proposals for the G20 in 2017. Prior to turning her attention to blockchain, Julie was already an established expert in international investment, trade, monetary and financial law, cross-border arbitration, regional integration and economic development, and public/private regulatory networks. She holds a Ph.D. in international studies (IHEID, Geneva), a Juris Doctor and M.A. Economics (Yale) and a B.Sc. Economics, Minor in Psychology (Univ. of Washington). http://video.genyoutube.net/QP_1ezXSlPE |
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Cofound.it Playoffs: A Night to Celebrate and Support Your Favourite Seed Teams https://blog.cofound.it/cofound-it-playoffs-a-night-to-celebrate-and-support-your-favourite-seed-teams-e92c3c5d6dc0Our mission at Cofound.it is clear — select and train the best teams and blockchain startups and involve our community in the process. And we have come up with an amazing new way to do that! On November 30, 2017 Cofound.it is going to host an extraordinary event here in Ljubljana, Cofound.it Playoffs. Our top Seed programme teams will participate in a “live” crowdsale surrounded by Cofound.it Priority Pass™ members and other supporters. No one has ever done anything like this, or to this scale. This event really is a celebration of the Cofound.it community, because only by connecting the best startups with passionate early adopters are we able to pull something like this off!..... |
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Aion and Metaverse partner on cross-chain digital assets and oracles https://medium.com/@mvs_org/aion-and-metaverse-partner-on-cross-chain-digital-assets-and-oracles-10552cd4c00cWe are excited to announce an upcoming partnership between Aion, a multi-tier blockchain ecosystem designed to address the unsolved problems of scalability, privacy and interoperability in blockchain networks, and Metaverse a blockchain platform building a web of digital assets and establishing an open ecosystem in which digital value can be circulated freely. This partnership will focus on exploring the ability to transact native digital assets on the Metaverse protocol across other blockchains and providing access to new user bases, industry or geography based assets and the unique attributes of other blockchains. In addition, we will be investigating connecting and leveraging protocol specific oracles across networks, exponential increasing the quality and accessibility to trusted oracles. “Aion is not only building a network to connect disparate blockchains together, but also create the infrastructure to launch powerful decentralized applications that can operate across the Aion connected network; which is why we are fully convinced that the alliance with Aion will contribute to the establishment of the Metaverse ecosystem by engaging more application development on the Metaverse blockchain.” Eric Gu, CEO, Metaverse |
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Blockchain.ONE will be listed on Dublin Stock Exchange hopefully before end of year (self.ICONOMI) submitted 5 hours ago by Carzas Ok, so in this wallet drama I got some positive news to share when I asked Columbus about Blockchain.ONE a couple of days ago. My questions was: Hi Columbus, A couple of questions regarding Blockchain.ONE and the listing-procedure. Can you please share information if you aim to list Blockchain.ONE as a ETF or a mutual fund? When first announced, it was said that the aim was to list it within 2-3 months, I see that the information is modified to "soon", do you have any updated timeline? And the answer from Columbus: Dear ****, Blockchain.ONE is going to be an registered Cayman fund with structured instrument on funds assets. The instrument will be listed on Dublin Stock Exchange. Our agents are finalizing documents with Irish regulator, hopefully we are still on track for this year. https://www.reddit.com/r/ICONOMI/comments/7bkjo7/blockchainone_will_be_listed_on_dublin_stock/ |
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Factom Inc.’s Growth Triggers Leadership Team Expansion https://www.factom.com/blog/factom-growth-triggers-leadership-team-expansionAustin, TX (November 07, 2017) - Factom, Inc., a blockchain technology company based in Austin, Texas, announces the expansion of its leadership team driven by the company’s continued growth. Founder and Factom visionary, Paul Snow, has assumed the role of CEO for Factom. Snow plans to continue Factom’s leadership in the enterprise software space as well as to serve blockchain companies during this unprecedented time of growth. Factom Co-Founder, Peter Kirby, continues as President, leading company operations, guiding revenue growth and product roadmaps. “We believe that Factom has a huge role to play in the evolving blockchain ecosystem,” said Snow. “Two billion dollars has been invested in blockchain companies in the last year, and Factom technology is uniquely situated to solve many of the complex problems these companies face. Factom continues to build practical, efficient software that makes it simple to solve complex blockchain problems.”....... https://www.cryptoninjas.net/2017/11/08/founder-factom-visionary-paul-snow-assumes-role-ceo/ |
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Vitalik Buterin's response to Parity issue Vitalik ButerinVerified account @VitalikButerin I am deliberately refraining from comment on wallet issues, except to express strong support for those working hard on writing simpler, safer wallet contracts or auditing and formally verifying security of existing ones. https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/928172344631115776 |
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Komodo Platform SWOT Analysis by AbsolutionX https://medium.com/@absolutecrypto99/komodo-platform-swot-analysis-77c954b5163dI have been following the Komodo Platform (KMD) for quite some time now, so much that I decided perform a SWOT analysis on the project. First of all, I wanted to give a shout out to the founder at utrum.io who first started this analysis and let me take it over in his stead. The KMD project is trying to accomplish A LOT in the cryptospace, and with that said I apologize for the length of this article. There was just so much to cover that I had to make it this long. For those readers who don’t have the time to read the entire article I’ve included a graph below that summarizes the analysis at a high level. I suggest those readers take a look at it and then go to the conclusion at the bottom, or any other section they are interested in reading more about............ |
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Tron will launch a new official website soon! Schedule of TRON’s Website Version: 2.1 Time: Nov. 6-Nov. 15 1. Start to use the primary domain name: Tron.network, and the secondary domain name: bochang.network 2. Display the most concerned core TRON data in real time Version: 2.2 Time: Nov. 16-Nov. 22 1. Add e-mail subscription function to push weekly reports to subscribers 2. Add a recruitment module to facilitate the selection of project members Version: 2.3 Time: Nov. 23-Nov. 29 1. Improve blog functions to update information at any time 2. Launch TRON toolkits Version: 2.4 Time: Nov. 30-Dec. 6 1. Release Talk Box to enable online interaction among TRON fans 2. Present development history and project experience https://medium.com/@tronlabs/tron-will-launch-new-official-website-soon-58b61d1cc02c |
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