Technology

The new tools, protocols and infrastructure shaping crypto today.

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8 min read
Short on capital and suspicious of ICOs, Ethereum developers are pinning their hopes on Moloch, which launched today. Will this radical experiment in decentralized funding work?
Moloch, a new breed of “Decentralized Autonomous Organization,” or DAO, that today swings onto the Ethereum mainnet, is hoping to dramatically speed up Ethereum dapp development. At the same t...
Technology
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3 min read
Courteney Cox and three-time Golden Globe winner Renée Zellweger are working with Tron to raise money to fight ALS.
Tron, the blockchain-based platform built for sharing digital content, has struggled to attract developers to build on-ramps for the millions of people who are supposedly waiting to use the pl...
Technology
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4 min read
The attacks range from making copies of the hardware in a factory to zapping it with electricity.
Hacks are abundant in the crypto sector. Crypto exchanges were hacked by nearly $1 billion in 2018—leading many to advocate that people should never entrust their funds to centralized exchange...
Reviews
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5 min read
Bitcoin is slow and expensive. This Lightning Network app is a first step to solving the problem.
Satoshi once said Bitcoin could scale to VISA-levels. Yet here we are, meandering along at seven transactions-per-second, with fees that temporarily jumped to $37 in December, 2017, when the n...
Technology
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9 min read
Oranges, babies, democracy, frozen people. We take a whirlwind tour of all things on the blockchain that probably shouldn’t be.
When you put a thing “on the blockchain,” you’re not actually putting it “on the blockchain.” Nothing is “on the blockchain.” The “blockchain” doesn’t exist. Instead, what you’re really doing ...
Technology
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2 min read
Without the power of Justin Sun’s marketing, will it succeed in raising millions?
Hot on the heels of its wildly successful, $7 million BitTorrent ICO (raised in 14 minutes), Binance Launchpad is readying it’s next big thing: An ICO of decentralized infrastructure provider ...
Technology
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2 min read
SatoshiPay secures crucial deal with Europe’s largest publisher in a move to rescue the dwindling fortunes of online journalism.
It’s been a tough month for journos. Last week, around 1,000 jobs were cut between Gannett, BuzzFeed, and Verizon-owned HuffPost. Most online journalism is available to read for free, which do...
Technology
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5 min read
Andreas Kalteis believes his nerves of steel are enough to launch an ICO in 2019.
There’s nothing like dangling from a building to draw attention to yourself, and 32-year-old Andreas Kalteis knows a thing or two about defying gravity. In his heyday, he was one of Austria’s ...
Technology
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3 min read
Tron’s BitTorrent token sale harks back to the Golden Age of the ICO. But there’s a missing face.
On Monday, crypto platform Tron completed the token sale for its upcoming “BitTorrent Speed” platform, flogging 50 billion “BitTorrent tokens” ($7.1 million) to investors in under 15 minutes, ...
Technology
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4 min read
Vlad Zamfir took to Twitter to unveil what he thought was a game-changing theory of justice. Crypto Twitter, and a prominent crypto lawyer, shot him down.
“I am prepared to die on this hill,” Ethereum lead researcher Vlad Zamfir said of his new, controversial theory of Blockchain Justice, outlined Saturday in a Medium post. And he did die on tha...
Blockchain
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2 min read
NOW they’ve gone and put a ROOMBA on the BLOCKCHAIN. Whatever next? A CAT on the blockchain? Oh, wait.
[Comment from Filament added at 18:10] Penniless Roomba docking stations, we have good news. Blockchain “enterprise solutions” firm Filament has graciously devised a way for Roombas—you know, ...
Technology
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2 min read
The market’s trading volumes have exceeded $20 billion in just over a month.
Today traders on Huobi’s Derivative Market will for the first time be able to buy Litecoin futures. The announcement allows traders to long or short the cryptocurrency which historically, was ...
Technology
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4 min read
Until now proof had been scant, but the hacker has released hundreds of images to allegedly back up the theft.
A darknet hacker claiming to have stolen thousands of KYC documents—for sale at $1-$10 a pop—appears to have offered evidence, in direct response to a Decrypt article that cast doubt on the cl...
Technology
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8 min read
Ex-millionaire software tycoon John McAfee makes Trump look like a parish priest. Meet the “team” who could make him president.
John McAfee is yet again in exile. He has just released a video of himself, moments ago, steaming away from a port unknown, one step ahead of the law. He says this is no surprise, given his ...
Technology
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4 min read
While news outlets scramble to cover hacks of Binance, Bittrex, and Bitfinex, we take a harder look at these alleged security breaches.
Nobody’s data is safe. Off the back of the largest ever data dump Collection #1, CCN has reported that there is another data breach brimming with 100,000 know-your-customer documents from cryp...
Ethereum
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4 min read
Ethereum’s naming strategy is a mess, so it is asking the community for help.
We now know the name of the so-called “fix” to the Ethereum network’s recently pulled “Constantinople” upgrade. Mining clients Geth and Parity have respectively opted for “St. Petersburg” and ...
Technology
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2 min read
There are hundreds of them, but crypto exchange Huobi wants to make another.
Ever FOMO’d into making a digital token based off a real-world currency? Me neither. But it appears that Huobi has caved into the craving. Stablecoins—cryptocurrencies designed to peg to a fia...
Technology
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2 min read
While Ethereum stalls, EOS has become a hub for decentralized exchanges says new report.
Who actually uses decentralized exchanges to trade these days? The answer is, hardly anyone, according to a new report by TokenInsight, an independent blockchain research company. While decent...
Cryptocurrency
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4 min read
On its fifth birthday, we take a celebratory skip through the highlights of the world’s 15th biggest cryptocurrency.
Dash hasn’t been hanging around. In the last five years, it has lived up to its namesake and achieved everything from developing masternodes to humanitarian efforts and even a respectable mark...
Technology
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5 min read
The launch of Grin has given crypto miners reason to be cheerful. But it won’t last long.
A price drop of 98 percent could spell the end for any coin. But in Grin’s case, it was just the beginning. After launching on Wednesday, it started trading at $261 only to fall to $5.15 the n...

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Technology

The new tools, protocols and infrastructure shaping crypto today.

Short on capital and suspicious of ICOs, Ethereum developers are pinning their hopes on Moloch, which launched today. Will this radical experiment in decentralized funding work?

Courteney Cox and three-time Golden Globe winner Renée Zellweger are working with Tron to raise money to fight ALS.

The attacks range from making copies of the hardware in a factory to zapping it with electricity.

Bitcoin is slow and expensive. This Lightning Network app is a first step to solving the problem.

Oranges, babies, democracy, frozen people. We take a whirlwind tour of all things on the blockchain that probably shouldn’t be.

Without the power of Justin Sun’s marketing, will it succeed in raising millions?

SatoshiPay secures crucial deal with Europe’s largest publisher in a move to rescue the dwindling fortunes of online journalism.

Andreas Kalteis believes his nerves of steel are enough to launch an ICO in 2019.

Tron’s BitTorrent token sale harks back to the Golden Age of the ICO. But there’s a missing face.

Vlad Zamfir took to Twitter to unveil what he thought was a game-changing theory of justice. Crypto Twitter, and a prominent crypto lawyer, shot him down.

NOW they’ve gone and put a ROOMBA on the BLOCKCHAIN. Whatever next? A CAT on the blockchain? Oh, wait.

The market’s trading volumes have exceeded $20 billion in just over a month.

Until now proof had been scant, but the hacker has released hundreds of images to allegedly back up the theft.

Ex-millionaire software tycoon John McAfee makes Trump look like a parish priest. Meet the “team” who could make him president.

While news outlets scramble to cover hacks of Binance, Bittrex, and Bitfinex, we take a harder look at these alleged security breaches.

Ethereum’s naming strategy is a mess, so it is asking the community for help.

There are hundreds of them, but crypto exchange Huobi wants to make another.

While Ethereum stalls, EOS has become a hub for decentralized exchanges says new report.

On its fifth birthday, we take a celebratory skip through the highlights of the world’s 15th biggest cryptocurrency.

The launch of Grin has given crypto miners reason to be cheerful. But it won’t last long.