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Bitcoin Plays a Role in Humanitarian Assistance

Bitcoin Plays a Role in Humanitarian Assistance

North Korea has always been notorious for its human rights violations. Recently, the totalitarian...

Why I Am Still Not Voting for Segwit? An open letter from Jiangzhuoer

Why I Am Still Not Voting for Segwit? An open letter from Jiangzhuoer

Note:Translated from Jiang Zhuo’er’s original post in Chinese. Recently, as the discussion ...

Bitcoin Community is Withering—It has Lost the Excellent Circle

Bitcoin Community is Withering—It has Lost the Excellent Circle

Background Though China has long been puzzled by its brain drain in the form of elite emigrati...

headlines November 14, 2019 World Blockchain Conference Review: The World Is So New That Nothing Has Been Named Yet

World Blockchain Conference Review: The World Is So New That Nothing Has Been Named Yet

topics August 9, 2019 Beware of These Chinese Crypto Scams and Possible Exit Scams

interview October 18, 2019 World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Poolin Discusses Growth State of Mining and Bitcoin in China

topics August 9, 2019 Beware of These Chinese Crypto Scams and Possible Exit Scams

Beware of These Chinese Crypto Scams and Possible Exit Scams

interview October 18, 2019 World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Poolin Discusses Growth State of Mining and Bitcoin in China

headlines November 14, 2019 World Blockchain Conference Review: The World Is So New That Nothing Has Been Named Yet

interview October 18, 2019 World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Poolin Discusses Growth State of Mining and Bitcoin in China

World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Poolin Discusses Growth State of Mining and Bitcoin in China

headlines November 14, 2019 World Blockchain Conference Review: The World Is So New That Nothing Has Been Named Yet

topics August 9, 2019 Beware of These Chinese Crypto Scams and Possible Exit Scams

Blockchain

China’s Digital Yuan DCEP to Be Piloted in Shenzhen in 2020, Source Says

China’s Digital Yuan DCEP to Be Piloted in Shenzhen in 2020, Source Says December 9, 2019

China’s central bank-backed digital currency will be piloted in the country’s tech hub Shenzhen and Shanghai’s neighboring city Suzhou, according to local financial news outlet Caijing. The project is led by China’s central bank - the People’s Bank of C...

China-centric Approach to Blockchain Building Up for Present, Future

China Dominates Global Blockchain Patents and Startups

China’s Hainan Province Unveils $142M Blockchain Subsidy Fund

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Bitcoin

Stablecoins Might be the Bitter Foe of DCEP

Stablecoins Might be the Bitter Foe of DCEP December 6, 2019

For state-run digital currencies like DCEP, the biggest competitor may not be the digital currency issued by multinational enterprises such as Libra but the digital assets outside the supervision such as stablecoin. All kinds of altcoins, big or small, have li...

China-based IDAX Crypto Exchange Vanishes with $20 Billion as Capital Strand Breaks

Does Bitcoin Need Accounts? One Developer Thinks So, and He Figured Out How

China’s Hainan Expects to be Crypto Asset Trading Pilot, Says Deputy Governor of Hainan Province

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Press-release

MOV Trading Logic is Open for Testing

MOV Trading Logic is Open for Testing November 26, 2019

On November 25, Bytom’s team opens source parts of MOV’s trading logic protocol, which will be open to developers for testing. MOV is the decentralized cross chain value exchange protocol based on Bystack’s main chain & side chain structure. As ...

RRMine Organized a CEO Talk about Bitcoin Halving and Cloud Mining

2019 Bytom Global Developer Conference is Successfully Held in San Francisco

IRIS Hub Bug Bounty II Program for New Version Release

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Mining

Bitmain Launches Three Strategies to Lower the Entry Barrier for Miner Buyers

Bitmain Launches Three Strategies to Lower the Entry Barrier for Miner Buyers December 9, 2019

Bitmain’s Jihan Wu launches three strategies of "installment payment", "option hedging" and "joint mining" to lower the threshold for buyers. Speaking at annual customer appreciation meeting, Jihan Wu, CEO of Chinese crypto miner manufacturer Bitmain are ...

More Chinese Bitcoin Miners Turn to Whatsminer for High-Powered Machines

Chinese Bitcoin Miner Maker Ebang Is Planning a U.S. IPO Following Canaan and Bitmain

Bitcoin Mining in North America: A New Gold Rush in the New World

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Technologies

Bitcoin Core 0.19.0 Released: Here’s What’s New

Bitcoin Core 0.19.0 Released: Here’s What’s New November 24, 2019

Today, November 24, 2019, marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0.19.0, the 19th major release of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost 11 years ago and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today. (Tho...

BIP 324: A Message Transport Protocol That Could Protect Bitcoin Peers

The Whitepaper of MOV – A Next-Gen Decentralized Cross-chain Layer 2 Value Exchange Protocol

‘Get Ready for Ethereum 2.0,’ Says Vitalik as DAOs Made Great Progress

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Reviews

Is Libra a Paper Tiger?

Of course, Libra is not a paper tiger. Otherwise it won’...

How to Build a Stablecoin to Compete with Libra

In my Libra project analysis report (A Business Ana...

Crypto Currency Economics Study – Survey Paper [2nd Full DRAFT]

Editor's note: the thesis is co-written by Charlie (kai) T...

Charlie (kai) Tsai

Worldview of Bystack (II): The Island Effect in Blockchain

This article is translated from “Bystack世界观（二）：区块...

Worldview of Bystack (I): The Three Dimensions of Asset

This article is translated from “Bystack世界观（一）：资产...

Bitcoin Market Rejects China’s Mining Ban Fear

Recent news that China is planning to eliminate the crypto...

Olusegun Ogundeji

Linking Crypto to Growing Non-Cash Transactions in China and India

Global non-cash transactions grew by 10% between 2015 and 2...

Olusegun Ogundeji

Top 20 Richest Celebrity Supporters of Cryptocurrency

Infographic made by Tom Alford Whilst cryptocurrency ...

Slowmist: 3,619 ETH-based tokens are affected by fake deposit vulnerability

On 11 July, Slowmist disclose full detail of "fake deposi...

Ant Financial: 3 Dos and 3 Dont’s in Blockchain Development

8 July Shanghai- "The 5th Financial Technology Summit"...

Shanghai Closes All Token Trading and Executives Are Asked to Stay in Place

Cryptocurrency exchanges in Shanghai this week are asked t...

Mobile Wallet Bitkan Launches Bitcoin Cash OTC Trading Service

Bitcoin-focused data and trading services provider Bitkan ...

Interview

World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Poolin Discusses Growth State of Mining and Bitcoin in China

World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Poolin Discusses Growth State of Mining and Bitcoin in China

Poolin, just over a year old and already trending as a top two mining pool, is ...

MOV AMA – New Team, New Journey

MOV AMA – New Team, New Journey

On October 9th evening, Bytom Founder Chang Jia, Bytom CEO Lang Yu a...

Bitcoin Industry Artificially-Crippled for Years, Brought Competing Blockchains

Bitcoin Industry Artificially-Crippled for Years, Brought Competing Blockchains

In this interview, Jimmy Nguyen, the founding president of the Bitcoin Asso...

Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee: Take Some Profit When the Market Is Going Up

Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee: Take Some Profit When the Market Is Going Up

Despite the latest crypto bull run pushed by the Bitcoin rally since this Apr...

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