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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

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headlines August 30, 2019 10 Years: Bitcoin Legend Road

interview August 31, 2019 Bitcoin Industry Artificially-Crippled for Years, Brought Competing Blockchains

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headlines August 30, 2019 10 Years: Bitcoin Legend Road

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Blockchain

Mixed Views as MasterCard Goes Blockchain

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It is not the first time a major financial corporation will enter the blockchain space in a similar fashion but is Mastercard's foray into the space going to be anything different? The payment service provider announced a strategic partnership with R3 enterprise blo...

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Bitcoin

Bogus Exchange Swindles Crypto Investors by Impersonating Staff of Major Chinese Crypto Exchange

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Impersonating a customer service of major Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges, a bogus crypto exchange swindled investors of millions of Chinese yuan. Early this year, a large number of crypto investors reportedly that they had received calls claiming themselves as ...

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Press-release

2019 Bytom Global Developer Conference is Successfully Held in San Francisco

2019 Bytom Global Developer Conference is Successfully Held in San Francisco August 29, 2019

August 25th, San Francisco – 2019 Bytom DevCon was successfully held in Fort Mason, San Francisco, on August 24th. More than 50 teams from the U.S., Russia, India, Belgium, Brazil, Nigeria and China registered for 2019 dev challenge and six winning ...

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Mining

Bitmain’s New Antminer 17 Miners Snapped up in Minutes, Bitcoin Hashrate Go Higher?

Bitmain’s New Antminer 17 Miners Snapped up in Minutes, Bitcoin Hashrate Go Higher? September 10, 2019

Crypto mining giant Bitmain has launched two new Antminer 17 miners to the eager market on September 9. A day before the announcement, data from statistics and wallet provider Blockchain showed that Bitcoin hashrate has topped 94 EH/s to hit 100 EH/s. Bit...

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Technologies

Bystack: Seeking Killer Assets (I)

Bystack: Seeking Killer Assets (I) August 30, 2019

This article is translated from “Bystack：寻找杀手级“资产”（上）” written by Qianli Ma, COO of Bytom, a Chinese star blockchain project aiming to connect the atomic world and the crypto world. "Seeking killer apps", a widespread slogan among blockcha...

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Reviews

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Interview

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Cosmos AMA on 8btc: No Blockchain Is an Island, To Be “Internet of Blockchains”

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