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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...

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

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topics September 3, 2018 Check the High-performance Bitmain Mining Rigs here

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interview July 19, 2019 Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee: Take Some Profit When the Market Is Going Up

headlines February 20, 2019 Chinese Online Celebrity Introducing Bitcoin Gets Over 500K Viewership

interview July 19, 2019 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

headlines February 20, 2019 Chinese Online Celebrity Introducing Bitcoin Gets Over 500K Viewership

topics September 3, 2018 Check the High-performance Bitmain Mining Rigs here

Blockchain

New Dapp on EOS Allows Users to Share Profits

New Dapp on EOS Allows Users to Share Profits July 3, 2019

Would you like to participate in a Dapp game where the players can decide the transaction price and choose different ways of profits, becoming the shareholder of the game? Decentralized applications (Dapps) are applications that run on a P2P network of computer...

Crypto Exchange Huobi Unveiled a Public Blockchain for Decentralized Financial Services

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Bitcoin

After Year of Hype, Bakkt Soft Launches With Closed Beta

After Year of Hype, Bakkt Soft Launches With Closed Beta July 23, 2019

The $182 million effort to bring physically delivered bitcoin futures to Wall Street has officially entered testing. Bakkt, an affiliate of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) parent company Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), soft launched today, July ...

Chinese Couple Separated due to Bitcoin Trading Dispute

IOST Partners Top Russian Crowdfunding Platform to Access Eastern Europe

China’s Interest in Facebook’s Libra Spikes on Hearing Libra Will Compete with Alipay, WeChat

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Press-release

Announcement: 1st IRIS Token Burn Complete

Announcement: 1st IRIS Token Burn Complete June 28, 2019

On June 28, 2019, the IRIS Foundation completed the 1st IRIS token burn under a one-year token burning plan with 19,189,722 IRIS burned. The current total supply is 2 billion IRIS. This burning involved two addresses, namely: The main...

Vollar Was Officially Listed on 8btc Market on June 20

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Mining

Bitcoin Mining in Iran Still Among the Most Profitable Despite Energy Price Increase

Bitcoin Mining in Iran Still Among the Most Profitable Despite Energy Price Increase July 22, 2019

Iran has come to a final decision about its tariffs for cryptocurrency mining, which is now awaiting final approval from the Cabinet, according to a report from Iranian economic daily Financial Tribune. Energy Minister Homayoon Ha’eri made the statement on ...

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Technologies

How Bytom’s BBFT Enable Faster Consensus – A Comparison between BBFT and FBFT/HotStuff

How Bytom’s BBFT Enable Faster Consensus – A Comparison between BBFT and FBFT/HotStuff July 12, 2019

Preface Bytom blockchain has recently released BaaS (Blockchain as a Service) platform Bystack, which includes the sidechain consensus algorithm BBFT (Bystack Byzantine Fault Tolerance). This article will elaborate on the problems that BBFT addres...

BBFT: a Hierarchical Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus Algorithm

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Reviews

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

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

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

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Mobile Wallet Bitkan Launches Bitcoin Cash OTC Trading Service

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OKCoin Refutes Investing Client Funds Into “Wealth Management Products” Claims

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CCTV2 Covers BTC, BCC, ETH, XRP, LTC and Scaling Solutions BU VS Segwit

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Interview

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...

Insight into Libra’s White Paper: extremely unprecedented and overwhelming

Insight into Libra’s White Paper: extremely unprecedented and overwhelming

On June 18, Facebook released a white paper on its blockchain project Libra....

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

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

With the advent of numerous blockchains over these years, the lack of interoper...

Bystack: Bytom’s Solution to Business Application and “The Blockchain Trilemma”

Bystack: Bytom’s Solution to Business Application and “The Blockchain Trilemma”

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