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Top Highlights on the Crypto Derivatives Markets in 2020 with FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried

Mar 3, 2020

According to a recent interview with the CEO of FTX and Alameda Research Sam Bankman-Fried, there is a significant difference between Asia-based/global exchanges and US exchanges. Global Coin Research has highlighted succinctly the main points Sam made in the interview, al...

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How do Randomness Beacons based on Threshold Signatures work?

Feb 28, 2020

Back in 2015 DFinity made the community extremely excited with their design of a randomness beacon that was leveraging BLS threshold signatures to produce a randomness output that is both unbiasable and unpredictable. As of 2020 building an unbiasable and unpredictable randomness beaco...

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EOS Community Reduces Inflation from 5% to 1%, Burns 34M EOS

Feb 26, 2020

The inflation rate on the EOS network has been reduced to just 1% after the EOS community proposed and approved the change in a historic vote. While Brendan Blumer, the CEO of EOS parent company Block.one, celebrated the move as a testament to the network's governance, many criticiz...

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1inch.exchange Says Fulcrum Was Aware of Vulnerabilities 1 Month Before Attack

Feb 22, 2020

A decentralized exchange aggregator has alleged that Fulcrum, the company behind the bZx exchange, has been aware of vulnerabilities in its code at least a month before it suffered two consecutive hacks that drained $2.5 million from its funds. bZx, an Ethereum-based lending project from Fu...

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

Nov 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. (Though due to an issue that came ...

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

Nov 14, 2019

More than 10 years living in the world of Bitcoin has shown us that there is a long road ahead for Bitcoin developers, and BIP 324, created in March 2019, could be the next important step on that road. The BIP was authored by Switzerland-based Bitcoin developer and cofounder of Shi...

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

Sep 27, 2019

Bytom blockchain is a blockchain project dedicated to bridging the atomic world and the byte world. Since its mainnet launch in April 2018, Bytom has made tremendous progress in implementing its application in real life, especially when it came to 2019. This May, Bytom has released the B...

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

Sep 19, 2019

Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, stated that ETF 2.0 is coming soon as the specification of ETF 2.0 has been written. At the Global Blockchain Summit 2019 ongoing in Shanghai, the founder of Ethereum addresses a speech titled “Developments in the blockchain space tha...

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Bystack: Seeking Killer Assets (I)

Aug 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 blockchain pioneers. Like sword of D...

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

Jul 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 addresses and analyze the major diff...