SINGAPORE – Zilliqa, a new, high-speed and secure blockchain platform based on the technology of sharding, has today announced that the company has added smart contract technology experts Dr. Ilya Sergey and Evan Cheng to their advisory board. Zilliqa has been focused on ‘scalability with security’ since its founding and will use the expertise of the … [Read more…]
Ink Protocol, a Y-Combinator backed decentralized reputation and payments system for P2P marketplaces, will join forces with Kleros to provide users with a fair and decentralised way to settle transaction disputes. The decentralized Ink protocol handles online marketplace payments and provides a trustless digital identity for sellers that exists across multiple marketplaces. Sellers build … [Read more…]
Cryptocurrency insiders know that whenever big money is used in any kind of crime, it’s more likely to involve dollars than Bitcoin. Whenever the U.S. Border Patrol discovers a new border tunnel used to smuggle drugs and illegal immigrants, the agents are more likely to find crates of cash than a mobile device with a … [Read more…]
Historically, cryptocurrency enthusiasts have shied away from regulators and even thinking that cryptocurrencies need to be regulated. Bitcoin’s early adopters are primarily Libertarians and smart individuals who dislike the abuses and inefficiencies of the mainstream financial systems. Some of them, like Dread Pirate Roberts and Roger Ver, have even run afoul of the law inside … [Read more…]
So Coinbase recently got caught up in a big mess where some members were getting overcharged for their cryptocurrency purchases made with a credit card. After some finger-pointing between Coinbase and Visa, Visa admitted that the messup was not Coinbase’s fault. Visa and Worldpay had messed up the processing of some transactions. Naturally, some exchange … [Read more…]
February 16, 2018 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) congratulates Mike Griffin on being confirmed as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering. Griffin will oversee Pentagon technology investments and set R&D priorities, as well as serve as chief technology officer. AIAA President Jim Maser made the following statement upon … [Read more…]
A few days ago, AML Bitcoin published a press release essentially saying that obsession with anonymity is the enemy of cryptocurrencies because it makes regulators nervous. It would be tough to call it an obsession when most early adopters got interested not because they intended to use it for criminal activity, but because they felt … [Read more…]
Dallas, TX and Bolton, MA – February 8, 2018— VMS Software, Inc. (VSI) and Swirlds, creators of the hashgraph distributed consensus platform, today announced an agreement whereby VMS Software will use Swirlds’ hashgraph technology to allow customers to quickly and securely implement and operate next generation distributed applications. VSI customers include the world’s most … [Read more…]
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin recently expressed frustration on the extreme focus on making a quick profit from an ICO instead of helping to improve a system that is still easily bogged down by Cryptokitties and EtherDelta. To be fair, scaling is still a problem for most blockchains and all the sniping over social media doesn’t … [Read more…]
What do you dislike most about hiring a vehicle when you go on holiday? Perhaps you dislike wasting your time at an agency that requires you to fill out paperwork before you can drive the vehicle, and they may not even have the model you requested when you booked it online. You may have just … [Read more…]