(Blockchain eNewspaper)
News
World news
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Brazil may write new laws with data stored on the Ethereum blockchain
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Facebook Investor and PayPal Co-founder Peter Thiel Bets Big on Bitcoin – and Wins
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Viant, GSK partner for blockchain in pharmaceuticals
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China’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange Heads to Japan and South Korea With Major Bank Deal
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Popular Chrome extension is secretly mining cryptocurrency.
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Ripple Gateways Can Freeze Users’ Funds at Any Time
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Microsoft Halts Bitcoin Transactions Because It's An "Unstable Currency"
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Royal Bank of Canada highlights the positive developments of Segregated Witness and Lightning Network for Bitcoin scalability
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Litecoin plans to reduce actual min fee to 0.0001 LTC/kb ($0.03/kb). Charliee Lee proposes Litecoin with a soft fork that will let miners signal their min accepted fee in the block header. This will let a fee market develop without having us decide what the min fee is. Will also make it easier for users to estimate fees.
Ethereum News
- Ethereum updates - Q4 Round Up, scalability R&D subsidy programs, website redesigning
- Ethereum Yellow Paper is now placed under the Creative Commons Free Culture License CC-BY-SA.
- If Ethereum suddenly dies (goes to 0$ ) Will all of the tokens built on the Ethereum platform also die? A discussion at reddit
- There are still >200 Million $ unclaimed funds in the DAO refund contracts. Re-check if you still have a balance in one of them!
- Everything you need to know about ConsenSys hubs and spokes.
Technology
Developer's Update
- Call-out assurance contracts by Vitalik Buterin
- ERC809: Renting Standard for Rival, Non-Fungible Tokens
- EIP 777 - A New Advanced Token Standard
Good Reads on Blockchain
- 18 Blockchain Predictions for 2018 by Andrew Keys, ConsenSys
Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews
- When New Tech and Dated Policies Collide: a Conversation with Vitalik Buterin
- Most Influential in Blockchain 2017 #5: Joe Lubin
- Interview with Microsoft's Marley Gray
Projects
New Projects and White Paper
- Digitex - Commission-Free Bitcoin Futures Trading
- Digital Asset Calculator - It provides your tokens net value anytime, anywhere.
Project updates and Press Release
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Polymath unveils securities token platform (Press Release)
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The IOTA of China? How IoT Chain ($ITC) Is Securing The Internet Of Things (Press Release)
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DNN Begins Whitelisting For Public Sale
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Request Network project update - Release of the JS library, on the road to Request Great Wall
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Decentraland Project Updates
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Melon Dev Update
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ETHLend Partnership with SwissBorg on lending. ETHLend Airdrop info.
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Aragon Team Update
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Minerva update
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Toshi: A Dapp Browser for the Ethereum Network
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Cosmos update.
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TRON Reached Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Game.com
Trading
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Vulnerability found in Electrum wallet, upgrade to version 3.0.4
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Stellar (XLM) price goes sky rocketing, recorded ATH $0.91, SureRemit AMA, Mobius token sale
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Total market cap now over 800,000,000,000 dollars!
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TRON recorded a new high, reached #6, live streaming on January 6th
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ETH doing more transactions than all other chains combined (update 4 jan)
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The Gibraltar Stock Exchange joins the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
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Coinbase - No decision to add additional assets to either GDAX or Coinbase.
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Litecoin Opendime Hardware Wallets introduced - Opendime is a small USB stick that allows you to spend Litecoin like a dollar bill. Pass it along multiple times. Connect to any USB to check balance. Unseal anytime to spend online. Trust no one. Video
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BitPay Invoices Will Soon Require Payment Protocol for Bitcoin Transactions
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BTC.com wallet is rolling out Segwit - goodbye high fees!
Miscellaneous
Bounty
- Bug Bounty (Up to $1,000 in ETH) - Crowdsale contract - Ethorse
Hiring
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Consensys
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Ripple is hiring.
- Engineering Manager
- Senior Software Engineer, Ripple API
- Sr Software Engineer-Java
Humor
- Finally! A use case for fiat money.
Events
- January 7-12, 2018: EURO TECH WEEK at LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
- January 9, 2018: ConsenSys & Blockchain EXE present: Smart homes & Smart contracts - Meetup Ney York City, CES to Hold Digital Money Forum in Las Vegas
- January 15-16, 2018: World Crypto Economic Forum at
South San Francisco Conference Center - January 16, 2018: ConsenSys Ethereum Meetup Dubai
- January 26, 2018: Blockchain Connect – San Francisco
- February 1, 2018: Consensys Meetup at Paris
- Feb 4-6, 2018: BLOCKCHAIN ECONOMIC FORUM 2018 at Singapore
- Feb 16 - 18, 2018: ETHDenver (Hackathon + Workshop)
ICO
- ICO or Token Sale Calendar
- New DAICO (by Vitalik) scheme for Tokensales at Reddit- Designing the “Fair ICO”
- A report by TokenData
ICOs ended 2017 on a high by raising more than one billion dollars ($1.2B) in December, bringing total capital raised to $5.6B. It's safe to say that this has exceeded everyone's expectations.
Key statistics for 2017:- USD Raised: $5,596 Million*
- No. of Completed & Reported ICOs: 442
- Average Raise: $12.7M
- Median Raise: $4.5M
- Average Token Return: 12.8x
- Median Token Return: 4.9x
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