EtherWorld's weekly: August 12, 2018

(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

• Facebook's Marcus Steps Down From Coinbase Board

• Cryptocurrencies: Regulating the new economy, a report by CNBC

• Republican congressman discloses he owns cryptocurrency. First member of US congress to disclose.

• The JPEG Committee is “exploring Blockchain” — to put DRM into JPEG

• Opera Browser Opens Its Built-in Cryptocurrency Wallet to Desktop Users

• In India, Centre may allow crypto tokens for financial transactions.

• Japanese IT giant GMO's Cryptocurrency Business Made $2.3 Million Profit in Q2.

• Swiss banks open for cryptocurrency assets

• Bitmain Chooses Rockdale, Texas, for Newest Blockchain Data Center

• Poll for Bitcoin Core supporters by Vitalik Buterin on Twitter

Ethereum News

• Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians calling Council of Prague Announcement
• Ethereum Proof-of-Authority on Microsoft Azure.
• Portal Network - Integration ENS with IPFS
• ENS + Gitcoin - Gitcoin are offering bounties to dApps for integrating ENS into their infrastructure
• Claiming your DNS on ENS via Web (1/3: The theory)
• Compelling ENS domains use cases.
• Is there any way to cryptographically prove ownership of an email address? - Alex Van De Sande
• Ethereum Research - Use of https://gastoken.io/ - positive or negative for the network?
• Vitalik's thought on Cardano's comparison of Ouroboros and Casper.

Technology

• Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #44 [08/10/18]

  • Agenda
  • Video
  • Notes

• Constantinople Progress Tracker #53

• Sharding Update With Prysmatic Labs

  • Biweekly Development Update # 10— Prysmatic Labs

• EIP

  • EIP-1109: removes the gas costs of the CALL-like opcodes when calling precompiled contracts.

• Plasma Implementers Call #12: Run the Gamut

• Casper Standup Call#63

• Releases

• Swarm docker images have been released

Good Reads on Blockchain

• A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus by Vitalik Buterin
• Position paper on resource pricing (draft) - Vitalik Buterin.
• VDF reading list
• A Compact Guide To Knowing The Importance of IoT in Blockchain
  
• Dissecting some of the latest cryptocurrency exchange phishkits, a guide by MyCrypto

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Interview: Decentralized Crypto Exchanges Can Solve Fake Volumes And Malpractices - Sasha Ivanov, CEO Waves and Vostok.
• On-Chain Governance meetup by Web3Foundation July 2018
• Interview with Becca Liebert, ENS team
• English transcript of Chain View interview – Erik Zhang, NEO founder
• Ethereum Client Developer Conference (ECDC) Video

Projects

New Projects

• Empleos - Jobs Marketplace powered by Blockchain
• Etherships – Using state channels to scale Ethereum games. GitHub

Project updates and Press Release

• MetaMask to stop injecting web3 on November 02, 2018.
• Introducing the Grid+ Lattice1
• uPort - A Proposal for User-Managed Data
• The clarification on KuCoin Office Location
• Gitcoin - How to BUIDL a Mesh Network of Human Beings
• Augur - Fees, Fees, and… Fees?
• Bancor - Trading the First Tomatoes on the Blockchain

Miscellaneous

Out of the league

• Monday Art - 21 Million Bitcoin Club

Trading & Mining

• Coinbase Increasing daily limits to $25,000 and enabling immediate trading. Twitter. Scaling platform for spikes in customer demand.
• Updated Binance listing tips
• Ethereum Classic on Robinhood Crypto
• Announcing Trezor integration with MetaMask.
• Why You Should Own Cryptocurrencies, a report by Forbes
• The new miners: Wave of crypto mining at colleges, businesses raising hacking concernsain Weighs $18 Billion IPO, One of World's Largest

Vacancies

• Bitmain - job openings at the new Rockdale, Texas facility.

Hackathon, Events & Developer programs

• August 19, 2018: deadline to participate in Devcon4
• August 24-26, 2018: Loom hackathon (Oslo, Norway)
• September 6, 2018: Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians - Gathering of Security Community
• September 7-9, 2018: ETHBerlin - Back to Basics.
• September 8, 2018: Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)
• September 14-15, 2018: Litecoin Summit
• September 15-16, 2018: Kiev DappDev hackathon
• September 21-23, 2018: EthAtlanta hackathon at Atlanta Tech Park.
• October 3-4, 2018: CryptoSprings
• October 5-7, 2018: ETHSanFrancisco
• October 5-7, 2018: TruffleCon 2018 in Portland, Oregon.
• October 11, 2018: Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)
• October 22–24, 2018 : Web3 Summit in Funkhaus, Berlin.
• Oct 26-28, 2018: Status hackathon (Prague)
• October 30, 2018 – November 02, 2018 : Devcon4 in Prague.
• DECEMBER 7-9, 2018: THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED GOVERNANCE In ATHENS

• March 19, 2018 - Spetmber 30, 2018: Gnosis X by Gnosis - a recurring challenge inviting developers, creators, and businesses to build customized prediction market applications on top of the Gnosis platform.

ICO

• IDMoney Token sale starts July 01, 2018 - August 31, 2018.
• Save Environment Token Token sale starts September 05, 2018.
• ORBIS - Onging Token sale till October 29, 2018.
• MyShield - Token registration has commenced.
• AligatoCoin - Token sale start from July 29, 2018 - August 30, 2018
• Ubex - Onging Token sale till August 13, 2018

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