(Blockchain Weekly Recap)

News

World news

• Fortune 500 Tech Firm Avnet Now Accepts Crypto Payments via BitPay
• UK Parliament Presented Showcase of Real-World Blockchain Applications
• Blockchain and Crypto Business Reps Protest Nevada Bill
• Cisco: Blockchain Market Will Be $10 Billion by 2021. Tech behemoth and EEA member Cisco is making big moves into decentralized networks.
• China’s Alibaba Partners With Chinese Software Giant to Promote Blockchain Development
• Facebook's Next Major Shift is Likely to Come via its Blockchain Project
• Report: Bitmain to Launch 200,000 Crypto Mining Rigs in China
• Ex-NATO Secretary General Bullish on Blockchain as He Partners With Swiss Startup

Ethereum news

• EF discontinuing Mist. Sunsetting Mist - What’s ahead for our team.

• Universal Logins development roundup and events

• Ethereum in a Netflix series. Netflix series OA - “What’s ether? Is that some kind of, like, digital currency?

• ProgPoW

  • Clarification on the Acceptance of ProgPoW Into a Future Hard Fork by Hudson Jameson.
  • Ethereum Governance, me and ProgPoW by Andrea Lanfranchi
  • My response to “Ethereum Governance, me and ProgPoW” by Alexey Akhunov.
  • 13 Questions about Ethereum’s Movement to ProgPow by jon scott stevens

• Ethereum Funding

  • ethereum-funding/blockrewardsfunding
  • Funding Open Source In The Blockchain Era. Exploring the Design Space: Inflation Funding, MicroTransactions, and More by Kevin Owocki
  • A simple way to fund more public goods in Ethereum that makes everyone happy by Evan Van Ness
  • Another proposal for protocol level funding by Eric Conner
  • An even simpler way to fund more public goods in Ethereum that makes everyone happy - Reddit

• Istanbul Hard Fork EIP Security Bounty of 20 ETH.

Other blockchain news

• Ethereum Classic is going to decentralize it's improvement-proposal process.
• This Week In BCH. An explanation of 0-fee transactions in BCH.
• This Week In Dash: March 18th – March 23rd
• Charles Talks Cardano with EmurgoHK

Exchange, Wallet, Trading and Minning news

• MEW Reincarnation, Revisited

Technology

• Ethereum 2.0

  • "The first eth2.0-specs commit is 6 month old 🎉 Tons of phase 0 and phase 1 progress. Plausible timing for 2019" - Justin Drake

• Release

  • Parity Signer v2.0 Beta: New features and improved security
  • Ganache v2.0.0 - Chocolate Birthday Cake
  • web3.js 1.0.0-beta.49
  • Nethermind v0.9.6

Projects

New Projects and Protocol

• The Javvy: An All-in-one Crypto Experience
• Whisp: Payroll for the Global Workforce. Whisp has re-invented how remote workers are paid. Built on ethereum, Whisp is easier, faster and cheaper than payroll solutions built on legacy financial systems.
• Buidler: The extensible Solidity developer tool
• Fatum: a Proof-of-Concept Framework built on Ethereum
• Lition: How This Blockchain Business Project Works for Crypto Adoption?

Projects and Protocols update

• Maker Executive Vote to Raise the Stability Fee to 7.5%
• 0x Roadmap 2019 (part 2): Scalability R&D
• TokenCard Update: Timings, Fees & Shipping
• Bulletproofing against Chaos Unicorns with Status on ARM
• Mysterium Network - Reddit AMA - March 2019

Miscellaneous

Out of the league

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Changelly’s Interview with Kosala Hemachandra: From the MEW V5 Launch to the Future of Blockchain

• Taipei Ethereum Meetup presentation (Transcript): [Scalable blockchains as data layers ](Taipei Ethereum Meetup presentation)| Vitalik Buterin

• Vitalik Buterin video on Unchained live

• Moloch’s Ameen Soleimani on Unchained

• Vitalik Buterin: Current and Future State of Ethereum

• Keynote: Joe Lubin | SXSW 2019

Blockchain good reads

• Who Are The Core Devs of Ethereum? Part I and Part II

• Beyond Cryptocurrency: The 3 Key Elements of Blockchain in Real Life

Also check: EtherWorld's collection of Good Read on Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs (Event Calendar)

• March 26, 2019: Webinar: The Final Word: IBFT 2.0 and Enterprise Consensus by PegaSys
• March 27, 2019: Infura Legacy keys Support will officially stop.
• April 4-5, 2019: Deconomy (Seoul)
• April 8-14, 2019: EDCON in Sydney.
• April 15-30, 2019: Ethereal Virtual Hackathon
• April 19-21, 2019: ETHCapetown, Cape Town, South Africa.
• April 23-24, 2019: Blockchain Revolution Global at Toronto
• April 23-24, 2019: Blockchain Life 2019 at Singapore.
• April 24, 2019: Enterprise Blockchain Awards
• April 24-26, 2019: Truffle Blockchain Development Workshop, Dublin 2019
• May 10-11, 2019: ETHEREAL, NEW YORK
• May 13-15, 2019: Consensus by Coindesk. Register here.
• May 16, 2019: TOKEN SUMMIT IV NEW YORK CITY.
• May 17, 2019: Hard deadline to accept proposals for “Istanbul” upgrade.
• May 17–19, 2019: ETHNewYork
• May 17, 2019: Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork
• May 23-25, 2019: Swarm Orange Summit Madrid 2019
• June 22 – 24, 2019: Zcon, Annual Privacy Conference
• August 2–4, 2019: ETHIndia II
• September 6–8, 2019: ETHBoston
• October 2019: ETHWaterloo II, Sign up to mailing list to be notified when applications open.
• October 2019: Istanbul. Planned Ethereum Network Upgrade

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