EtherWorld's weekly: February 4, 2018
Blockchain news, technology updates, project update, ICO and trading.
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News
World news
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Facebook bans crypto ads
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European Commission launches the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum
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Illinois Eyes Blockchain for IDs and Public Asset Management
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U.S. Regulators Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether
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Russian State Bank Will Open a Cryptocurrency Exchange in Europe
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OMERS (Ontario pension giant) expands cryptocurrency presence with $50-million Ethereum public company offering
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Is Goldman Sachs planning a cryptocurrency desk using 0x?
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Coincheck heist spurs regulation.
Ethereum News
- Aya Miyaguchi new Executive Director of Ethereum Foundation
- SRF Receives $2.4M Ethereum Donation from Vitalik Buterin
- Greg Maxwell calls Vitalik Buterin a liar, VB comes to clarify why he didn't build Ethereum on top of Bitcoin
- Andreas M. Antonopoulos is writing “Mastering Ethereum” with Gav Wood, for O’Reilly Media
- New EEA members include: AMD, Ernst & Young, Pfizer, Kaspersky, and Royal Bank of Canada among 80 others
- ENS Name Buying — Simplified
Technology
Developer's Update
- Parity 1.9.2 allows you to connect to the Ropsten testnet.
- Parity 1.9.1 shows your ERC-20 token balances.
- ERC 865: Pay transfers in tokens instead of gas, in one transaction.
- Plasma Implementers Call #1 Video
- IOTA C++ Library (v1.0.0) has been released.
- CryptoZombies Lesson 4 - Zombie Battles & Monetizing Your DApps
Good Reads on Blockchain
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Initial explorations on full PoS proposal mechanisms by Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Research)
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Gas price oracles and the future of ethgasstation
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State of Decentralized Exchanges, 2018 by Nathan Sexer
Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews
- Ethereum PoS: Casper FFG 2017 Chronicles - BPASE '18 by Karl Floersch
- ScalingNOW! #1: Björn & Max from Parity Talk to Giveth about Bridging EVM Chains NOW!
- Interview with TrueBit #ArtProject Creator, Jessica Angel
- Ben Siegel from the Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition
- Polymath AMA with Trevor Koverko
- Joe Lubin at Ethereal Davos 2018
- Gitcoin: Sustaining Open Source with Cryptocurrency, Kevin Owocki on the Changelog
Projects
New Projects and White Paper
- FarmaTrust - Saving Lives Using Blockchain and AI
- Unilot - Decentralized gambling platform
- Swarm.fund - The A.I. Driven Investment Economy
- Crypto Jingles - First music based Ethereum game self.ethereum
- The Dfinity Consensus - White Paper
- Crypto Racing League: a decentralized racing game on the Ethereum Blockchain
Project updates and Press Release
- Gibraltar Exchange Announces ICO for Regulated Token Sale and Exchange - Press Release
- Block.one and Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Announce Joint Venture for New $325 Million EOS.IO Fund
- Quantstamp- Announcing Proof-of-Caring Submission Deadline
- El Petro - WhitePaper
- Request Network project update (February 2nd, 2018)-Tech development, RCN partnership
- The District Weekly - February 3rd, 2018
- Aragon Monthly - Bringing DAOs back
- Ambrosus Sensor Systems: Progress update on integrating IoT with Blockchain
- OmiseGO Town Hall 0x1
- Kyber Network Mainnet Pilot Launch on February 11, 2018.
- Cofound.it Q4 2017 quarterly report
- ICONOMI Financial Report — Q4 2017
- Makerdao: The Road Ahead for Dai
- Melonport Update (Q1 2018)
- VeChain partners with iTaotaoke to bring intellectual property protection to content creators
- Hyperledger Sawtooth 1.0 on Ethereum
- Grid+ Trustless Bridge Contracts v0.1 Released: Ethereum Scaling via EVM Sidechains
Trading
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Comparative Analysis of Cryptocurrency Market vs Traditional Stock Market
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Bitcoin.com launched a Bitcoin (BCH) Block Explorer.
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bitFlyer USA - 0% Trading Fee Promotion extended until February 15th
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X Wallet moving to donation model. First Restaurant accepting XLM as Payment!
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Rai.Exchange/Nanex has launched.
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Bitfinex: All pairs are now tradable against BTC, ETH & USD.
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Miscellaneous
Events
- Feb 9-11, 2018: PyCon 2018 - Colombia
- Feb 16 - 18, 2018: ETHDenver (Hackathon + Workshop)
- Mar 8-10, 2018: Ethereum Community Conference in Paris
ICO
- KickCity Moves Crowdsale Date to March 1st 2018
- DNN - Token Presale Extended to March 2.
- ICO or Token Sale Calendar
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