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Bitcoin

  • Part 1: How to Build a Simple Blockchain Application in Javascript
    MotivationContinue reading on HackerNoon.com »
    - 13 Jul 19, 5:04pm -
  • LIBRA- Decoding Facebook Cryptocurrency In 7 Questions
    The American giant must present Tuesday its cryptocurrency project. While waiting for its launch scheduled for 2020, the future “libra”, conceived in partnership with 27 groups, raises many questions: how can we buy them? How will it work? Who to…
    - 13 Jul 19, 6:18am -
  • Trump’s Bitcoin Beatdown
    The president’s latest tweet signals doom for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. No surprises there, thenPhoto by David Libeert on UnsplashHear This, People!Of course, he wouldn’t. It’s obvious, isn’t it? Anything that goes against his power ba…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:47am -
  • Should Smart Contracts be Non-Turing Complete?
    Everyone has their favorite programming language, just as everyone has their favorite shoes or favorite food, but I’m not here to tell you to give up your favorite language (trust me, I would never dream of such a thing). Instead, I want us to take…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:46am -
  • Q: Does cryptocurrency trading volume grow on trees? A: Yes.
    A quick overview on the magnitude of exaggerated trading volume reported by cryptocurrency exchangesThe prevalence of exaggerated trading volume in the cryptocurrency ecosystem is far from a secret and ground level research shows that most of the cry…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:40am -
  • What to Expect From the New FATF Crypto-Guidelines?
    What to Expect from the new FATF Crypto-Guidelines?The FATF (Financial Action Task Force) has recently issued a new set of guidelines which are applicable to the crypto sector, mainly with regard to Virtual Assets (VA) and Virtual Assets Service Prov…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:37am -
  • How to build a Bitcoin Sentiment Analysis Strategy
    TL;DR: We built a profitable Bitcoin sentiment strategy yielding 2400% returns over 24 months. Adding trading fees made the strategy more realistic while finding optimal sentiment combinations and window sizes increased returns dramatically.In the pr…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:32am -
  • How Profitable will the Libra be for its Early Investors?
    How Profitable will Libra be for its Early Investors?BY CHESNOT/GETTY IMAGES.In a previous article, we, briefly, examined Facebook’s newest adventure, Project Libra, and the characteristics of its to-be cryptocurrency, Libra. Particularly, we looke…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:27am -
  • July Cryptocurrency exchange data analyzed
    July — Cryptocurrency Exchange Data Analyzedhttps://corindex.com/reportRating/2019/July/07/An analytical platform that focuses on becoming the most comprehensive and exhaustive source of cryptocurrency related analytics, Chain Open Research, h…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:21am -
  • The Crypto Market Consistently Undervalues Projects Which Are Objectively Technically Advanced
    Photo by MabelAmber / Pixabay“Generally speaking, the prices of cryptocurrencies are not governed by chance, but they tend to behave like they do.” I don’t exactly recall who said this first, but I think a more apt description would be that pe…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:20am -
Bitcoin is a worldwide cryptocurrency and digital payment system. It’s the first decentralized digital currency. The system — created by Satoshi Nakamoto — works without a central repository.

Blockchain

  • Part 1: How to Build a Simple Blockchain Application in Javascript
    MotivationContinue reading on HackerNoon.com »
    - 13 Jul 19, 5:04pm -
  • LIBRA- Decoding Facebook Cryptocurrency In 7 Questions
    The American giant must present Tuesday its cryptocurrency project. While waiting for its launch scheduled for 2020, the future “libra”, conceived in partnership with 27 groups, raises many questions: how can we buy them? How will it work? Who to…
    - 13 Jul 19, 6:18am -
  • Binance Singapore Celebrates Public Launch With Fiat-Crypto Payment Gateway
    The Singaporean arm of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange has announced its public and introduction of a fiat-crypto gateway. Binance Singapore, which held a soft launch in April 2019, has joined forces with Vertex, enabling traders in the…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:47am -
  • Should Smart Contracts be Non-Turing Complete?
    Everyone has their favorite programming language, just as everyone has their favorite shoes or favorite food, but I’m not here to tell you to give up your favorite language (trust me, I would never dream of such a thing). Instead, I want us to take…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:46am -
  • Blockchain, It’s All About Alternatives!
    Alternatives to make the web of Berners-Lee, not the one of GAFAM.There is always an other door to open! — On pexelsWhen I discovered blockchain, pretty much like any newbie to this word, I got lost in definitions, fortunately not to the poin…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:41am -
  • What to Expect From the New FATF Crypto-Guidelines?
    What to Expect from the new FATF Crypto-Guidelines?The FATF (Financial Action Task Force) has recently issued a new set of guidelines which are applicable to the crypto sector, mainly with regard to Virtual Assets (VA) and Virtual Assets Service Prov…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:37am -
  • Insights from IEO & ICO project team, with a story how they successfully passed it
    The authors of one Telegram channel asked me to answer a few questions about the past IEO, ICO and work with the blockchain project from a marketing and PR perspective during these periods. Briefly, the response didn’t work, so the text didn’t go…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:35am -
  • How Profitable will the Libra be for its Early Investors?
    How Profitable will Libra be for its Early Investors?BY CHESNOT/GETTY IMAGES.In a previous article, we, briefly, examined Facebook’s newest adventure, Project Libra, and the characteristics of its to-be cryptocurrency, Libra. Particularly, we looke…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:27am -
  • July Cryptocurrency exchange data analyzed
    July — Cryptocurrency Exchange Data Analyzedhttps://corindex.com/reportRating/2019/July/07/An analytical platform that focuses on becoming the most comprehensive and exhaustive source of cryptocurrency related analytics, Chain Open Research, h…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:21am -
  • The Crypto Market Consistently Undervalues Projects Which Are Objectively Technically Advanced
    Photo by MabelAmber / Pixabay“Generally speaking, the prices of cryptocurrencies are not governed by chance, but they tend to behave like they do.” I don’t exactly recall who said this first, but I think a more apt description would be that pe…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:20am -
A blockchain is a digitized, decentralized, public ledger of all cryptocurrency transactions. Blockchain has been popularized by Bitcoin and is very disruptive to all centralized corporate structures.

Cryptocurrency

  • Part 1: How to Build a Simple Blockchain Application in Javascript
    MotivationContinue reading on HackerNoon.com »
    - 13 Jul 19, 5:04pm -
  • LIBRA- Decoding Facebook Cryptocurrency In 7 Questions
    The American giant must present Tuesday its cryptocurrency project. While waiting for its launch scheduled for 2020, the future “libra”, conceived in partnership with 27 groups, raises many questions: how can we buy them? How will it work? Who to…
    - 13 Jul 19, 6:18am -
  • Trump’s Bitcoin Beatdown
    The president’s latest tweet signals doom for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. No surprises there, thenPhoto by David Libeert on UnsplashHear This, People!Of course, he wouldn’t. It’s obvious, isn’t it? Anything that goes against his power ba…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:47am -
  • How to build a Bitcoin Sentiment Analysis Strategy
    TL;DR: We built a profitable Bitcoin sentiment strategy yielding 2400% returns over 24 months. Adding trading fees made the strategy more realistic while finding optimal sentiment combinations and window sizes increased returns dramatically.In the pr…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:32am -
  • How Profitable will the Libra be for its Early Investors?
    How Profitable will Libra be for its Early Investors?BY CHESNOT/GETTY IMAGES.In a previous article, we, briefly, examined Facebook’s newest adventure, Project Libra, and the characteristics of its to-be cryptocurrency, Libra. Particularly, we looke…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:27am -
  • July Cryptocurrency exchange data analyzed
    July — Cryptocurrency Exchange Data Analyzedhttps://corindex.com/reportRating/2019/July/07/An analytical platform that focuses on becoming the most comprehensive and exhaustive source of cryptocurrency related analytics, Chain Open Research, h…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:21am -
  • The Crypto Market Consistently Undervalues Projects Which Are Objectively Technically Advanced
    Photo by MabelAmber / Pixabay“Generally speaking, the prices of cryptocurrencies are not governed by chance, but they tend to behave like they do.” I don’t exactly recall who said this first, but I think a more apt description would be that pe…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:20am -
  • The Case for Market Maturity in Crypto

    - 13 Jul 19, 4:13am -
  • Bitcoin: The Shining Light of Money (Sorry, I Meant Cryptocurrency)
    Those that advocate a future breaking from the past iniquities, lies and falsehoods of the financial world are backing Bitcoin to go all the way. For them, it’s the light, the new prince, a way of doing business transactions that are changing the …
    - 12 Jul 19, 7:21am -
  • This Bull Run is Fundamentally Different Than the Previous One. Here’s Why.
    Everyone knows about the time in 2017 and early 2018 when bitcoin hit over $20,000 USD and Ethereum was sitting nicely at $1,300+. In fact, the total market cap for coins and tokens listed on CoinMarketCap, had just ticked over $800,000,000,000. Ever…
    - 12 Jul 19, 6:46am -
A cryptocurrency is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange using cryptography to secure the transactions, to control the creation of additional units, and to verify the transfer of assets.

Decentralization

  • Blockchain, It’s All About Alternatives!
    Alternatives to make the web of Berners-Lee, not the one of GAFAM.There is always an other door to open! — On pexelsWhen I discovered blockchain, pretty much like any newbie to this word, I got lost in definitions, fortunately not to the poin…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:41am -
  • About Tech Independence [VIDEO]
    https://medium.com/media/8e4cf77501b12382131f1dd9cda06529/hrefWATCH Founding Hacker Noon, Independent Publications, and the Future of Tech with David SmookeWas great to meet Amber in person and be a guest on the Cazzell Report. Have been reading her…
    - 11 Jul 19, 12:58am -
  • Blockchain Mass Adoption: Expert Takes on What is Needed
    Growth hacking to mass adoptionThe blockchain industry has reached new heights in 2019 with increased awareness and legitimacy. Industry titans such as Facebook, Wal-Mart, and Salesforce have all publicized their intentions of utilizing blockchain t…
    - 10 Jul 19, 7:56am -
  • Crypto-economic Networks as Technological Enablers of Scalable Tribe-like Collaboration
    Crypto-economic networks for scalable tribe-like collaborationSource: PixabayThe non-scalable tribal collaboration“Homo sapiens rules the world because it is the only animal that can believe in things that exist purely in its own imagination, such…
    - 9 Jul 19, 5:59am -
  • So You Want to Leave Facebook
    A survey of social networks, from Signal to ScuttlebuttSome of the top social networks of each category.There are a lot of social networks out there, and a lot of good reasons to leave some of the most popular ones. The goal of this post is to share…
    - 8 Jul 19, 2:15pm -
  • What’s Next for Surveillance Capitalism and Social Domains?
    A psychologist’s perspective on why, how and when digital privacy violations irk usBased on his field work, the world-renown anthropologist Richard Shweder has discovered that societies are constructed from three ethics: autonomy, community, and d…
    - 8 Jul 19, 8:42am -
  • Why am I working on police brutality insurance
    Why am I working on police brutality insurance?When I have never been brutalized by the policeHow can we go from how things are now to how they should be?This week was fantastic. I had one of those “oh my God what have I done with the last five y…
    - 6 Jul 19, 7:35pm -
  • Decentralised finance as new financial sector
    Decentralised Finance (DeFi) vs BanksNowadays, decentralised finance (DeFi) is becoming one of the leading narratives for promising blockchain use-cases. It is not surprising as more than 85% of all crypto currencies market cap is already allocated…
    - 25 Jun 19, 9:31am -
  • Women in Blockchain | Decentralized
    Women in Blockchain21 June 2019#Block 3June 2019Women in Blockchain is a Decentralized collaboration of skilled women with one common goal; to further Blockchain Technology through Education.Disclaimer: This is not financial advice by me or any of t…
    - 21 Jun 19, 9:30pm -
Decentralization is the process of distributing or dispersing functions, powers, people or things away from a central location or authority, such as a central bank.

Ethereum

  • Should Smart Contracts be Non-Turing Complete?
    Everyone has their favorite programming language, just as everyone has their favorite shoes or favorite food, but I’m not here to tell you to give up your favorite language (trust me, I would never dream of such a thing). Instead, I want us to take…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:46am -
  • Blockchain, It’s All About Alternatives!
    Alternatives to make the web of Berners-Lee, not the one of GAFAM.There is always an other door to open! — On pexelsWhen I discovered blockchain, pretty much like any newbie to this word, I got lost in definitions, fortunately not to the poin…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:41am -
  • July Cryptocurrency exchange data analyzed
    July — Cryptocurrency Exchange Data Analyzedhttps://corindex.com/reportRating/2019/July/07/An analytical platform that focuses on becoming the most comprehensive and exhaustive source of cryptocurrency related analytics, Chain Open Research, h…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:21am -
  • ETH 2.0 Serenity — What to Expect & This Will Affect aelf
    ETH 2.0 Serenity — What to Expect & Will It Affect aelf?Ethereum is the second largest cryptocurrency or blockchain to date, surpassed only by bitcoin. Even then, it has still been plagued with scalability issues for years, managing only 15 tr…
    - 11 Jul 19, 4:29am -
  • The State Of Blockchain In Ireland
    Blockchain is a technology that is changing the rules. In the next few decades, blockchain will likely have a bigger impact on the world than the internet has had to date, as we enter the next stage of its evolution — the internet of value.Ire…
    - 10 Jul 19, 3:00pm -
  • How To Mine Cryptocurrency From Home
    There are 3 ways you can mine and power crypto from home. Full-DIY, Semi-DIY and Plug-n-Play. Let’s look at the cost in terms of time and money and also where to get started.Crypto networks like Bitcoin, Ethereum and many others run on decentraliz…
    - 9 Jul 19, 4:09pm -
  • Understanding IPFS in Depth(4/6): What is MultiFormats?
    Every Choice in Computing has a Tradeoff. It’s Time to Make Future-Proof Systems.An Ultimate Tutorial Guide to Multiformatshttps://medium.com/media/1062e90ea83fdb0573eb7119ac4e506d/hrefThis post is a continuation(part 4) in a new “Understanding I…
    - 8 Jul 19, 10:28am -
  • Token Daily Capital Newsletter #3
    July 4th, 2019TWEET OF THE DAY“Pro tip: Don’t learn anything about core internet protocols. Not even basic concepts. The internet is scary & completely insecure! “Leigh perfectly summarizes every person’s response when they learn about BGP…
    - 7 Jul 19, 4:06pm -
Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality - founded by Vitalik Buterin in 2013.

ICO (Initial Coin Offering)

  • Insights from IEO & ICO project team, with a story how they successfully passed it
    The authors of one Telegram channel asked me to answer a few questions about the past IEO, ICO and work with the blockchain project from a marketing and PR perspective during these periods. Briefly, the response didn’t work, so the text didn’t go…
    - 13 Jul 19, 4:35am -
  • Initial Coin Offering (ICO): life, death and regulation [Part I]
    Photo by Dmitry Moraine on UnsplashInitial Coin Offering (ICO): life, death and regulation[Part I]In this life we must die several times to then reborn. And the crises, although frightening, serve to terminate an epoch and inaugurate another.Eugenio…
    - 23 Jun 19, 7:50pm -
  • Hybrid Tokens are Superior to Utility Tokens. Here’s Why:
    Why Hybrid Tokens are Superior to Utility TokensComparing Utility Tokens, Security Tokens and Hybrid TokensI see many articles proclaiming the death of the Initial Coin Offering. Indeed, volumes of ICO funding have indeed gone down drastically. At…
    - 23 Jun 19, 7:48pm -
  • ICOs and STOs and the crazy, complicated world of crypto finance
    ICOs, STOs, and The Crazy, Complicated World of Crypto FinanceBy Victor Santos, CEO and co-founder, AirfoxPhoto by William Iven on UnsplashSince the term “blockchain bubble” reared its head again last year, the world has been reminded that tech…
    - 20 Jun 19, 5:06pm -
  • SEC v. Kik Analysis
    Last week the SEC hit Kik Interactive with a federal complaint alleging violations of the Securities Act in connection with Kik’s ICO of its digital “Kin” token. I tweeted my gut check of the allegations while the story was fresh, promising to…
    - 11 Jun 19, 6:57pm -
  • IEO — the rebirth of ICO
    IEO — the rebirth of ICOICOs (Initial Coin Offering) were born in 2016, had a golden age in 2017 and almost died in 2018, when majority of companies in late 2018 were unable to raise a single Bitcoin in their token sale.But now they are back,…
    - 4 Jun 19, 5:50am -
  • 6 Reasons Why People Still Aren’t Buying Bitcoin
    With education, time, and regulations, more people will get hold of some bitcoin and cryptocurrency.Continue reading on HackerNoon.com »
    - 3 Jun 19, 2:30am -
  • Why ICOs were doomed to fail from the start
    Arkadia was once optimistic about ICOs and even started to pursue one in September 2017, back then there was huge optimism and frenzy in the crypto space. Ambitious ideas that would change the world were being reported across different news media and…
    - 30 May 19, 12:46am -
  • Best IEO strategies: How to fundraise on IEO launchpads
    Best IEO Strategies: How to fundraise on IEO launchpadsOver the last few months, we have been observing how Initial Exchange Offerings are breaking into the crypto space and — along with the bullish crypto market — completely reanimating…
    - 28 May 19, 10:26am -
Initial coin offering (ICO) is an unregulated means of crowdfunding via use of cryptocurrency, which can be a source of capital for startup companies.