NEWS
Facebook bans crypto ads
Facebook has created a new policy that prohibits ads that promote financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices, such as binary options, initial coin offerings and cryptocurrency.
New project to fight deficit of smart contract developers
The number of job postings on LinkedIn related to Blockchain, cryptocurrency and Bitcoin, increased at least fourfold in 2017, according to data provided by Bloomberg Law. As the source says, the number of such jobs is expected to grow in 2018 as well. Needless to mention, skillful developers are few now and in high demand. A new project titled Fabric Token intends to solve the problem of the lack of Blockchain specialists and current difficulties in decentralized application development by setting up a marketplace and launching the application for smart contract generation.
TrueUSD: a USD-backed stablecoin you can trust
We’re excited to announce the launch of TrueUSD, a USD-backed stable cryptocurrency. TrueUSD offers token-holders full collateral, regular auditing, and legal protections to redeem TrueUSD for USD.
Block.one and Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital announce joint venture for new $325 million EOS fund
Block.one, the developer behind the leading blockchain software EOS.IO, and Galaxy Digital LP, a full service, digital assets merchant bank, today announced the formation and capitalization of a joint venture that is focused on developing the EOS.IO ecosystem and making strategic investments in projects that utilize EOS.IO blockchain software. As part of the new relationship, Block.one and Galaxy Digital will deploy capital for future investments through the capitalization of a new $325 million EOS.IO Ecosystem Fund
Tether confirms its relationship with auditor has 'dissolved'
Tether, the issuer of the dollar-pegged cryptocurrency USDT, said its relationship with audit firm Friedman LLP has ended. Friedman had been working on an audit of Tether, which has close ties to the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. Critics of the two companies, most prominently the blogger who goes by the handle Bitfinex'd, have claimed that Tether had been printing tokens out of thin air to drive up the price of bitcoin on the exchange.
FEED
Infrastructure matters
I have said before that, in order for a new asset to be defensible against its legacy counterparts, it must enable a new form of ownership, value transfer, or coordination. My ability to reasonably custody and transfer assets in these new ways is as much dependent on the available infrastructure as it is on the assets themselves.
South Korea's crypto craze explained by Seoul's largest investor
South Korea is responsible for 30% of all cryptocurrency trading, despite representing less than 1% of the world's population. When I decided to go on this crazy Asian cryptocurrency expedition, one of my goals was to go to South Korea to try and understand exactly what the hell was going over there. Well, two days after arriving in Seoul I somehow found myself taking shots of some type of clear Chinese liquor with Simon Seojoon Kim - CEO of Hashed - South Korea's largest cryptocurrency and blockchain investment fund
BLOCKCHAIN FOR NEWBIES
Blockchain is our best bet against future hacks
I believe blockchain technology could quickly solve the vast majority of our cybersecurity issues. The best part is that blockchain technology stands ready, right now, to make significant improvements to the internet’s security infrastructure — without the years of R&D traditional tech would need to catch up.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Bitcoin
Which is why Bitcoin is an excellent idea. It fulfills the needs of the complex system, not because it is a cryptocurrency, but precisely because it has no owner, no authority that can decide on its fate. It is owned by the crowd, its users. And it has now a track record of several years, enough for it to be an animal in its own right.
Bank-based blockchain projects are going to transform the financial services industry
At the core of Bitcoin and Ethereum technologies is the cryptographically secure digital ledger known as the blockchain. It’s a digital ledger where cryptocurrency transactions are recorded chronologically and publicly. Indeed, as the popularity of cryptocurrencies has grown, so has the banking industry’s interest in blockchain for fintech, with an increased and focused push on bank-backed blockchain projects.
The periodic table of Blockchain
There's a feeling that people today are naming new assets as traditional cryptocurrencies, ICO tokens, utility tokens etc. This leads to the confusion for the media and the wider crowd.
They start to believe that everything containing crypto – or token – is magic and possesses some kind of new features and monetary model. Regulators are the last to catch up, sometimes allowing everything that looks innovative, without deep analysis of the matter.
What is ARK?
Competition in the world of all-in-one blockchain solutions has been heating up these past few months. Multiple companies and projects aim to make a meaningful impact in this area. ARK claims to have the technology in place to become one of the world’s top blockchain service providers moving forward. With a team of 17 core members, a lot of interesting things are on the horizon.
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