A notable voice is joining the ranks of ethereum developers who are seeking to block powerful ASIC miners from earning an outsized share of the platform’s valuable ether cryptocurrency. In an developer meeting Friday, Martin Holst Swende, security lead at…
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Music-Sharing Startup Audius Gives New Details on Twin Crypto Tokens
Soon after closing a $5.5 million funding round, music-focused blockchain startup Audius is revealing just how its network will operate when it launches in roughly a year. As previously reported, the firm is creating a decentralized platform aimed at providing…
When Blockchains Go Down: Why Crypto Outages Are on the Rise
Berniesanders (not to be confused with former presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders) is an institution on blockchain-based blogging platform Steemit. Steemit allows content creators to earn crypto – at least, crypto that’s native to the Steem blockchain, of…
Momentum Is Building to Block Ethereum ASICs
Several ethereum miners and developers have come forward with the goal of stopping specialized mining hardware from effectively operating on the network. Underway since April, the controversy surrounding application-specific integrated circuits (or ASICs) on ethereum rose after news broke last Thursday of…
Enigma Delays Release of ‘Discovery’ Protocol on Ethereum Mainnet
Engima, the startup seeking to bring privacy to the world of public blockchains, is delaying the launch of its mainnet as part of a wider reworking of its developmental roadmap. The company had previously planned to deploy its “Discovery” protocol on…
No Longer Beta: $200 Million Tezos Blockchain Will Be Official Mainnet Soon
The “experimental” phase for the Tezos blockchain is over. On Monday morning, the Tezos Foundation will officially announce that the protocol will no longer be in a beta period, and instead be a full mainnet, launched and run by its…
Ethereum Developers Move to Alter the Blockchain’s Economics
A proposal that, if enacted, would change how much new cryptocurrency is released on the world’s second-largest blockchain was finalized Friday, with developers agreeing to include the code for such a change as part of ethereum’s upcoming October upgrade, Constantinople.…
Plz No Cat: The Future of Crypto Disputes Is Being Decided By Doges
Could you sneak a cat past the doges? That’s the idea behind a new game launched by Kleros, an ethereum-based startup that raised $2.5 million in the first round of its crypto token sale in July. Called “Doges on Trial,”…
Bitmain Confirms New Crypto Mining Facility in Texas
Bitcoin mining hardware giant Bitmain is officially setting up shop in Rockdale, Texas, and expects to launch mining operations early next year. The firm confirmed Monday that it is investing $500 million over the next seven years into a new…
A Small Crypto Coin Is Making Big Claims About a Private Proof-of-Stake
If any coin is going to fly under the radar, it makes sense for a privacy coin to do so. Spectre (not be confused with a separate project called SPECTRE), created two crypto tokens – the aptly named spectre token and…