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Æternity is a new scalable blockchain platform designed for fast and secure smart contracts interfacing with real-world data via a decentralized oracle, secured through a hybrid of proof-of-stake and proof-of-work mechanism. While many are trying to implement applications with real world data on top of a blockchain, the Æternity developers believe that storing the application’s state and code on-chain is not the best strategy, thus they designed a different blockchain architecture, which is well detailed in the Æternity Blockchain White Paper . We present a highly scalable blockchain architecture with a consensus mechanism which is also used to check the oracle. This makes the oracle very efficient, because it avoids layering one consensus mechanism on top of another. State channels are integrated to increase privacy and scalability. Tokens in channels can be transferred using purely functional smart contracts that can access oracle answers. By not storing contract code or state on

On May 19, the capital of the Czech Republic will host Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Prague – the event dedicated to the development of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Guests will meet supporters of a decentralized economy, successful blockchain developers and entrepreneurs and enjoy the exhibition of equipment for the industry. Prague is one of the most important bitcoin centers in Europe. The city has around a hundred places which receive bitcoins (including only bitcoins without fiat currencies). Employees in such places often receive salary in cryptocurrencies and that’s why they are interested in attracting more clients. A bitcoin owner can have a lunch, stay in a hotel and pay for educational and domestic services in Prague. A number of shops will accept a bitcoin card alongside with a traditional currency. Implementation of contactless chips which can also be used for bitcoin transactions is quite popular among citizens of the Czech Republic. These and other issues w

In this release: Maine Senate issued a bill on establishing a commission for exploring blockchain technology and for using it with paper ballots during elections. According to this document, “commission will study a potential using of blockchain technology for supporting and expanding of the current voting bulletins system in Maine”… The commission is supposed to increase the safety of the ballot papers, to make elections clearer and to reduce expenses. Blockchain platform to be used in South Korea as well. This country followed the US example and integrated blockchain into its election system. Coinstack platform established by Blocko blockchain software company was used while voting for social projects in terms of Ddabok Community Support Project in Gyeonggi-do Province. In developers’ opinion, such a technology was firstly used on this scale. Officials are sure about good results of blockchain using. As they say, the technology is the fourth industrial revolution which is suppose

The team of Cloak is currently working on the v2.0.1.2 wallet release (QT and Daemon), which will be ready in a few days. They are also in the process of preparing a Raspberry Pi build of the Cloak wallet, which will play an important part in the future plans as the Cloak project moves forward. In addition to the software updates, they are also putting the finishing touches to their roadmap, which will lay out the exciting steps ahead for the project over the coming months. The roadmap will be released in a few days, once their artists have worked their presentation magic. A Cloak portal site is also being created to compliment the roadmap. The current Team Cloak is comprised of previous members of the wider Cloak community. Over the previous few years, they have remained entirely self-funded while carrying out the work to make good on the promises of the previous team. They feel they are in a very good position now and are making significant plans for the road ahead. Joe (r3r), the

The Qtum Foundation raised over $15 million in a record five days, listing the project among the all-time top 10 blockchain-token crowdsale campaigns. Qtum started the first day off fast, selling $10 million of its tokens in a mere 90 minutes. By comparison, Ethereum (now the #2 market cap in cryptocurrency with a valuation of $3.6 billion) took 42 days to raise $18 million. The crowdsale, scheduled to last 30 days or until all tokens were sold, ended with the project raising over 11,000 bitcoins and 75,000 ether (ETH) in exchange for the 51 million Qtum tokens being distributed to the public. Instead of sending tokens to a single crowdsale address, Qtum enlisted six cryptocurrency exchanges/crowdfunding portals to conduct the sale in a coordinated fashion. The sites participating in the campaign were Bizhongchou ( bizhongchou.com ), Yunbi ( yunbi.com ), ICOAGE ( icoage.com ), Allcoin ( allcoin.com ), ICO365 ( ico365.com ), and BTC9 ( btc9.com ). Qtum tokens (QTUM) are the cryptogra

In this release: BTCChina, one of the most popular cryptocurrency markets, situated in Hong Kong, refused the commission in trading pair Bitcoin-US Dollar. The BTCC Exchange cancels the commission for trading with a crypto currency. One of the largest exchanges in China has announced a reduction in taxes on trading bitcoin with the US dollar. Crypto-exchange will cease to withdraw commission from users on its international site btcc.com. At the same time on the home site of the BTCC, the commission will remain the same… According to the representative of BTCC, Tendai Musakva, taxes were abolished in order to eliminate competitors and focus on the international activities of the exchange. Tendai Musakva also noted: “Now we are focused on development. And we learn from the experience of those bitcoin-exchanges that have been on the market for quite a long time”. Huge negative profit for cryptocurrency market – this is a result of demands of Hawaii state administration. Coinbase asked

On April 19, Moscow will host a session dedicated to the application of blockchain technologies in the banking sector within annual Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia . It will engage representatives of Sberbank, Alfa Bank and other companies, actively implementing blockchain in business processes. Why Russian bankers are interested in blockchain Early in the year, it has transpired that Sberbank has developed a prototype of currency exchange service using blockchain. It is noted that the system operates perfectly and now the matter depends on the regulation issue. Another project also draws attention: the platform for registering product supply data according to factoring agreements. The project was tested by Sberbank along with M.Video company. The system allows to speed up goods dispatch and making payments: phone conversations and long corresponding are not required any more. In late 2016, the first deal with a letter of credit based on blockchain, technically implement

1. Mysterious Long (March, 10) BTC/USD Before SEC ruling became public knowledge bitcoin surprised us once again by reaching a new all time high and we could all see that mysterious Friday Long. Truth be told that was not exactly a long, it seemed to be a temporary correlation between bitcoin and usd. If we compare Chart 1 and Chart 2 below, we will see that bitcoin price was going up when USD was going down (from Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:30:00 GMT till Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:00:00 GMT). Chart 1.  EUR/USD trading chart –  Source: tradingview.com   Chart 2. Bitcoin price (trades) –  Source: allcointraders.com USD started to fall down after a group of rather negative American market reports came out. While waiting for the SEC ruling cryptocurrency world was silent and the only thing that could influence bitcoin price was market reports, that caused USD fall down. Add obvious speculating activity on bitcoin market and you get a new bitcoin all time high. What experts think about Friday’

PIVX (Private Instant Verified Transaction), formerly known as Darknet offers an upgraded DASH v0.12.0.x clean fork based cryptocurrency with custom Proof of Stake (PoS) code to the community. The open source cryptocurrency platform has replaced the previous Proof of Work (PoW) consensus algorithm to bring private, instant and verified transactions to the masses. Through its latest changes, PIVX has eliminated the dependency on resource intensive hardware for mining, like in the case of other PoW cryptocurrencies. Instead, the community members can earn PIVX by holding on to some tokens in their wallet while keeping it connected to the internet. The platform’s latest PoS 2.0 algorithm allows any device running a PIVX wallet, irrespective of its technical specification or operating system to take part in the staking process and earn rewards. Being a Dash fork, PIVX utilizes Bitcoin Core by default. It uses the current Bitcoin v0.10.x core in combination with some already committed v0

On March 9, Tallinn hosted a large-scale conference dedicated to blockchain technologies and cryptocurrency development – Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Tallinn . The event became the largest platform for blockchain entrepreneurs and developers in the Baltic states. The conference was attended by 250 people from 20 countries. Event organizer is Smile-Expo, the company that holds blockchain conferences in Russia, Ukraine and the Czech Republic. It has decided to enter the Estonian market due to the favorable IT environment of the country and government support of blockchain projects in the Govtech sector. The floor was taken by Jon Matonis, Founding Director at Bitcoin Foundation, Kaspar Korjus, e-Residency Managing Director, Karolina Marzantowicz, Distinguished Engineer at Polish branch of IBM, Kaidi Ruusalepp, Founder of Funderbeam, and 14 more speakers involving crypto experts and managers of blockchain projects. They presented cases on implementation of blockchain into bus

One of the best potential of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Blockchain technology is the ability of completing trading transactions without the need of a third-party. Revolutionizing in-game assets ownership, trading and management. If you have experienced selling or trading an in-game asset/property with someone from across the planet, you may have already realized what sort of risks are involved in doing so. Either party has an equal risk of loss due to non compliance of the other party in doing what was agreed to be done in a sale or trade agreement. The online gaming revolution that is happening now addresses that issue and more. What is this online gaming revolution? It is game assets ownership that is based on the Blockchain. Being spearheaded by Spells of Genesis game which is being developed by EverdreamSoft from Switzerland, Blockchain-based-game-assets are growing in popularity. Why? There are many reasons: The assets can be locked, meaning there will be NO CHANCE to add to the exi

CloakCoin announced today the release of their long awaited Mobile Wallet for all Android devices. The all new CloakCoin Mobile Wallet is the first standalone app integrating the advanced X13 algorithm into CloakCoin’s own dedicated, fully adapted, decentralized Mobile Wallet Server System based on the Electrum Server. As X13 has so far not been available with Electrum, the CloakCoin Dev Team had to integrate this algorithm before being able to use this platform. This new CloakCoin Mobile Wallet will enable all CloakCoin users to do their transactions on their Android smartphones, anytime, anywhere and is the stepping stone for the integration of CloakCoin’s sophisticated ENIGMA transfer system in the near future. It also offers full HD (Hirarchical Deterministic) support allowing full backup and recovery if your smartphone gets lost. The CloakCoin Dev Team has decided to do this standalone app in order to remain independent and have control over all future ideas and project based

Creditbit is a relatively young cryptocurrency, developed on an independent Bitcoin-like Blockchain on December 2015. Despite sharing most of its properties with Bitcoin, CreditBit offered solutions for faster transactions and hybrid Proof of Work/Proof of Stake consensus mechanism. In order to develop this currency and build a whole monetary ecosystem, the currency is being ported to advanced Ethereum Blockchain. The migration process began yesterday, March 8th, 2017. Credit 2.0 , also named Credit2 , is the name of the second CreditBit development roadmap and also parent project of CreditBit Development Team. Main goal of this project is to develop and maintain crypto currency ecosystem, based on token, that is built on top of Ethereum Blockchain. The Project started on January 1st, 2017 with introducing new Dev team. Project is based on open-source and continuous development principles. It consists of several subsidiary projects, ex. CreditMC or CreditGAME. While this project cov

Lykke , a Swiss Fintech company, is building the next-generation trading platform, a semi-decentralized and fair marketplace with equal access for everyone, zero commission and for all kinds of assets and financial instruments. The platform is based on the Colored Coin protocol on blockchain. Semi-decentralized means that the exchange does not take possession of the traded coins, but needs to be trusted to match trades correctly. Lykke has a centralized matching engine and decentralized coins settlement. Still to be able to trade, one should deposit his coins into Lykke exchange whick uses multisignatures mechanism to hold client’s funds. Because of that Lykke can not spend coins without client’s private key. Even if the exchange is compromised and the Lykke’s key is stolen, the client will not lose his coins. The second key is required to spend deposited coins. Lykke exchange also provides refund mechanism to guarantee funds recovery in case of emergency. Lykke market allows buy/sel

The leading Blockchain conference, Blockchain Expo , arrives in Berlin on 1-2 June, offering free registration for the exhibition and over 50 exhibitors to network with. Following on from January’s successful Blockchain Expo in London, which attracted over 1500 people, the Berlin show looks to build on this success. The program for Berlin has been updated, with the Blockchain for Industry track playing host to more case studies and examples of the impact blockchain is having on transforming healthcare, music, real estate and banking industries, to mention but a few. The Blockchain Technologies stage will again showcase some of the most innovative start-ups, as well as featuring investment fund holder panels and more. Featured speakers for Berlin 2017 include: Achim Jedelsky, Head of Processes/IT, Daimler Real Estate Jesus del Valle, Deputy Director. Head, M&S IT Intrapreneurship & Innovation, Bayer Dirk Vollmann, Head of Customer Onboarding, BMW Group Sönke Bartling, S