Tuesday, 31 March 2020

Monday, 30 March 2020

Sunday, 29 March 2020

How MakerDAO’s Stablecoin Survived the Crash, Smart Contract Bugs and Full Decentralization

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How do DeFi stablecoins actually work and what happened during the sudden, precipitous drop in crypto prices earlier this month? On today's show Andreas M. Antonopoulos leads us through a very interesting system and how it survived 'Black Thursday'.

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Saturday, 28 March 2020

bitcoincore.org hidden service

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After frequent requests, this site is now reachable as a Tor hidden service through an onion address:

http://6hasakffvppilxgehrswmffqurlcjjjhd76jgvaqmsg6ul25s7t3rzyd.onion/

As well as adding another means of censorship resistance, a hidden service gives an alternative trust path that doesn’t rely on certificate authorities nor DNS infrastructure.



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Friday, 27 March 2020

Thursday, 26 March 2020

Hyperinflation and Zimbabwe’s Multi-Currency Reality: Bitcoin in Africa Podcast, Part 2

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After three weeks of listening, recording and talking bitcoin (BTC) in Africa, podcaster Anita Posch is back in part 2 of her six-part documentary podcast series. Presented in audio and full written transcript formats.

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Wednesday, 25 March 2020

Tuesday, 24 March 2020

8 US States Follow DHS in Naming ‘Blockchain Managers’ as Essential Employees in Coronavirus Crisis

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At least eight U.S. states have directed “blockchain managers” in food and agriculture to keep working through COVID-19 shutdowns following guidance from the Department of Homeland Security, though it remains unclear who this includes.

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‘Digital Dollar’ Stripped From Latest US Coronavirus Relief Bill

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The latest version of a U.S. House bill to stimulate the economy during the coronavirus pandemic no longer includes any language around a digital dollar, though a Financial Services Committee bill still does.

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Monday, 23 March 2020

Sunday, 22 March 2020

Bailouts, Bitcoin, Disruption, Failures and Hope

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From Boeing to Bitcoin in this week's discussion we're talking about our disrupted reality, the politically expedient path forward, why it almost certainly won't work, the alternatives to it, what this means for bitcoin and what you can do to help.

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Saturday, 21 March 2020

Friday, 20 March 2020

ICE Pushes Back on Claim Ex-Bakkt CEO Dumped Stocks After Senate COVID Briefing

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U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler and her husband sold up to $3.5 million in stock after a Jan. 24 briefing on COVID-19, but ICE says the transactions were conducted by financial advisors who had no input from the two.

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Thursday, 19 March 2020

Thousands of These Computers Were Mining Cryptocurrency. Now They’re Working on Coronavirus Research

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CoreWeave, the largest U.S. miner on the Ethereum blockchain, is redirecting the processing power of 6,000 specialized computer chips toward research to find a therapy for the coronavirus. These graphics processing units (GPUs) will be pointed toward Stanford University’s Folding@home, a long-standing research effort that unveiled a project on February 27 specifically to boost coronavirus […]

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Swiss Blockchain Exchange SDX Hires ConsenSys Startup Boss to Head Business

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Tim Grant, formerly the CEO of ConsenSys-backed startup DrumG Technologies, is to become head of business at Swiss blockchain-based stock exchange SDX. SDX, the digital asset trading venue being built from the ground up by Swiss stock exchange operator SIX Group, had been searching for a new leader to take over from interim CEO Thomas […]

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Wednesday, 18 March 2020

Argentina’s Gas Regulator Greenlights Industry Blockchain Built With RSK Tech

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Gasnor, a natural gas distributor for 2 million Argentine residents, has won approval to pilot a smart contract-based platform aimed to speed up the country's chronically slow gas certification processes.

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Tuesday, 17 March 2020

MakerDAO Adds USDC as DeFi Collateral Following ‘Black Thursday’ Chaos

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MakerDAO has added a third asset to its decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, USD Coin (USDC), in response to the system’s flagship stablecoin, dai, continuing to float above its dollar peg. Passed Tuesday at 2:58 UTC, the Coinbase- and Circle-backed USDC is now available for use as collateral on the premiere DeFi platform following an executive […]

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Monday, 16 March 2020

Bitcoin Volume Gains Traction After 24-Hour Roller-Coaster Ride

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Bitcoin prices have been on a roller-coaster ride since Sunday afternoon after the Federal Reserve slashed rates a full percentage point and promised to pump $700 billion into the U.S. economy. But now bitcoin volume is picking up.

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Sunday, 15 March 2020

‘Anything That Can Be Decentralized Will Be Decentralized’ 6 Years Later

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After one of the most challenging weeks in recent memory we're talking about a new consensus driven approach to DeFi oracles and revisiting Johnston's Law (anything that can be decentralized will be decentralized) with the man who coined the phrase so many years ago.

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Saturday, 14 March 2020

Friday, 13 March 2020

Thursday, 12 March 2020

Wednesday, 11 March 2020

The US Needs Hester Peirce’s Safe Harbor, or It Risks Falling Behind

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A Beijing lawyer calls on the SEC to consider Hester Peirce's Safe Harbor proposal, which exempts startups from securities law while starting up. Without greater certainty around token sales, the US risks falling behind other jurisdictions in blockchain commerce.

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Tuesday, 10 March 2020

Bitcoiners in Europe Reflect on Economic Shocks as Coronavirus Spreads

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With assets from oil barrels to bitcoin being pulverized by the coronavirus slowdown, people worldwide are reevaluating their plans for crypto gatherings, especially in geographies where anti-COVID-19 measures are increasingly serious.  In Milan, Italy, which was officially placed in lockdown by the Italian government on Sunday, bitcoin entrepreneur and meetup organizer Mir Liponi is facing […]

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Monday, 9 March 2020

Bitcoin Core 0.19.1

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Bitcoin Core installation binaries can be downloaded from bitcoincore.org and the source-code is available from the Bitcoin Core source repository.

0.19.1 Release Notes

Bitcoin Core version 0.19.1 is now available from:

https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.19.1/

This minor release includes various bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues

To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to:

https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/

How to Upgrade

If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).

Upgrading directly from a version of Bitcoin Core that has reached its EOL is possible, but it might take some time if the datadir needs to be migrated. Old wallet versions of Bitcoin Core are generally supported.

Compatibility

Bitcoin Core is supported and extensively tested on operating systems using the Linux kernel, macOS 10.10+, and Windows 7 and newer. It is not recommended to use Bitcoin Core on unsupported systems.

Bitcoin Core should also work on most other Unix-like systems but is not as frequently tested on them.

From Bitcoin Core 0.17.0 onwards, macOS versions earlier than 10.10 are no longer supported, as Bitcoin Core is now built using Qt 5.9.x which requires macOS 10.10+. Additionally, Bitcoin Core does not yet change appearance when macOS “dark mode” is activated.

In addition to previously supported CPU platforms, this release’s pre-compiled distribution provides binaries for the RISC-V platform.

0.19.1 change log

Wallet

  • #17643 Fix origfee return for bumpfee with feerate arg (instagibbs)
  • #16963 Fix unique_ptr usage in boost::signals2 (promag)
  • #17258 Fix issue with conflicted mempool tx in listsinceblock (adamjonas, mchrostowski)
  • #17924 Bug: IsUsedDestination shouldn’t use key id as script id for ScriptHash (instagibbs)
  • #17621 IsUsedDestination should count any known single-key address (instagibbs)
  • #17843 Reset reused transactions cache (fjahr)

RPC and other APIs

  • #17687 cli: Fix fatal leveldb error when specifying -blockfilterindex=basic twice (brakmic)
  • #17728 require second argument only for scantxoutset start action (achow101)
  • #17445 zmq: Fix due to invalid argument and multiple notifiers (promag)
  • #17524 psbt: handle unspendable psbts (achow101)
  • #17156 psbt: check that various indexes and amounts are within bounds (achow101)

GUI

  • #17427 Fix missing qRegisterMetaType for size_t (hebasto)
  • #17695 disable File->CreateWallet during startup (fanquake)
  • #17634 Fix comparison function signature (hebasto)
  • #18062 Fix unintialized WalletView::progressDialog (promag)

Tests and QA

  • #17416 Appveyor improvement - text file for vcpkg package list (sipsorcery)
  • #17488 fix “bitcoind already running” warnings on macOS (fanquake)
  • #17980 add missing #include to fix compiler errors (kallewoof)

Platform support

  • #17736 Update msvc build for Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 (sipsorcery)
  • #17364 Updates to appveyor config for VS2019 and Qt5.9.8 + msvc project fixes (sipsorcery)
  • #17887 bug-fix macos: give free bytes to F_PREALLOCATE (kallewoof)

Miscellaneous

  • #17897 init: Stop indexes on shutdown after ChainStateFlushed callback (jimpo)
  • #17450 util: Add missing headers to util/fees.cpp (hebasto)
  • #17654 Unbreak build with Boost 1.72.0 (jbeich)
  • #17857 scripts: Fix symbol-check & security-check argument passing (fanquake)
  • #17762 Log to net category for exceptions in ProcessMessages (laanwj)
  • #18100 Update univalue subtree (MarcoFalke)

Credits

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release:

  • Aaron Clauson
  • Adam Jonas
  • Andrew Chow
  • Fabian Jahr
  • fanquake
  • Gregory Sanders
  • Harris
  • Hennadii Stepanov
  • Jan Beich
  • Jim Posen
  • João Barbosa
  • Karl-Johan Alm
  • Luke Dashjr
  • MarcoFalke
  • Michael Chrostowski
  • Russell Yanofsky
  • Wladimir J. van der Laan

As well as to everyone that helped with translations on Transifex.



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Bitcoin Core 0.19.1 Released

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Bitcoin Core version 0.19.1 is now available for download. For a complete list of changes in this maintenance release, please see the release notes.

If have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom (IRC, web) and we’ll do our best to help you.



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Sunday, 8 March 2020

Saturday, 7 March 2020

Leader to Watch: Elena Giralt Talks Zcash and Feminism

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CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by Elena Giralt, the Electric Coin Company’s product marketing associate known for her research on cryptocurrency usage in Latin America, to talk about how digital assets can subvert power dynamics.

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Friday, 6 March 2020

That AlphaPoint $5.6M Funding Round? It’s a Loan

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The recent $5.6 million injection of capital into New York-based AlphaPoint came from bridge financing, a short-term business loan, the company confirmed to CoinDesk. But AlphaPoint would not say who made the loan or its terms.

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Bitcoin’s $9,000 Price Stays Steady as Sentiment Stays Positive

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As global equity markets continue to get pummeled, bitcoin’s return to the $9,000 level may have been driven by some of the same forces causing a rally in bonds — a desire for respite from a coronavirus-plagued markets.  After sharp gains in price Thursday, bitcoin (BTC) has been trading steadily in a range between $9,000 […]

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Gender and Income: Binance US and Stellar CEOs Debunk Myths for International Women’s Day

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There’s a common myth that women are less likely to be interested in bitcoin than men. The reality is people with higher income levels have a greater propensity for cryptocurrency and women still earn significantly less than men.

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Thursday, 5 March 2020

Wednesday, 4 March 2020

After Court Victory, Indian Exchanges Gear Up for Crypto Trading Surge

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Indian Supreme Court’s decision to lift the central bank’s ban on cryptocurrency trading could soon translate into notable growth in trading volumes, according to cryptocurrency exchanges in the country.

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Markets Daily Gets Political: The Post-Trust Election

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Today on Markets Daily we're taking a break from our quick-hit news roundup format for a brief discussion about the U.S. election in the age of bitcoin with CoinDesk features editor Ben Schiller and privacy-beat reporter Benjamin Powers.

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Tuesday, 3 March 2020

India’s Supreme Court Lifts Banking Ban on Crypto Exchanges

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The Supreme Court of India has ruled against a decision imposed by the country’s central bank nearly two years ago that curbed crypto trading in Asia’s third-largest economy. According to a report from Bloomberg, a three-judge bench of the court ruled on Wednesday in favor of petitions by crypto exchanges and startups that opposed the […]

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Klobuchar Wanted a Return to Normalcy, but Do Voters?

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While Trump self-inflated and Bernie talked of revolution, Klobuchar took a middle lane on tech. From election security to privacy to transparency in online ads, Klobuchar was a practical legislator in a chaotic political environment.

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Monday, 2 March 2020

US Treasury Department Blacklists 20 Bitcoin Addresses Tied to Alleged North Korean Hackers

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The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control has added two individuals and 20 bitcoin addresses to its sanctions list, accusing them of being part of the North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group.

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Sunday, 1 March 2020

BIS Paper Reckons With P2P Payments, Tokenized Securities, Central Bank Digital Currencies

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Researchers at the Bank for International Settlements say the future of payments may be peer-to-peer, but a number of considerations must be satisfied before distributed ledger-based systems can go mainstream.

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Coronavirus Impacts on Bitcoin (And the IRS’s Dumb Singularity)

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Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine discuss coronavirus and its potential impacts or disruptions to the decentralized world of bitcoin. Plus a humorous look at the IRS's challenges as it lumps together bitcoin and... Ro-Bux?

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