Blockchain

Play Digital ecosystems deep dive: Developer experience on alternative ledgers - local development 08:10 Sign in to queue Sorry, an error occurred. Description In this episode, we continue our look at the developer experience for other ledgers and take a brief overview into Truffle's beta version for a Corda local…

Public blockchains rely on a combination of cryptography and incentive structures that make a system work without centralized control. Cryptography makes some harmful actions practically impossible, while game theory discourages others. Analysis that focuses on this set of mechanisms is called cryptoeconomics. A properly-structured cryptoeconomic system can determine whether a…

Telegram Hits 400M Monthly Active Users (techcrunch.com) Posted by msmash on Friday April 24, 2020 @02:19PM from the how-about-that dept. Instant messaging service Telegram has amassed 400 million monthly active users, it said today, up from 300 million active users the seven-year-old service disclosed to the SEC last October. From…

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Ripple Sues YouTube Over Cryptocurrency Scam Videos (reuters.com) Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @08:45PM from the call-to-action dept. Blockchain firm Ripple sued YouTube on Tuesday, alleging the video-sharing platform failed to protect consumers from cryptocurrency "giveaway" scams that use fake social media profiles to dupe victims into…

Bad IdeasBad IdeasThis week we're looking at mistakes, missteps, and misconceptions.Many forms of so-called digital money aren’t actually so new or innovative—nor actual ‘money,’ in most cases—and often have a number of key aspects in common. The ways in which they differ may be our best indicators for whether this…

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Zuck's bucks have no luck, for now The Facebook-founded Libra Association has revised its planned digital currency after regulatory concerns and public backlash made the project's initial vision untenable. Libra was introduced last June as a global digital currency, that would be linked to the value of real-world currencies and…

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Image: Planet Entertainment The creator of the Cooking Mama games says it pulled the plug on the latest game, Cooking Mama: Cookstar, over quality concerns. Except the publisher went ahead and released it anyway.Controversy has been swirling around Cooking Mama: Cookstar ever since it temporarily went up for sale on…