Monero Fees Fall to Almost Zero After 'Bulletproofs' Upgrade
Monero's "bulletproofs" hard fork has led to a major reduction in transaction fees.
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Oct 22, 2018 at 8:00 a.m. UTC
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Monero to Become First Billion-Dollar Crypto to Implement 'Bulletproofs' Tech
A highly anticipated technology designed to make blockchain privacy features more scalable will be tested on Monero soon.
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Oct 17, 2018 at 7:59 a.m. UTC
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How a Left-for-Dead, $0.22 Crypto Asset Became a Lifeline for Activists
A tiny cryptocurrency named faircoin is providing an underground economy across the world.
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Oct 15, 2018 at 4:00 a.m. UTC
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A War-Torn Country in Syria Will Use Crypto to Power an Anarchist State
A region in Northern Syria called Rojava is looking to use cryptocurrency to overcome economic sanctions and even redesign its society.
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Oct 11, 2018 at 12:05 a.m. UTC
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A Solution to Crypto's 51% Attack? Fine Miners Before It Happens
After losing money during a 51 percent attack earlier this year, crypto project Horizen claims to have a solution to crypto's famed vulnerability.
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Oct 10, 2018 at 12:59 p.m. UTC
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A Multi-Million Dollar Bet Ethereum's Proof-of-Stake Isn't Coming Soon
One of the top crypto ASIC chip makers is betting big ethereum's biggest plans might not come to pass.
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Oct 4, 2018 at 11:00 p.m. UTC
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Kill Switch Engage: Sia Cryptocurrency to Block Bitmain and Other Big Miners
After months of debate, Siacoin's founder is announcing a fork. That's good news for his other project, which will have the coin's only working ASICs.
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Oct 1, 2018 at 4:00 p.m. UTC
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Ethereum Startup Parity Adds Casper Code to Custom Blockchain Toolbox
Parity Technologies has added an early version of ethereum's hotly anticipated Casper code change to its blockchain development platform, Substrate.
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Oct 1, 2018 at 3:30 p.m. UTC
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One Musician's Creative Solution to Drive ASICs Off Monero
Howard Chu, a monero core dev and musician, has created an algorithm that he thinks will keep ASICS at bay on the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency.
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Sep 29, 2018 at 9:45 a.m. UTC
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'500 Transactions a Second': Vitalik Says Zk-Snarks Could Scale Ethereum
A form of cryptography pioneered by zcash might help scale ethereum "by a huge amount," says founder Vitalik Buterin.
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Sep 24, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. UTC
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