International and Public Affairs professor, Ronaldo Lemos, a recent addition to the Stellar Development Foundation, or SDF, said his personal interests align more with industry growth than asset holding or trading. “I’m more into using crypto as a tool to improve public institutions,” Lemos told Cointelegraph when asked about his crypto holdings and trading activities. Lemos has worked with blockchain for governmental use cases The professor detailed a specific example of his blockchain endeavors, which includes working on signature verification via blockchain technology. “I am one of the co-founders…
Month: April 2020
Binance Research Finds Libra Could Rattle Payment Sector Foundations
Binance Research dove into Libra’s most recent whitepaper, surfacing with a lenghty report, in part claiming Facebook’s proposed asset could significantly alter the payments world. “Libra’s envisioned global payment system could do to the payment industry what SpaceX did to the space industry: shake the foundations of a well-established sector with high entry barriers,” the April 22 report said, adding: “The mere advantage of issuing widely-available programmable money would already initiate manifold efficiency gains.” Libra’s outlook after a year of regulatory pushback After releasing its initial whitepaper in June 2019,…
From Facebook Lab to Global Stage: Libra’s Timeline
CoinDesk has been chronicling this saga every step of the way. What follows is a detailed timeline of the Libra project’s history, from the early signs that Mark Zuckerberg’s social network was sniffing around the blockchain industry to Libra’s recent watering-down of its once-bold plans. Bookmark this article, because we’ll keep updating it as the story continues to unfold. Source
Binance Issues ONT-Backed Token For DEX Trading
Growing the library of assets built on its own blockchain, Binance recently issued a new token backed by the crypto asset, Ontology (ONT). Built on Binance’s blockchain and governed by a series of parameters known as BEP2, the new token goes by the name ONT-33D, a Binance spokesperson told Cointelegraph in an email. Tokens are backed by ONT coins Each ONT-33D token holds a backing of one ONT coin, the spokesperson said. In theory, this should keep the token’s price the same as the ONT tokens traded on the open…
Roger Ver Claims His Bitcoin Transaction Fees Totaled $1,000 at Times
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponent, Roger Ver, claims he paid thousands of dollars in Bitcoin (BTC) fees on multiple occasions. “I paid a thousand dollars in fees for a single transaction on the Bitcoin network, more times than I can count,” Ver said in a video posted by Bitcoin Meme Hub on Twitter. Bitcoin forked in 2017, causing a difference in fees and speed Bitcoin’s chain split into Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Cash in 2017, dividing a chunk of the community after disagreements over the asset. Proponents of big blocks wanted…
Further Research Planned for Crypto Code Price Correlation
Economic Data Science Theme researcher, Andrea Baronchelli, told Cointelegraph more research on the topic of crypto code / price correlation may be on the horizon following the recent release of her team’s preprint report. “This is really the first step,” Baronchelli said of the recent preprint report, titled, From code to market: Network of developers and correlated returns of cryptocurrencies. “We plan to look at what happens when multiple developers work on the same two projects, and at the semantics of the edits they make,” he noted, adding: “Our analysis has…
TRX Ledger Live Integration a Mutual Decision, Tron Says
Tron described its recent listing on Ledger wallet’s Ledger Live software as a move for both parties to continue the expansion of the crypto space. “It was in our mutual interest, to further develop and promote the crypto ecosystem,” a Tron representative told Cointelegraph. “The rapid growth in the crypto and blockchain space is evident and the users demand more functions and creative solutions to advance the security, usability, and all-in-one stop.” The addition gives users more options Tron recently saw its proof-of-stake TRX coin added to Ledger Live, the desktop…
More Industry Players Weigh in on Bitcoin’s Path Once Businesses Reopen
Industry players said Bitcoin’s (BTC) price could be impacted once U.S. governing bodies lift COVID-19 prevention measures, such as stay-at-home orders and business closures. “When the world economies begin to recover and come back online after printing, in the case of the U.S. government trillions of dollars, Bitcoin will most likely become more bullish than we’ve ever seen it,” Metal Pay CEO Marshall Hayner told Cointelegraph in a message, adding: “Altcoin markets with solid foundation and utility with strong usage will potentially move beyond previous heights as we will…
More Crypto Development Means More Trading Returns, Findings Say
A new report preprint shows a correlation between crypto asset prices and their code developers. “We reveal that the first coding event linking two cryptocurrencies through a common developer leads to the synchronization of their returns in the following months,” said a preprint research report titled, From code to market: Network of developers and correlated returns of cryptocurrencies. It’s all in the code Destined by their code underpinnings, cryptocurrencies hold internal laws and guidelines concerning a number of aspects, such as security and availability, the beginning of the 37-page report explained. …
Block Lattice Architecture Or Blockchain? DLT or DAG? Europeans Rally on GDPR-Compliant, Open Source, Cross-Border Framework for Phone Application Development
ADVERTISEMENTS A team of close to 130 people from 17 institutes, organisations and companies in Europe is developing a technology that is intended as an alternative to privacy-invading tracking technologies used in some countries in Asia to combat the COVID-19. Top experts from multiple European nations are working on an open-source Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing initiative (PEPP-PT) to provide a complete framework and reference implementation to track and stop the transmission of COVID-19 rapidly and effectively by informing potentially exposed people they are carriers and still adhere to the EU’s…