Decentralized Prediction Market Augur Reaches XCS Finals in ‘Breakthrough’ Category
Augur, the decentralized prediction market, made it to the finals of the Exponential Finance 2015 competition, taking place at the Conrad Hotel in Battery Park City in NYC on June 2 and 3. CNBC and the think tank Singularity U team up every year for Exponential Finance, a conference that explores ways emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and crowdfunding are shaking up the financial world. Augur placed as one of five finalists in the “breakthrough” category of the XCS Challenge. “It’s an honor and very exciting to be selected as a finalist in the Breakthrough category of....
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Augur, a decentralized platform allowing individuals to create prediction markets on a vast array of topics, announced today that it was launching its alpha test."Traditionally, prediction markets have fallen short due to their need for volume in order to be valuable forecasting tools," explained Jeremy Gardner, the Director of Operations at Augur. "Having a global, unstoppable, blockchain-based prediction markets platform means anyone in the world with internet can connect to Augur."However, Augur is not, itself, a prediction market. Rather, it is open-source code for a prediction markets....
We recently caught up with Tony Sakich of Augur - here's what he had to say... First of all, tells little bit about what Augur is all about. Augur is a decentralized prediction market platform, the end result will be to change the manner information consensus is collected and aggregated. The bitcoin space is growing fast, where do you see Augur fitting into the overall infrastructure? Our goal it so supplement existing prediction markets with one that is decentralized which will increase the quality of potential outcomes. Is there anybody at the company that are users may be interested to....
Augur strives to bring prediction markets into the future. The tool, which Director of Operations Jeremy Gardner and Core Developer Joey Krug hope to make prediction markets more accurate than ever, comes with great precedent. But Augur believes, with the power of decentralization and open source technologies, theirs' is truly a paradigm shifting project. The decentralized prediction market has been gaining notoriety in recent months, and was even considered a finalist for the biggest breakthrough technology as voted upon by Singularity University at the Exponential Finance Conference for....
Decentralized prediction market Augur has just launched its beta testing platform. The trial will be open to anyone, and its team of developers is asking for feedback from users. On its blog, the company explains it has “overhauled” its User Interface (UI) and “fine-tuned” the smart contracts “so that Augur will scale painlessly to billions in volume.”....
The prediction market Augur that runs on top of the Ethereum blockchain has just announced a partnership with the security and wallet service Airbitz. Augur will utilize the Airbitz Edge Security Platform making the prediction market more accessible to the mainstream with user-friendly encryption that protects private keys. Edge Security Will Benefit....