Augur Returns To Exponential Finance Conference
Augur is one of those companies which has been getting a lot of positive attention over the past year, thanks to their prediction market business model. Just last year, the company was named a Breakthrough Finalist at the Exponential Finance Conference, and this year, the company will be making a return as part of the event’s innovation lab. Companies active in the world of digital currency and blockchain technology always have their hands full with working on new projects or improving existing services. Augur is no exception in that regard, as their prediction market business model is....
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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....
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....
Augur, a fully-decentralized, open-source prediction market platform based on blockchain technology, intended to revolutionize forecasting, decision-making and the manner in which information consensus is collected and aggregated, has been selected as one of the five finalists in the "Breakthrough" category at the XCS Challenge at Exponential Finance 2015. The Singularity University and CNBC hosted the Exponential Finance 2015 conference (New York, 2-3 June), which examines how rapidly accelerating technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, crowdfunding, digital....
There is even more positive news for Augur, as the team will be attending the CNBC & Singularity U’s Exponential Finance Innovation Lab on June 7-8. Airbitz and Augur are partnering up to deploy the Airbitz Edge Security Platform. What makes this new service so valuable is how it offers a secure account creation process for end-users. Additionally, encryption, backups, and synchronization across all devices will be part of this solution as well. A Mainstream Audience for Augur. But there’s more to the Airbitz Edge Security Platform, as it will allow users to use decentralized....
A third of the stolen REP from the account of Bo Shen has been recovered according to Augur Co-Founder Jack Peterson, and he thinks more of the stolen tokens could still be retrieved as they continue to work with exchanges. An account belonging to Shen, one of the early investors in Ethereum and Augur, was reportedly hacked last Tuesday causing the Poloniex Augur market to bottom at the price level of 0.0001 BTC for one REP, despite the average price of 0.0035 in the previous period. The hacked wallet was a top 20 wallet by size in Augur and constituted a significant percent of the total....