The DAO is a New Dow (This story has to begin with the big news)
This story has to begin with the big news: the decentralized autonomous organization known The DAO has raised millions worth of ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network, in just a few weeks. If you’ve read The DAO’s whitepaper, you might have managed to understand what it is: blockchain code that emulates the behaviour of a crowdfunding business entity that can fund and earn a return from other blockchain-coded business proposals. The DAO and its valuation will be an effective ether index of the proposals it accepts, much like the Dow is a stock market index. The difference....
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Rather than responding to existing fake news, this solution prevents imposters, a type of fake news story that appears to be from a legitimate news agency. With the United States Presidential Election set for next month, the concern over fake news has once again dominated public discourse. Fake news — the deliberate spreading of verifiably false information under the disguise of being an authentic news story — not only undermines the public’s confidence in the free press, it inflames social conflict, can result in health hazards (like swallowing bleach in an attempt to avoid COVID-19),....
You could spend hours and multiple bitcoins trying to get your news published by the busy and over-caffeinated swarm of crypto journalists out there. Or you could just submit a press release to Bitcoin.com for $99 USD, and rest easy — your news will get published precisely when you want it to be. Whether it’s a new product, an improved service, a....
The Russian "ban" of BTC-e was a hoax. The Volgograd Prosecutor's official website has seemingly issued a retraction of the report it ran yesterday, in which it was claimed that citizens would be blocked from accessing BTC-e. A machine translation of thislatest news on the VolgoProc.ru site reads as follows: 04.02.2014. Note to editors. On the prosecutor's Volgograd Region is hacking. As a result, it was posted on the website the news that a criminal's online resources are untrue. Prior to resolve technical issues, please check the authenticity of the news in the press service of the....
2016 has been a very exciting year, typified by a near constant demand for bitcoin wallets, a near doubling of its global market price, and the Bitcoin halving this past summer. 2017 looks like it can be the Bitcoin’s best year ever, but before we put 2016 into the history books, let’s review where we’ve been this year before we step into Year Nine of the decentralized digital currency age. Feel free to use this as a Bitcoin historical reference for where the community has been, through the years. Here are the top ten most-viewed and shared stories of 2016, not according to us, but....
If the gossip at a recent invite-only bitcoin conference is any indication, news may be forthcoming in the long-simmering Satoshi Nakamoto saga. On the sidelines of the two-day Satoshi Roundtable conference in Cancun, rumors were swirling that new developments in the 'Who is Satoshi?' story once again relate to the controversial Australian academic and entrepreneur Craig Wright, who last May claimed that he – and as many as four others – contributed to the white paper credited to bitcoin's pseudonymous inventor. This time, however, there is said to be a potential twist to the story....