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ForkLog 1032 18.07.2016

The Brief History of Bitcoin Mining: How It All Started

The week after bitcoin mining reward halving, ForkLog decided to compile a short overview on the history of mining methods.

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ForkLog 72 14.07.2016

Russia’s Party of Growth Leader Says Blockchain Means Living without Lies

Boris Titov, the Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs’ Rights in Russia, insists his country should take advantages of the struggling economic situation in the country by becoming one of the leading nations in the blockchain space.

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ForkLog 110 04.07.2016

Who Wants to Be the Second: New Litecoin Roadmap Published

Litecoin Association has published a roadmap for Litecoin’s further evolution, which includes, among other things, new client software, enhanced protocol, and consolidation of various management and communication structures.

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ForkLog 40 18.06.2016

Head of Post Bank Believes Government Will Inevitably Lose Control Over Money Transactions

Speaking at Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, Dmitry Rudenko, Head of Russia-based PostBank, stated that the development of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies is profitable for Russia due to its infrastructure and nature features.

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ForkLog 79 14.06.2016

Meanwhile in Asia: Cryptotechnologies and Economies

Cryptoeconomy becomes more and more entwined with the traditional one. Beginning as a crypto-anarchist utopia, the ecosystem keeps on evolving, and currently it starts influencing what happens in the big financial world. In this brief overview, we’ll attempt to show how it happens in Asia.

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ForkLog 29 28.05.2016

Russia May Introduce a National Cryptocurrency

According to Kommersant, a Russian news outlet, local officials are discussing introduction of a national cryptocurrency. The idea circulates across the Ministry of finance and the Central Bank, with some representatives of private banks involved.

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ForkLog 87 24.05.2016

Bitcoin Is Not Illegal: Summary of Ukraine’s Bitcoin Regulation Roundtable

A roundtable on Bitcoin’s legal status in Ukraine was held on May 19 in the country’s capital of Kyiv.

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ForkLog 37 23.05.2016

Head of Sberbank Predicts Devolution of Russia Should It Ban Bitcoin

German Gref, head of Russia’s biggest state-owned bank Sberbank, said that penalizing Bitcoin in Russia will result in blockchain development’s halting and regress of the country in general.

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ForkLog 58 26.04.2016

A Different View on Ethereum: Interview with Expanse Team

Ethereum’s amazing underlying concept, serious media coverage of the platform and price surge of Ethereum’s native token ETH couldn’t remain unnoticed. Ethereum, just like Bitcoin, now has its own clones, or, in simple terms, forks. One of such forks is blockchain system Expanse launched without any ICO as a decentralized autonomous organization. Expanse has been […]

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ForkLog 105 21.04.2016

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Transactions in Dash (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Dash transactions use two e-wallets with digital signatures ensuring security. Similar to Bitcoin’s, Dash’s transactions are public, and their history may be traced down to the first minted coins.

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ForkLog 200 19.04.2016

Waves Developers Present First Version of Testnet

Blockchain platform Waves has presented a testnet so that investors and other supporters could access the system’s prototype. Moreover, the release would enable investors to participate in development, for instance, by providing their feedback which is of utmost importance at early stages of any project. “Functionality is currently limited, but what we have seems to […]

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ForkLog 100 18.04.2016

ASIC Mining Makes It to Dash

Two China-based manufacturers, DualMiner and Pinidea, announced they had developed first ASIC chips for mining of Dash. The ASICs generate enormous hash rate, so the network becomes less attack-prone.

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