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ForkLog 10 11.08.2020

Blockstack to transfer $27 million worth of tokens to the Stacks Foundation to bolster decentralisation

The blockchain startup Blockstack will provide the Stacks Foundation with 100 million STX tokens to bolster network decentralisation. The company hopes this will help it emerge from under the SEC's oversight.

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Krzysztof Shpak 1146 09.07.2020

NEAR Co-Founder: Bitcoin’s Level of Security Isn’t Necessary for Most Blockchain Use Cases

Now a world-class developer living in Silicon Valley, NEAR co-founder Alexander Skidanov went a long way from a young programming-inclined student from Izhevsk, Russia.

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Krzysztof Shpak 696 08.07.2020

Voice Social Media App Goes Live, Dan Larimer Shares Glimpse of New World Order

Block.one, the company behind EOS project, has finally launched the Voice social network on July 4, the platform’s CEO Salah Zalatimo announced.

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Krzysztof Shpak 795 29.06.2020

Blockstack’s Muneeb Ali: Bitcoin as the Most Secure Blockchain Will Be the Best Foundational Layer for Web 3.0

The upcoming launch of Stacks 2.0, the major protocol release that will allow blockchain developers and miners to participate in the deployment of an innovative new consensus mechanism, dubbed Proof of Transfer (PoX), is arguably the biggest milestone so far for the New York-based Blockstack.

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Krzysztof Shpak 2000 21.06.2020

How Binance Hides Its Legal Structure From Users and Regulators

Binance exchange took off in 2017. In a few months’ time, it became one of the leading platforms by trading volume. By now, it’s got a multitude of new services and clients all over the world.

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Krzysztof Shpak 1338 17.06.2020

Emin Gün Sirer Reveals Fundamentals of a Perfect Blockchain. PoW Mining Is Not Included

Emin Gün Sirer, associate professor of computer science at Cornell University and an early proponent of Bitcoin, is known as the creator of several important scaling solutions, including Bitcoin-NG.

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Krzysztof Shpak 947 03.06.2020

Mastodon Review: Federation of Bubbles

Twitter is 14 years old. And many people start seeing it for an enfant terrible it is. Some see the purple hair and pronouns in the bio, others see trolls and racists everywhere. And this makes people mad.

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Krzysztof Shpak 602 29.05.2020

NewTON Blockchain Launched Test Network, Building Upon TON’s Original Source Code

A group of 30 independent developers launched the test network for NewTON Blockchain, one of the projects aiming to continue the cause of Telegram’s TON project after the conflict with the SEC. One of the developers behind NewTON, Anatoly, shared some details about the project with ForkLog.

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Krzysztof Shpak 515 28.05.2020

TON Developers Pushed Final Code Updates, Now It’s Up to Community

Telegram Open Network developers have rolled out a few final updates to the source code and will no longer actively participate in the project. The announcements came on May 24th via TON’s test portal page.

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Krzysztof Shpak 854 15.05.2020

Searching for Search Engine and Post-Google Dream

Numbers strongly suggest that for the last several years people have been doing a lot of googling and really not much of binging, yahooing, and even baiduing in comparison. When it comes to certain alternative solutions like DuckDuckGo, there’s even more ground to gain. And there are reasons to want these leftfield solutions gaining ground, […]

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Krzysztof Shpak 1421 07.05.2020

After Telegram’s Lost Battle with SEC, TON Launched Now Under Slightly Different Name

TON developers, major PoS validators, and community enthusiasts have announced the launch of Free TON powered by the native token TON Crystal in a declaration.

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Krzysztof Shpak 557 01.05.2020

Extra Surveillance May Stay After the Corona-crisis Is Gone, But Privacy Can Still Be Protected

In his online presentation, Stepan Gershuni, Bitcoin evangelist and the CEO of Credentia, talked about real technologies that may help avert a dystopian privacy crisis. This is the adaptation of the Russian-language talk from ForkLog’s Digital Middle Ages online conference.

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