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ForkLog 100 13.04.2017

Code Is No Law, Law Is No Code

The feature was written by Alexander Boldachev, a philosopher, the member of Russia’s Futurology Association, and eGaaS analyst exclusively for ForkLog.

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Krzysztof Shpak 473 23.01.2017

What is ERC-20?

1 What is ERC-20? ERC stands for Ethereum Request for Comments. It’s the official protocol for proposing improvements to the Ethereum network. 20 stands for the number of the proposal. Technical specifications for tokens issued on Ethereum have been published in 2015. The tokens that meet those specifications are called ERC-20. In fact, they are […]

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ForkLog 121 22.09.2016

DayLight Team to Create a Blockchainized State

Attempts to resolve governance issues with blockchain technology are becoming more frequent these days; however, practical implementation examples are scarce in this regard. Recently launched blockchain platform DayLight is another ambitious project exploring new paths in this area, and hopefully it could arrive at something bigger.

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ForkLog 96 18.09.2016

Ambisafe CEO: Mining Industry May Sink Into Oblivion After the PoS Switch

Andrey Zamovsky, Ambisafe CEO and InChain team member, will be moderating the development section of the Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Kiev 2016, a major event to be held September 23.

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ForkLog 81 13.09.2016

Ethereum Smart Contracts and Insurance: Problems and Solutions

In his recent blog post on Medium Andrei Zamovsky, CEO and developer of Ambisafe, a company that has recently joined blockchain insurance platform Inchain, explains the operation of oracles in Ethereum, as well as their employment in insurance of events beyond blockchain.

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ForkLog 99 10.09.2016

Revolt of the Drones: From Radio Control to Ethereum Smart Contracts

Back In the 1980’s, Oscar-winning film director James Cameron predicted that by the year 2017 the Earth will be in ruins swarming with homicidal robots. Fortunately, this didn’t turn out to be true, at least for now. But what is actually going on with the robots today?

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ForkLog 92 31.08.2016

InChain Set to Provide Assets Insurance at Cryptocurrency Exchanges

The idea of creating an insurance platform for the cryptocurrency industry has been on the front burner for a while. There are plenty of stories telling how blockchain and bitcoin related projects fail because of hackers, insufficient security or simply human errors. All these factors impede the industry’s development, scare people away, and cause mass […]

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ForkLog 74 11.06.2016

Bitcoin Minimalism: Counterparty to Talk with Bitcoin in Ethereish

June 8, Ruben De Vries, one of developers of decentralized finance tools platform Counterparty has announced that testing the company’s new protocol for smart contracts, EVMParty, has successfully kicked off.

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ForkLog 100 20.04.2016

How Bitcoin and Ethereum’s Smart Contracts Work in IT Jurisprudence

The bitcoin ecosystem is becoming the place for many financial startups. Still, finance is highly regulated field, so some legal firms try to catch the zeitgeist of 2016. ForkLog talked with the founder of law firm lexnet.io, Valentin Pivovarov to find out how jurisprudence keeps up with the times and why it’s great. What the […]

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ForkLog 177 14.12.2015

Ethereum-based Platform Develops a Smart Contract System for Drones

AIRA developers announced their projects for drone controlling with smart contracts in Ethereum network. The system allows a human to hire a drone for a job. The robot would act as an autonomous agent executing the contract on its own accord, and would receive payments for the rendered services.

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ForkLog 104 20.11.2015

A Smart House Requires Relevant Contracts

In the year of 2015 one would hardly be surprised to hear “smart house”. Almost everyone knows that it refers to some electronic components incorporated in the infrastructure of an appartment, a house, or an office. They are to make our lives more cost effective, eco-friendly, convenient, and safe.

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ForkLog 48 26.10.2015

Smart Contract App’s philosophy

Recently we mentioned the things that hinder smart contracts from becoming our daily routine. Certainly, no smart contract can exist outside of its environment, where it can be created, verified, and performed. Certainly, Ethereum is a basic component thereof; however, a comprehensive environment shall include an interface for user interaction.

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