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#blockchain Week NYC 2019 Guide[Upcoming Event Highlights]
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Blockchain Week NYC 2019 Guide [Upcoming Event Highlights]Welcome to the second NYC Blockchain Week! Last year we got tremendous positive feedback for compiling this guide, so here we are again helping you navigate 2019 NYC Blockchain Week.New York City Blockchain Week runs from May 10th to May 18th with hundreds of events drawing people from around the world to share in the exploration of new innovations. It is a rare opportunity to meet global blockchain leaders with dozens of events being held to this aim.With so many events happening at once, which ones are worth checking out? Where do you go? Who do you see? We’ve compiled the best events and sorted them by price.If you can’t swing 2k for the Consensus, there are many other great options. Or if you’re visiting for Consensus, but would (...)

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Secure Proof of Stake in #blockchain, Explained
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Secure Proof of Stake in Blockchain: ExplainedProof of Stake consensus mechanism states that a person can either mine or validate block transactions in accordance with how many coins he or she possesses. Now, this implies that the more bitcoin or altcoins are owned by a miner, the more mining power he or she has.The first digital currency to adopt this method of Proof of Stake was Peercoin.Let’s discuss this in detailWhat Exactly is Proof of Stake?The Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm was first introduced back in 2011 on the Bitcointalk forum aimed to solve the issues of the most popular algorithm in use — Proof of Work.Where both the algorithms share the same goal of reaching consensus in the blockchain, the process to reach this goal in for both is all different.How Does This (...)

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Where are all my #blockchain Ladies, at?
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(Past assignment for an ICO)Photo Source: ▻https://cryptocoin.news/news/30-of-the-most-innovative-and-exciting-women-to-watch-for-blockchain-and-crypto-insights-5200/amp/Every morning I enjoy my morning coffee with my Blockchain Sisters. We laugh, share, cry and pass around positive memes like the “Boss Babes”, we are! (#GirlBoss)On a unique Sunday during brunch, a few of us shared our daily “Words of Affirmation” but we decided to become more philosophical than usual. I was playing “reporter” that weekend, as I asked to highlight the issues women in blockchain are facing. I’m not really a know-it-all, so I asked the REAL experts for their opinions.I was saddened as some of the most recognizable names in crypto had surprising answers. All successful tech gals, my friends and I pondered why (...)

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#blockchain Smart Cities Rating — From Melaka Straits City to #crypto Project in Nevada Desert
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Blockchain Smart Cities Rating — From Melaka Straits City to Crypto Project in Nevada DesertThe agiotage around blockchain technology has reduced dramatically. But now it’s time for technology adoption in real life. Imagine a city, where payments for goods and services, data exchange between municipal institutions, work of transport and infrastructure projects — almost everything in based on blockchain technology. You think such kind of mass adoption looks like a fairy tale? But this is actually a reality or something that will be a reality in the very near future.I decided to create a short list of the most promising smart city projects based on blockchain, which are already running or are about to be launched. The list includes those projects that are not just developing a technological (...)

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Genericide : Trademarking “Blockchain”
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By charles adjovu, Ledgerback, and Alex RFederally Registered Trademark SymbolTrademarks are an often overlooked topic that have a substantial impact on the viability and social well-being of #blockchain communities.In “Collective Trademarks for Blockchain Communities,” we discussed the NIFTY trademark incident that occurred in August 2018, and proposed how blockchain communities can prevent future incidents by by applying for federal registration of collective trademarks (membership or trade/servicemark).In this article, we analyze two types of trademark-ineligible marks, generic marks and merely descriptive marks, because both arose during the NIFTY incident and are prevalent in the blockchain industry. Understanding these terms leads to greater certainty, fewer costs, and, hence, more (...)

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EthVM: First Open-Source Block Explorer Powered by Kafka
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Implementing the Apache Kafka ecosystem for processing #ethereum #blockchain dataIn the decade since Bitcoin introduced the world to cryptocurrencies, the industry has evolved in ways that perhaps even Satoshi could not envision. The Ethereum blockchain, which emerged in July 2015, opened a new world of possibilities thanks to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) — an environment for developing and executing smart contracts.The EVM enabled the Ethereum network to be something more than a repository for a history of monetary transactions — it was an ecosystem that invited exploration, interaction and collaborative innovation.Continuing the MEW (MyEtherWallet) legacy of open-source products that empower both users and developers to explore the possibilities of blockchain, we introduce EthVM: the (...)

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#blockchain a buzz around #bitcoin
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Image by TheConversationThere is a buzz around the word Bitcoin in recent times and people think that bitcoin is blockchain and blockchain is bitcoin. Here I am going to talk about some open source communities who now have pioneered on the word BLOCKCHAIN and have proved to the world that BITCOIN is not the only BLOCKCHAIN.Image by G2crowdNakamoto’s paper on A peer-to-peer Electronic Cash System introduced to the world the concept of Blockchain. Blockchain came into existence for bitcoin and started the race to mine bitcoins to earn incentives.On the other hand, industries also started looking into blockchain technology as a boon and how they can use it to solve the problems they are facing. Blockchain-based technologies had shown the software industry a new way to build an application (...)

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New Episodes of the Hacker Noon Podcast
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Paris Blockchain Week, Tokenized Equity and Solving Problems in the Tech CommunityThe Hacker Noon Podcast recently interviewed Frontend Developer Pariss Athena, Karim Sabba from Paris Blockchain Week, and Josh Stein from Harbor.Solving Problems in the Tech Community with Pariss Athena of BlackTechTwitter & BTPipeline PlatformFrance In the Blockchain Ecosystem: Learn About Paris Blockchain WeekToday’s show would not be possible without Digital Ocean.Tokenized Equity with Josh Stein from HarborDon’t Forget to Subscribe to the Hacker Noon Podcast. Available on iTunes, Google Podcast, and YouTube.And lastly, stay up to date with Hacker Noon as we launch 2.0 from scratch via this form.New Episodes of the Hacker Noon Podcast was originally published in Hacker Noon on Medium, where people are (...)

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TRON’s New Sun Network Highlights the Pivotal Role of Sidechain #technology
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Tron (TRX) is again announcing a series of development upgrades to make the Tron network more scalable. The reason for this need for scalability lays in the increased usage of DApps.A DApp is an abbreviation for a decentralized application. For most users, the application will look and feel the same as a normal application you can find in the App Store or Google PlayStore, however, the app is built on top of #blockchain infrastructure.This means that the business logic (backend code) is running on all nodes within a decentralized peer-to-peer network. Another variant to this concept is a frontend application which makes calls to a smart contract running on the p2p network. It is even possible to take this one step further and host the frontend code on decentralized storage such as Swarm (...)

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#blockchain And Entertprises — A Match Made In Heaven
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Blockchain And Entertprises — A Match Made In HeavenAs the world becomes increasingly digital, do not be surprised when you see more and more businesses upgrade their databases to a blockchain architecture. Not only is this nascent technology more efficient and secure than traditional data storage methods, but it is also faster and better for scaling, often allowing the latency of a network to fall several times while the transaction throughput increases.There are several existing blockchain infrastructure protocols geared toward businesses — from public chains like Ethereum to private blockchains like GoChain, R3 Corda, and Hyperledger Fabric. However, not all of these blockchains have the specs that businesses need to build their programs and platforms. As a matter of fact, when EventChain (...)

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Masterode/Proof-of-Stake: an overview of a new consensus protocol
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Masterode/Proof-of-Stake: An overview of A New Consensus ProtocolTo the general public, #blockchain networks like Ethereum sometime seem like a magical alternative to traditional payment systems: phrases like “free transactions” and “instant payments” are common. The reality is far less glamorous: Blockchains can be very slow, and transactions are far from free. However, a novel consensus mechanism known as MpoS might offer a promising solution.Ethereum WoesEthereum’s introduction of smart contracts marked a revolution in the minds of the startup community: Now anyone could create and crowdfund an innovative project without dealing with venture funds, could accept and send money without banks, and could conclude risk-free deals. Indeed, a smart contract — a program that self-executes (...)

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Know The Coin: Interview with Refereum Founder Dylan Jones
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Know The Coin: Interview with Dylan JonesHey there, and welcome to another episode of ChangeNOW’s Know The Coin show! Today’s guest is Dylan Jones, a founder and CEO of Refereum, a #gaming community platform based in San Francisco, that brings together gamers and #blockchain users alike!It’s a pleasure to be here, thank you so much for your time and for listeners to hear about us.Could you please tell our listeners a little bit about yourself and your background? How did you get to #crypto world and was Refereum your first crypto experience?I come from pretty long career in video gaming for spanning about 10 years. I have done basically everything: Facebook games, mobile games, worked on some platforms and analytic systems, done some marketing in game industry. Everyone from our team came from (...)

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Reasons For Increase In The Demand for Cryptocurrency Exchange Developers in 2019
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With the world panning towards digital aspects, people need to be on familiar terms with it. Cryptocurrency trading is one of the current aspects of currency that people are using these days. A particular form of digital currency, it is being used all over the world. The world saw the rise of cryptocurrency a while back. However, with time, that rise didn’t last for long.There was a decline in the trends of cryptocurrency. But now the time has come when cryptocurrency is again going to gain some popularity. This will ultimately result in the increase of the value of cryptocurrency developers.Understanding A Litter Bit About CryptocurrencyCryptocurrency is the new form of currency which most of the countries are using these days. And it is getting all the attention and popularity that it (...)

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Problems with #blockchain Technology
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Niggling Problems with Blockchain TechnologyBlockchain technology has become one of the biggest buzzwords not only in the field of finance but also in technology. Blockchain proponents believe that the technology will revolutionize financial services as it functions without a central authority. The technology also stores data in a tamper-proof way which is an additional advantage of the technology. It is believed that the emerging blockchain technology will be beneficial for a number of industries beyond finance and technology, particularly for the industries which have to keep a huge trail of paper records such as healthcare, law, and real estate.Though there are numerous benefits of the blockchain technology slow transaction speed and lack of standardization have slowed down the (...)

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Going to Atlantis : #ethereum Classic (ETC) ECIP-1054 Hard Fork
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The Definitive Guide to Ethereum Classic’s Next Hard ForkThe Atlantis ECIP-1054 Hard Fork has been announced with great reception amongst the stakeholders in the ETC ecosystem. The proposed changes will “Enable the outstanding Ethereum Foundation Spurious Dragon and Byzantium network protocol upgrades on the Ethereum Classic network in a hard-fork code-named Atlantis to enable maximum compatibility across these networks.”You can find the Hard Fork proposal on ETC Labs Core Github:etclabscore/ECIPsThe team is available for questions and further discussion on the ETC Labs Core Discord server.The Hard Fork is targetted for block8_750_000 on the Ethereum Classic mainnet, expected some time in mid-September 2019After this Hard Fork, the Ethereum Classic network will benefit from:A more (...)

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#pewdiepie leaves #youtube to Stream Exclusively on #blockchain
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The no 1 most subscribed youtuber, Pewdiepie, announces that he will exclusively stream on #dlive, a video streaming site running on blockchain. On April 9th, both he and Dlive announced via youtube and twitter that the partnership will commence with the first stream set for April 14th.Youtube is starting to realise they aren’t the only person in the room anymore. For many years they have had the monopoly on the video sharing industry online. In November 2006, youtube became a subsidiary of google further consolidating the stronghold of the internet giants. We have seen time and time again, anyone who becomes successful and could be seen as a competitor is either shut down or bought out by groups like google and amazon. No longer will this occur with such a crippling effect.With the (...)

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Retail or venture capital investment?
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What’s best for a startup? The Loyakk caseContinue reading on Hacker Noon »

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How will Decent use #blockchain?
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If you were reinventing health insurance, how would you do it?Maybe you and your friends would put money in a shared account for a year. Anyone who needed #healthcare could take some out. If money was left at the end of the year, you might each take a share, or just leave it in for next year.Now imagine that a few of you went skiing. Remarkably, you all fell and hurt yourselves and needed MRIs. Your friends went to hospitals that charged $2000, and they each took $2000 out of the account. You went to a top-rated imaging center that only charged you $1000, and better yet, they said they’d offer the same deal to everyone else with your “insurance.”What if you took $1000 out of the account to pay for your MRI, and also got to keep a portion of what you saved the group — say $200 — for finding (...)

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What are Token Curated Registries and decentralized #lists?
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In 2017, the Shed at Dulwich became TripAdvisor’s top-rated restaurant in London in just a matter of months.Interestingly, the restaurant never really existed until it hit the first spot.What happened?Courtesy of ViceThe Shed’s founder, Oobah Butler, managed to increase his fake restaurant’s rank from #18,000 to #1 in 6 months, all of that without serving a single dish.How did the Shed at Dulwich manage to trick TripAdvisor?Paid, fake reviews and an online presence.Because TripAdvisor ranks restaurants on the basis of community reviews, Oobah paid fake users to rate the Shed on the platform, while constantly declining table bookings from prospects.To top off the genius stunt, he took pictures of his right foot, disguised it as ham hock and served frozen dinners to his clients on the opening (...)

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France in the #blockchain Ecosystem with Karim Sabba from #paris Blockchain Week
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Episode 35 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Karim Sabba, French entrepreneur and founder of Paris Blockchain Week. Paris Blockchain Week is April 16–17, 2019 in Paris, France, Use code: HACKERNOON30 for a 30% discount.Listen to the interview on iTunes, or Google Podcast, or watch on YouTube.▻https://medium.com/media/fc1d92a51507e9eca88d7af519edd8e9/hrefIn this episode Trent Lapinski interviews Karim Sabba, French entrepreneur and founder of Paris Blockchain Week.“I jumped into this new ecosystem where I saw returns that I had never seen in my life. And that was what caught me in. That was the bait, and it was a good bait. But afterwards I started to dive into all those projects and I remember, I don’t want to name it because my apprehension of this was a bit weird, but (...)

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Why Industry Leaders Should Leverage #blockchain to Bring #energy Forward
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Energy BlockchainA growing number of industries are beginning to embrace disruptive technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrency. Energy companies that commit to this change will benefit from a enhanced efficiency and transparency.In our current climate, blockchain goes hand in hand with disruptive tech companies and solutions like cryptocurrency. However, we’re seeing a number of other industries — specifically those that are slow to evolve — integrate this technology into their operations.Leading energy traders and banks recently launched a new digital platform in which blockchain facilitates crude oil trading, with more energy-specific use cases possibly on the horizon. While technological advances in this sector aren’t rare, the industry’s largest players typically anchor their (...)

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#internet vs Blockchain Revolution: Are we in 1994? What to expect Next? (Part 5)
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This article is part of the Internet vs Blockchain Revolution Series. If you are interested in reading the other articles, check out this post.Internet vs Blockchain Revolution: the evolution of the market, infrastructures, and companiesAre we in 1994?Interestingly, when Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, found himself in Silicon Valley in early 1994, he thought that he was too late and missed the whole thing as the short recession of 1990–1991 hit the #technology industry hard. The current stage of blockchain and #cryptocurrency development is most analogous to the Internet Revolution in 1994, in which we have invented TCP/IP, HTML, and FTP, and out of these will lead to the development of Netscape (1994) and much later Facebook (2004), and Airbnb (2008). In blockchain, we are (...)

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Four Massive-Scale #blockchain Pilots
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Car trunks, tuna, smart factories and energy from the breweryWhat do Porsche, Bosch, WWF and Berlin’s largest gas vendor GASAG have in common? They all launched pilot projects in collaboration with blockchain startups. Find out their project descriptions and key learnings from their projects in the article below.1. Bait to plateWWF & Viant.io (started in January 2017)▻https://medium.com/media/86dbf71db68cc06151c0e12b3df36298/hrefWWF and Viant.io (a ConsenSys company) worked together on a track & trace use case for more transparent tuna fishing.Current project state: Production, live in marketNext project stage: Releasing transparency, traceability, tradability platforms that are more use case specific.Support by WWF: WWF supported the capital investment in the project while also (...)

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Three months into 2019, what’s the news in #crypto?
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The prolonged “crypto winter” combined with the numerous #ico exit scams were a significant body blow to the #blockchain-crypto space. But 2019 shows promise, with that let’s look at some of the significant market trends.ICO Landscape: ICOs take a deadly blowOverall the number of ICOs have dropped dramatically the world over, despite the efforts of some countries to create a conducive environment for launching an ICO. During Q1 of 2019, the number of ICOs fell by 61% when compared to Q4 of 2018.Funds raised ($MM) country-wisesourceIn terms of funds raised companies from countries such as the UAE and Cayman Islands have leapfrogged ahead of the usual suspects like UK and Singapore. UAE and Cayman Island companies attracted $142 million and $100 million respectively and accounted for 21% and (...)

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How #ethereum Is Very Likely To Become A Leading #blockchain Platform
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▻https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2018/09/07/09/10/ethereum-3660218_960_720.jpgWhen blockchain technology went mainstream in late December 2017, little did many tech analysts, IT experts, and ordinary users know that the industry was heading into an unprecedented revolution era. At that time, few cryptos like Ethereum and Bitcoin were all over the news making popular headlines as prices kept soaring high.It was at this point that many enterprising individuals and business organizations saw the need to adopt relevant blockchain solutions by investing in the technology. Most folks who were already tired of the old, dysfunctional monetary system didn’t hesitate to join in the bandwagon too. Within two months, the crypto market seemed to have gone out of control, blowing everyone’s imagination (...)

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