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Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion

One of the important arguments in the blockchain space is that of whether hard forks or soft forks are the preferred protocol upgrade mechanism. The basic difference between the two is that soft forks change the rules of a protocol by strictly reducing the set of transactions that is valid, so nodes following the old rules will still get on the new chain (provided that the majority of miners/validators implements the fork), whereas hard forks allow previously invalid transactions and blocks to become valid, so clients must upgrade their clients

Alexander Bojer is appointed new CEO of Inacta AG as of January 2023.

08 November 2022, Zug. - The Board of Directors of Inacta Group AG (‘Inacta’) has elected Alexander Bojer as a new member of Inacta's group management. He joins Ralf Glabischnig and Marco Bumbacher on the management team from 1 January 2023. As CEO of Inacta AG, Alexander will continue to drive forward Inacta’s core operating businesses of consulting and product development. Ralf Glabischnig will focus on the further growth of Inacta Ventures and take care of the overall development of the group. Marco Bumbacher will continue to manage the corporate

ADDX tokenises private equity fund of funds

The SGX-backed private market exchange has partnered with Fullerton Fund Management to allow tokenised access to the Fullerton Optimised Alpha Fund SINGAPORE, 11 MAY 2022 – Private market exchange ADDX has partnered with investment specialist Fullerton Fund Management Company Ltd (“Fullerton”) to list Fullerton’s private equity fund of funds on its digital platform. The Fullerton Optimised Alpha Fund is a closed-end fund targeting 8% to 12% in returns per annum over its fund life of seven years. The fund will be invested in a portfolio of six to eight private

Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson Calls For Mass Rally Against U.S. Crypto Taxation Bill

Charles Hoskinson, Cardano’s founder and CEO of blockchain research company Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), has urged the U.S. crypto community to rally against the recently proposed taxation policy. Hoskinson first took it to Twitter earlier this week, calling on digital asset proponents in the U.S. to rally in Washington DC to vent their grievances against the bill. This would be a bid to convince the country’s senators to amend the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) reporting rules for cryptocurrencies. “I think it’s about time we get a rally going in

Market Analysis Report (26 Jul 2021)

A poll conducted by American analytics firm Gallup has found that since 2018, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gained momentum among U.S. investors. It found that 6% of its 1,037 respondents own BTC, a 4% rise from 2018. Gallup’s Investor Optimism poll defines U.S. investors as “adults with $10,000 or more invested in stocks, bonds or mutual funds.” Of the survey’s respondents, 13% under fifty hold BTC, with the number being 3% among senior investors. In 2018, 80% of investors revealed they had an interest in buying Bitcoin, while this