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Short Trading: A comprehensive analysis of the controversial strategy and an in-depth analysis of how investors make money from market declines

Time Stamp: March 19, 2024 8:45 AM - Modified On: March 19, 2024 - Published By:

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Short trading is a strategy in which investors make money by taking advantage of predictions that a stock or other asset is expected to fall. The process involves borrowing shares and selling them immediately in the hope of buying them back at a lower price once their price drops, profiting from the difference between the selling and buying prices. Simply put, short trading is a way for investors to make profits through expected negative changes in the market. The Historical Origins of Short Trading The idea of short trading can

Kaskade Finance Closes Successful Pre-Seed Round

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Time Stamp: March 11, 2024 3:15 PM - Modified On: March 11, 2024 - Published By:

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Kaskade finance, a gamified incentivization layer protocol, just announced the closure of its pre-seed funding round from over 40 investors. Kaskade Finance Nathan Lenga, CEO of Kaskade, tabled the MVP to go live in August, and to continue to build a world-class team that will make certain Kaskade Finance is the premier liquidity incentivization layer for all of DeFi. The oversubscribed seed round had participation from over 40 investors, some of which include Marshland, NxGen.xyz, Artemis Capital, Andromeda Capital, Hercules Ventures, 369 Capital, Crypto Oasis Ventures, as well as influencers,

Analyzing Token Sale Models

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Time Stamp: February 20, 2024 1:29 PM - Modified On: February 20, 2024 - Published By:

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Note: I mention the names of various projects below only to compare and contrast their token sale mechanisms; this should NOT be taken as an endorsement or criticism of any specific project as a whole. It's entirely possible for any given project to be total trash as a whole and yet still have an awesome token sale model. The last few months have seen an increasing amount of innovation in token sale models. Two years ago, the space was simple: there were capped sales, which sold a fixed number of

Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems

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Time Stamp: February 20, 2024 1:18 PM - Modified On: February 20, 2024 - Published By:

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Recently, there was a small spat between the Core and Unlimited factions of the Bitcoin community, a spat which represents perhaps the fiftieth time the same theme was debated, but which is nonetheless interesting because of how it highlights a very subtle philosophical point about how blockchains work. ViaBTC, a mining pool that favors Unlimited, tweeted "hashpower is law", a usual talking point for the Unlimited side, which believes that miners have, and should have, a very large role in the governance of Bitcoin, the usual argument for this being

Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion

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Time Stamp: February 20, 2024 1:15 PM - Modified On: February 20, 2024 - Published By:

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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

[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood

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Time Stamp: February 2, 2024 11:10 AM - Modified On: February 2, 2024 - Published By:

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Vitalik Buterin via the Vitalik Buterin Blog This is a mirror of the post at https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/zk-snarks-under-the-hood-b33151a013f6 This is the third part of a series of articles explaining how the technology behind zk-SNARKs works; the previous articles on quadratic arithmetic programs and elliptic curve pairings are required reading, and this article will assume knowledge of both concepts. Basic knowledge of what zk-SNARKs are and what they do is also assumed. See also Christian Reitwiessner's article here for another technical introduction. In the previous articles, we introduced the quadratic arithmetic program, a

[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings

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Time Stamp: February 2, 2024 11:01 AM - Modified On: February 2, 2024 - Published By:

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Vitalik Buterin via the Vitalik Buterin Blog This is a mirror of the post at https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/exploring-elliptic-curve-pairings-c73c1864e627 Trigger warning: math. One of the key cryptographic primitives behind various constructions, including deterministic threshold signatures, zk-SNARKs and other simpler forms of zero-knowledge proofs is the elliptic curve pairing. Elliptic curve pairings (or "bilinear maps") are a recent addition to a 30-year-long history of using elliptic curves for cryptographic applications including encryption and digital signatures; pairings introduce a form of "encrypted multiplication", greatly expanding what elliptic curve-based protocols can do. The purpose of this

[Mirror] A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy

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Time Stamp: February 2, 2024 10:55 AM - Modified On: February 2, 2024 - Published By:

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Vitalik Buterin via the Vitalik Buterin Blog This is a mirror of the post at https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/a-proof-of-stake-design-philosophy-506585978d51 Systems like Ethereum (and Bitcoin, and NXT, and Bitshares, etc) are a fundamentally new class of cryptoeconomic organisms — decentralized, jurisdictionless entities that exist entirely in cyberspace, maintained by a combination of cryptography, economics and social consensus. They are kind of like BitTorrent, but they are also not like BitTorrent, as BitTorrent has no concept of state — a distinction that turns out to be crucially important. They are sometimes described as decentralized autonomous

[Mirror] Quadratic Arithmetic Programs: from Zero to Hero

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Time Stamp: February 2, 2024 10:41 AM - Modified On: February 2, 2024 - Published By:

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Vitalik Buterin via the Vitalik Buterin Blog This is a mirror of the post at https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/quadratic-arithmetic-programs-from-zero-to-hero-f6d558cea649 There has been a lot of interest lately in the technology behind zk-SNARKs, and people are increasingly trying to demystify something that many have come to call "moon math" due to its perceived sheer indecipherable complexity. zk-SNARKs are indeed quite challenging to grasp, especially due to the sheer number of moving parts that need to come together for the whole thing to work, but if we break the technology down piece by piece then

The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications

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Time Stamp: January 31, 2024 4:49 AM - Modified On: January 31, 2024 - Published By:

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Author: Vitalik Buterin via the Vitalik Buterin Blog Special thanks to the Worldcoin and Modulus Labs teams, Xinyuan Sun, Martin Koeppelmann and Illia Polosukhin for feedback and discussion. Many people over the years have asked me a similar question: what are the intersections between crypto and AI that I consider to be the most fruitful? It's a reasonable question: crypto and AI are the two main deep (software) technology trends of the past decade, and it just feels like there must be some kind of connection between the two. It's

Francisco Motors and HDEX Announce Groundbreaking Partnership in The Hydrogen Sector.

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Time Stamp: January 11, 2024 1:03 PM - Modified On: January 12, 2024 - Published By:

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MANILLA, PHILIPPINES JANUARY10, 2024 - HDEX and eFrancisco Motor Corporation proudly unveil a transformative alliance that will reshape the hydrogen landscape. This strategic partnership will harmonize with the distinctive business goals of both entities, offering a dynamic framework that allows for growth and innovation. Expressing enthusiasm about this groundbreaking collaboration, Aron Dutta Chairman of HDEX remarked, “This partnership marks a significant leap. We are confident that our combined strengths will propel us towards sustainable growth.” Elmer Francisco, CEO of eFrancisco Motor Corporation said, “We do not see

Bitcoin, which goes hand in hand with AI technology, can we expect a continued bright outlook?

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Time Stamp: January 11, 2024 11:30 AM - Modified On: January 11, 2024 - Published By:

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Due to the full-scale introduction of AI technology in 2023, America's big tech companies such as Meta, Amazon, and Twitter are threatening human jobs by laying off more than 100,000 employees a year alone. In the aftermath of this, some experts say that the pace of AI development should be slowed down to prevent further harm to human jobs, but on the other hand, most experts believe that human development should proceed together in a society that coexists with AI, rather than slowing it down. There was also an opinion

Kaskade Finance Closes Successful Pre-Seed Round

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