Vitalik Buterin

Tron’s BitTorrent Network Reaches 2 Billion Downloads

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Time Stamp: August 13, 2020 12:20 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:

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Peer-to-peer file sharing service BitTorrent, and little brother uTorrent, have now been downloaded more than two billion times on various platforms. Last year the network accounted for 3% of all downstream, and 28% of all upstream, traffic across the internet.The company attributes the figures to the “longstanding popularity of its classic desktop torrent clients, as well as its new web-based torrent downloader and player built for the streaming age”. It said the Android version of the service on Google Play Store is the “most popular torrent downloader”.In the announcement, Sun

DeFi Market Cap Surpasses $8 Billion

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DeFi is all the rage as the booming crypto landscape’s total market cap surpassed $8 billion today, per data from CoinGecko. DeFi Continues to Grow Exponentially The DeFi market cap continues to increase as more money gets poured into the nascent space. According to the latest data from CoinGecko, the total market capitalization of the top 100 DeFi coins is now over $8 billion. That said, the figure should be taken with a pinch of salt as different websites have different metrics to determine the DeFi market cap. For instance,

Two Versions of Digital Dollar Emerge as Contenders, but Unlikely to Come Soon

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Time Stamp: April 8, 2020 3:20 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:

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The coronavirus pandemic is the biggest global crisis since the events that sparked the creation of Bitcoin (BTC) in 2008, and is one that will also have long-lasting effects on the economy. World governments are taking unprecedented measures to cope with the economic fallout of the virus, namely through the third coronavirus relief bill, which was approved by the United States Congress earlier this month and constitutes the biggest stimulus package in the country’s history at $2.2 trillion.During the negotiations for the third emergency bill, one of the drafts submitted

Decentralized Networks Need Centralized Oracles

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oracleswap.co splash pageI created an open-source contract and web-front-end, OracleSwap, because I want to see crypto move back to its off-the-grid roots. I cannot administer it because I have too many fingerprints on it to benefit directly. OracleSwap is a template that makes it easy for programmers to administer contracts that reference objective outcomes: liquid assets or sports betting. Users create long or short swap (aka CFD) positions that reference a unique Oracle contract that warehouses prices (the prototype references ETH/USD, BTC/USD, and the S&P500). The only users in this

Charity Crypto Poker Tournament: Big-Stacking Sats for COVID-19

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Time Stamp: April 7, 2020 7:46 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:

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The crypto community is rallying around the charge to fight COVID-19, with a variety of initiatives raising money to fight the pandemic and support charities on the front lines of the battle. The most recent: an online poker tournament, open to anyone and featuring a host of well-known crypto faces.The Giving Block has partnered with a number of high-profile cryptocurrency and blockchain firms to promote #CryptoCOVID19, a campaign to raise $100K — which kicked off with a matching pledge of $50k each from Vitalik Buterin and Gitcoin for all donations

Ethereum Creator Picks Two Worst Bull and Bear BTC Predictions Ever Made

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Time Stamp: April 6, 2020 3:59 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:

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As the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC) is highly volatile, once surging from $1,000 to $20,000 in the span of just over a year. The coin has become the subject of infinite price predictions. Both optimistic and negative, some of these predictions have turned out to be extremely inaccurate.Vitalik Buterin, the well-known co-creator of the Ethereum network and its native cryptocurrency Ether (ETH), highlighted the two worst Bitcoin price predictions ever made since the digital currency was introduced back in 2009.In an April 6 tweet, Buterin emphasized that price predictions

Ethereum Founder Tells Bitcoin Dev: BTC Wasn’t Always ‘Digital Gold’

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 7:21 PM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin was involved in a spat with a Bitcoin developer on Twitter yesterday, when he suggested BTC was originally designed to be P2P cash, not digital gold.Replying to Blockstream employee Zack Voell who claimed that Bitcoin was, is, and always shall be digital gold, Buterin pointed out the narrative had changed since 2011:“I joined Bitcoin land in 2011 and back then I remember a clear vibe that Bitcoin was P2P cash first and gold second.”Source: Twitter: Vitalik Buterin, Zack VoellButerin’s view that Bitcoin was originally intended to

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum is DeFi Chain as Much as Bitcoin is Digital Gold

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Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin has recently asserted that aside from the numerous potential applications of Ethereum in various areas, its use as a cryptocurrency, for settlements, cannot be overlooked. This is coming after Ryan Sean Adams, the founder of Mythos Capital, shared how Bitcoin Maximalists are trolling him about how pointless Ethereum is. Got Maximalists trolling me about how pointless Ethereum is meanwhile I just sent a crypto backed stablecoin in a private transaction on the Ethereum mainnet peer-to-peer w/o a bank Keep trolling We’ll keep building the bankless future

Tron’s BitTorrent Network Reaches 2 Billion Downloads

Decentralized Networks Need Centralized Oracles

Charity Crypto Poker Tournament: Big-Stacking Sats for COVID-19

Ethereum Founder Tells Bitcoin Dev: BTC Wasn’t Always ‘Digital Gold’

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum is DeFi Chain as Much as Bitcoin is Digital Gold

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