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Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cryptox in one link. Top Stories This WeekBitcoin’s price correction continues, dashing hopes of
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Facebook has been hit with threats of legal action over its plan to rebrand the Libra stablecoin project to ‘Diem’ from a finance application of the same name.Facebook announced its plan to rebrand Libra on Dec. 1, with the firm claiming the new name would help the revamped project distance
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James Emmett, Libra Networks Managing Director, is convinced that the expertise of Saumya Bhavsar will be crucial in launching and managing the permissioned blockchain-based payment system.Libra Networks, a subsidiary of the Libra Association has announced the appointment of legal expert Saumya Bhavsar as General Counsel of Libra Networks. The independent
Read MoreAragon co-founder Luis Cuende told Cryptox that the decentralized technology his company has been developing could find its perfect use case on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. In recent months, content moderation practices employed by global social media platforms have been criticized by people across the political spectrum. Libertarian-leaning
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Beller, 27, will become a general partner at NFX. She'd worked at a16z before joining Facebook. Source
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We’re happy to be back after a recharging long weekend. Let’s get to the news. India’s central bank has clarified its crypto stance, Tencent is looking to invest in “emerging technologies” including blockchain and Facebook’s digital wallet subsidiary announced a rebranding and new details. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of
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Cathy Barrera, a CryptoX columnist, is a founding economist at Prysm Group, an economic advisory group, and was chief economist at ZipRecruiter. She has a PhD in business economics from Harvard. On May 6, Facebook announced the members of its new oversight board. They include a Nobel Laureate, a former Prime Minister,
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In a recent presentation at the 3rd ZKProof Workshop, the Calibra research team presented Distributed Auditing Proofs of Liabilities, or DAPOL, protocol designed to make improvements to the existing distributed audit procedures.The team led by Konstantinos Chalkias, contends that their protocol builds upon and improves existing methods by introducing additional
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Facebook’s Calibra team have published a research paper outlining a new method for Byzantine fault tolerance, or BFT, testing.Dubbed “Twins”, Claibra’s innovation comprises a lightweight method for testing a network’s BFT implementation.Calibra pioneers BFT testing strategyThe paper asserts that while BFT systems “have seen extensive study for more than two
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Facebook’s Calibra is looking to create 50 new roles for its workforce in Ireland, as the firm seemingly bucks the trend of private-sector layoffs during the coronavirus crisis.An Irish Times report on April 20 revealed that Calibra’s small team in Dublin is set to be significantly expanded this year, with
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