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The COVID-19 crisis has done little to dampen China’s interest in becoming the first major economy to distribute a central bank digital currency. Quite the contrary, its digital currency/electronic payment project appears to be picking up speed. In the Shenzhen region, for example, 100,000 local citizens this month received for free
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Originally slated for Dec. 1, 2020, Bitcoin Core version 0.21.0 is now available for download, and includes a handful of notable changes to Bitcoin’s primary software implementation. Most notably, Bitcoin now supports Tor’s latest address format, Taproot’s code is now live for testing and Bitcoin Core finally gets manual fee
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Central banks from two of the most powerful economies in the Middle East released today a report on a yearlong joint central bank digital currency (CBDC) project — and results speak glowingly of blockchain technology. First announced in January of 2019, Project Aber was a joint effort between the United Arab
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Currently, AstraZeneca vaccine trials are in the late-stages, involving about 23,000 participants. The participants span across the UK, U.S., South Africa, and Brazil.British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca Plc (LON: AZN) hopes to release its vaccine data by the end of the year. The drugmaker announced the development as it reports a
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Ethereum 2.0’s deposit contract is now live, heralding the imminent unveiling of the “world computer’s” second act.Released at 15:00 UTC, according to developer Afri Schoedon, the deposit contract is the first physical implementation of Eth 2.0 for everyday users. The deposit contract acts as a bridge between the forthcoming proof-of-stake
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Was it an allusion to the Reformation or something to do with the ancient pagan tradition of Samhain?One of the most powerful aspects of bitcoin is its mythology. In this episode, NLW explores the 12th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper and the choices that went into its release date. Whether it was something
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The Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract is a few weeks away at least, according to Ethereum Foundation researcher Danny Ryan.Speaking Thursday on the Bankless podcast, Ryan said the deposit contract won’t go live until it receives a thumbs up on an audit of a critical crypto library, BLST, performed by cryptography
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If testnet participation is any indication, Ethereum 2.0 validators are itching for the real thing as the network kickoff looms.That’s echoed by the more recent Zinken testnet, which has just under the 66% needed to function properly as of Monday, according to beaconcha.in. Those testnets – meant to practice the
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Filecoin, a decentralized storage network launched by Protocol Labs, is off to a rocky start after a strike by miners just one day after its highly anticipated miannet launch on Oct. 15. Five of its largest miners turned off their machines to protest the project’s “unfair” economic model that requires a
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Following the Spadina testnet failure at the end of September, the Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 rollout looked in
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