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The price of MakerDAO (MKR) has rallied by roughly 30% over the past 24 hours, posting a new year-to-date high above $720 on some exchanges. The rally follows a late May spike of up to roughly 45% on the heels of MKR’s second Coinbase Pro listing. The past day’s high saw
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Block.one, the company that developed the backend of the EOS network, is now taking a much more active role in it. Its stake of EOS tokens, previously left unused, will be used to vote for block producers (BP), according to an April 8 announcement.The EOS network runs on EOSIO,
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One of the hot button issues for elections in the United States is separating money and politics. At the center of this topic is political action committees (PACs), organizations that can support candidates or legislation with money raised privately.HODLpac, the PAC founded by Tyler Whirty of the venture capital
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At the end of January, a poll apparently confirmed community support for a new mining reward-distribution structure for the Zcash (ZEC) network, whereby more will flow into the developer fund. Still, the decision proved to be rather controversial.Electric Coin Company, the firm behind Zcash, announced in a Jan. 2
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Public anger against the government’s coronavirus response sees a petition for the impeachment of South Korean President Moon Jae-in surpassed 1.4 million votes. The government is under fire after several controversial statements outraged millions of people. This week, the Health and Welfare minister said the biggest cause of coronavirus
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Buying votes is a big no-no in traditional democracies, but on the world’s eighth-largest blockchain it’s become an accepted way of doing business.A new service makes it easier for EOS block producers, the nodes elected by holders of the cryptocurrency to validate transactions on the network, to share their block
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India’s citizens will soon be able to cast votes from outside their city of registration thanks to a blockchain-based system.According to The Times of India on Feb. 13, India’s Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said that the country hopes to increase voter turnout with a blockchain-based voting solution.Using blockchain
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The zcash community has agreed to continue funding the development of its privacy coin, ZEC, as spearheaded by the Electric Coin Company (ECC) and the Zcash Foundation, according to voting results published by the foundation Thursday.The decision marks the end of a months-long – and often contentious – campaign to
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Kelly Loeffler, former CEO at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)-backed crypto trading platform Bakkt, has been sworn into the United States Senate.In a Jan. 6 tweet, Loeffler announced that she was sworn into the U.S. Senate by Mike Pence, the Senate’s chief officer, to become Georgia’s newest Senator.Loeffler casts first
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Like a good student gone rogue, it seems that the cryptocurrency EOS (EOS)trade is losing laps compared to its buddies at the top of the crypto chart. Weiss Crypto Ratings – the crypto firm known for playing the role of a teacher who grades her students – released yet another
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