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There are some missing details, though. Advertisements The Kenyan government is looking to blockchain technology to make the production and distribution of cheaper housing fairer and more cost efficient, according to two October 16 articles in Kenyan news outlet The Star. Discussing Kenya’s dire shortage of affordable housing, the country’s principal secretary of housing and […]

October 16, 2018 11:13 PM Advertisements Fernando Haddad, the Workers’ Party presidential candidate, has put his plans and statements on a blockchain platform. The Brazilian presidential race is heating up, and the candidates have different ideas about how to use blockchain technology. Advertisements REDE party candidate Marina Silva used the Decred blockchain to create an […]

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Despite significant industry support, Civil was unable to reach its fundraising goals. What’s next for the blockchain company? Advertisements Yesterday, on October 15, Civil’s token sale came to an end without reaching its soft cap of $8 million. By the end of the sale, Civil had raised less than $1.5 million. Today, the company’s CEO […]

This week, we discuss kidnappings & gunpoint attacks demanding cryptocurrency. We often say that cryptocurrency is unseizable. But in one sense, it’s actually more seizable than dollars in your bank account: Kidnappers’ crypto accounts, unlike bank accounts, are unfreezable and are themselves unseizable — making stolen funds completely unrecoverable. Advertisements What can we do to be safe […]

Roadblocks for Constantinople testing, regulatory insecurity in Britain, and who needs Twitter love when you’ve got DocuSign? Advertisements This is the maiden edition of the Daily Byte, a morning roundup of some of the most interesting stories in blockchain and cryptocurrency. Here’s what’s happening for October 15, 2018: “Give Us Time to Think About It”; […]

The Ethereum co-founder and the economics professor disagree about crypto. Advertisements On Wednesday, October 10, economist Nouriel Roubini, who teaches at New York University’s Stern School of Business, angrily tweeted to Vitalik Buterin criticizing him for the delay in Ethereum’s proof-of-stake (PoS) development, as well as about what Roubini sees as the impossibility of any […]

No need to panic, folks. Turns out core devs are pretty good at their jobs. Here’s your chill pill. On the other hand, a tweet by President Donald Trump was included in the block that broke Ropsten. Coincidence? Advertisements On Saturday, October 13, Geth and Parity clients brought the Constantinople hard fork to the Ropsten […]

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General Idea Name of the project – Gigzi – is an abbreviation of three words that can in a way describe the main idea behind the project. Gi comes from Giga, which means one billion. The second Gi comes from Gigabyte, which is a measure of data, while ZI goes for zero information. They want […]