BITCOIN
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Announcement of TCOW contract address
According to the official twitter report of cowlab, TCOW has passed the torn distributed open source protocol,TCOW will establish a low threshold, high transparency, strong accessibility and inclusive point-to-point decentralized financial system. In order to prevent fraud, the TCOW contract address is officially announced: TAp5LFZL32A62LnPEv8n7GmxceKSyLEKNM, with a total amount of 2100 million, 70% of which is used for DAPP application developer award, 15% for community incentive, 10% for global institutional investment, and 5% for technology operation and maintenance team award.
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Enjin Raises $18.9M in Private Token Sale to Build Polkadot Parachain for NFTs
Blockchain platform Enjin has secured a multimillion-dollar funding raise in a bid to migrate its upcoming public blockchain Efinity to Polkadot. According to a press release shared with CoinDesk, Enjin has secured $18.9 million in a private token sale led by Crypto.com Capital, DFG Group and Hashed. Additional support for the raise came from Hypersphere, BlockTower, Blockchain.com Ventures, Fenbushi, Iconium, HashKey, Arrington XRP Capital, DeFi Alliance, among others, in what represents continued investor interest in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as a gateway to mainstream adoption. The funding was conducted via a…
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DeFi Major Aave Working With Polygon to Bypass Ethereum Congestion
Decentralized finance (DeFi) firm Aave is working with Ethereum layer 2 Polygon to address the congestion currently experienced on the second-largest public blockchain. Announced Wednesday, Aave will be exploring scalable sidechains with Polygon (formerly known as Matic) to escape the high transaction fees that currently exist on Ethereum. Aave says it will use a soon-to-be available smart-contract bridge that will seamlessly port assets from one network to the other. The “DeFi Summer” of 2020 has not really slowed down, with close to $43 billion currently locked within DeFi lending platforms. Built…
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No Joke: Chipotle to Give Away $200K in Free Burritos and Bitcoin on April 1
Fast-casual restaurant Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) said it will be giving away $100,000 in free burritos and $100,000 in bitcoin (BTC, +0.12%) in honor of National Burrito Day on April 1. In an announcement, the restaurant said it has teamed up with former Ripple Labs CTO Stefan Thomas to launch a new interactive game called “Burritos or Bitcoin.” The game has been inspired by Thomas, who famously lost the password to his hard drive that now has $387 million worth of bitcoin stored on it. Players will carry out a mock “chiptocurrency” rescue mission and…
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Enterprise Blockchain Doesn’t Work Because It’s About the Real World
Blockchain has come a long way since its 2008 debut as the ingenious technology underlying Bitcoin. Today companies and governments the world over are exploring new applications in which blockchains track, not the flow of digital currency, but things and events in the real world. But this tether to reality is enterprise blockchain’s Achilles heel. To see why, let’s go back to where it all began. When Bitcoin first appeared, a common reaction was: why would anyone exchange their hard-earned dollars for that? The answer, it’s become clear, is that bitcoin…
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Security Token Startup Founder Arrested on Sexual Assault Charges, Toronto Police Say
The founder of a security token startup has been arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a minor, Canadian authorities said. Trevor Koverko, former CEO of Polymath, was taken into custody on March 14 by Toronto police, a spokesperson for the department, Caroline de Kloet, told CoinDesk Wednesday. He has apparently deleted his Twitter. Koverko has been charged with “sexual interference with a person under 16 years of age” (Section 151 of Canada’s Criminal Code) and “sexual assault” (C.C. 271), said de Kloet. Chris Housser, Polymath’s other founder and interim CEO, said Koverko resigned from…
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Draws Skepticism From Rival Analysts
A debate is raging among bitcoin traders after a chart-reading analyst spotted a pattern known as a “bull flag,” ostensibly portending a coming rally to $70,000 or beyond. The analysis, posted on the website Bitcoinist by Yashu Gola and affirmed by Bill Noble at Token Metrics, concluded that the bull flag has formed over the past month, and that the cryptocurrency’s price is set to pop after a breakout in recent days. But when it comes to identifying and interpreting price-chart patterns there’s an art to the science, and some practitioners of bitcoin technical…
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DEFI New Finance: New HS Network Coming Out
Digital currency is the product of block chain technology. Block chain (Blockchain) refers to the technical scheme of maintaining a reliable database collectively through decentralization and distrust. From the perspective of financial accounting, block chain can be regarded as a highly trusted network electronic account book with full node participation. With the deep application of block chain technology, the value of digital currency in the future will become increasingly prominent. HS Network is a block chain DEFI Token trading platform based on Ethernet technology. Built by the Global Ecological…
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Thales: We’re building a whole new economic system
Thales, the first lightweight, high-performance parallel chain in the Polka ecosystem, has received a $10 million investment from ZKfund, Holo Capital, and Digital Assets Investment, which will be used for the development of Thales’ economic system layer Hayek, DAO governance layer Plato, and storage network layer IPS (IPS-Thales). Introduction to Thales The Thales project is made up of Hayek, an economic system layer, Plato, a DAO governance layer, and IPS, a storage network layer (IPS-Thales). Although the consensus mechanism of Thales is NPOS, unlike Poca, Thales rewards not only…
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Rep. Gaetz of Blockchain Caucus Faces Investigation for Sexual Misconduct: Report
U.S. lawmaker Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), a member of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus who has put his name to a handful of pro-blockchain bills and letters, is under investigation by the Department of Justice, which is looking into whether he had a sexual relationship with a minor, the New York Times reported Tuesday. According to the report, which cited “three people briefed on the matter,” Gaetz is also being investigated over whether or not he violated federal sex trafficking laws. He allegedly may have paid for a 17-year-old to travel with him. The investigation is part…