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What is Bancor Protocol? A DeFi Guide to BTN

Bancor Protocol takes advantage of smart contracts to build a decentralized, interoperable, and highly-liquid token exchange protocol. It became popular in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space shortly after having introduced smart tokens that facilitate instant exchange between different ERC-20 tokens in the market, regardless of their volume. Such development has opened a lot of other opportunities to users without having to involve third-party financial service providers in the scenario. Table of Contents Background The Team The team consists of five members of the Bancor Foundation, based in Zug, Switzerland. Bernard

Two Attacks on ETC Network Leave Community Needing a Solution, Fast

Ethereum Classic, a 2016 hard fork from Ethereum’s main blockchain, has suffered multiple concerning network attacks over the last two years. Two such attacks occurred within a seven-day span, totaling millions of dollars in losses. With the dust settling from the two 51% attacks, further details are now coming forward, as provided by a number of industry experts.“There is no debate about the attacks,” ETC Labs CEO Terry Culver told Cointelegraph on Aug. 7, answering a question on whether or not the network difficulties were in fact 51% attacks. “Community

Thailand’s Central Bank Eyes DeFi Use Cases for Its Digital Baht

Thailand’s central bank is looking at smart contracts and decentralized finance (DeFi) implementations for its national digital currency, the digital baht.Vijak Sethaput, senior developer for the Bank of Thailand’s (BoT) central bank digital currency project Inthanon, discussed the country’s CBDC progress in an interview hosted by a global think tank for central banking, the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, on Aug. 13.Sethaput was joined by Sky Guo, CEO of New York-based enterprise blockchain firm Cypherium, which is focused on global CBDC implementations and interoperability.In the interview, Guo said that

Slow But Steady: FATF Review Highlights Crypto Exchanges’ Struggle to Meet AML Standards

In June 2019, the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) introduced its revised set of standards for virtual asset service providers. The document establishes the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism (AML/CFT) requirements that regulated VASPs —  the term mainly referring to cryptocurrency trading platforms — must eventually implement in their day-to-day operations. The guidelines are framed as recommendations, and the FATF leaves it to the participating nations’ governments to develop their own regulations in accordance with suggested principles.The watchdog has also set a 12-month review timeframe to monitor the public and

Analyst Explains Reasons Bitcoin Price Could Fall Back to Lower $10Ks

Bitcoin is facing risks of a price correction towards $10,000, according to a TradingView analyst. He spotted the cryptocurrency trading near its weekly resistance level, noting that it may amount to profit-taking action among traders. Nevertheless, he also asserted that Bitcoin is in a bull market, adding that the price would likely bounce back from its $10,000-lows. Bitcoin’s efforts to log a breakout move above $12,000 may fail as selling sentiment grows near the said level. The benchmark cryptocurrency risks breaking lower after retesting the $12,000-mark, says a TradingView.com analyst

Grandmas On Lightning

Is Bitcoin Too Hard To Understand? I’ve spent a huge part of the last three years explaining Bitcoin to general audiences and the most common form of resistance I encounter is: “Bitcoin is too complicated. The masses will never understand it.” It’s a fair argument. Bitcoin is complicated and if you want to reach a competent understanding of the big picture then, at a minimum, you’d better get ready to learn about peer-to-peer networks, cryptography and the history of money. It’s for this reason that I find it bizarre when

Blockchair In Blockchain World | Let Us Explore The Explorer In 2020

Table of Contents Rate this post Blockchain technology has the whole new world to explore whether in term of applications, tools, features, compatibility with other technologies and many more. In earlier days, when Bitcoin was launched in 2009, it was considered that Blockchain is meant for the financial system only. But, as the potential of technology was analysed by the various communities, they concluded that Blockchain is meant for exploration. In this article, we will limit our nerves to explore to cryptocurrency. In the crypto marketplace, investors generally keep track