Quantstamp, a Y-Combinator backed blockchain security company, has just released the Quantstamp Security Network V2. This new release, available at protocol.quantstamp.com, features a decentralized design using staking, improved security analysis, has open-sourced code, and stores security reports completely on the blockchain for transparency. Staking-based Network Anyone can now run a node on the Quantstamp Security Network V2 and earn QSP tokens by staking and participating in the network. This greatly increases the decentralization of the network compared to the whitelisted nodes of V1. Quantstamp Security Network V2 also removes the AWS dependencies of the previous version. Nodes can now interact
New York Prosecutors Demand Transparency From Bitfinex and Tether
The crypto community has been laser focused on the current dilemma between Bitfinex exchange and New York prosecutors over the alleged loss of $ 850 million of co-mingled customer and corporate funds. After the craziness last week, the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) office has now demanded that Bitfinex must show transparency by turning over documents tied to the firm Tether.
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[Guest Post] Blockchain; enhancing security, transparency and trust in the food supply chain
by Catherine Frankum Blockchain and Bitcoin. These two words have been linked closely together since their joint creation in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto. Still to this day people confuse them as being the same. However, since 2014, Blockchain has developed into a technology that can be used for many di…
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Atlas Quantum CEO Says Access and Transparency Will Change All People’s Lives
Rodrigo Marques is the CEO and founder of Atlas Quantum, Latin America’s largest cryptocurrency investment platform. In fact, it’s Latin America’s largest cryptocurrency company, period. And he’s on a mission to make it a top five global one by 2020. I caught up with Rodrigo at Web Summit in Lisbon to find out more about
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Lack of Transparency to Blame for Tether’s Loss of USD Peg: Novogratz
Five days since losing its U.S. dollar peg, fiat-backed cryptocurrency tether (USDT) continues to trade at a discount to its supposed $ 1.00 valuation. Defenders have largely chalked up the markdown to FUD, arguing that supporters of other “stablecoins” are launching a coordinated assault on tether, which has long dominated this market niche. However, billionaire investor
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Crypto Transparency: Aidos (ADK) in First-of-its-Kind Free Share Offer to Exchanges
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Improving Supply Chain Transparency
Ambrosus, a blockchain and IoT platform for quality assurance in food and pharmaceutical supply chains, has announced the launch of its mainnet, AMB-NET 1.0. The mainnet lets companies record public and private supply chain data on the Ambrosus blockchain to ensure product quality. The platform has created a universally verifiable, community-driven ecosystem to guarantee the safety and origins of essential products —such as medicine, food, and commodities — in real time. Organisations will now be able to record their supply chain data through the Ambrosus Network, using the AMB native token, by putting their public data and certain aspects of their private data on the Ambrosus blockchain.
Mining Giant Bitmain Offers New Policy to Boost Its Transparency
Chinese mining company Bitmain has announced it is exploring new policies that will boost the company’s transparency and communication with the cryptocurrency community.
In a company statement, Bitmain said, “We believe that communities served by Bitmain and its products should be supported and served as transparently as possible. Recent measures have included restricting order quantities, ensuring a first-paid-first-ship order of fulfillment, blocking IPs that we suspect to be hoarding, and publishing detailed shipping updates openly.”
Bitcoin Magazine asked Bitmain to explain the extent to which the data supplied by the company will be verifiable. A company representative responded:
Transparency to Digital Advertising Through Blockchain
Advanced location data technology company Blis, backed by Unilever, Endeit and Beringea, has announced a pilot platform to add transparency across the data ecosystem. Digital advertising commonly relies on disparate data sets to help identify audiences likely to buy products and services. Marketers increasingly face pressures to comply with data privacy regulations, understand where it came from, and to account for the performance of data relative to its costs. The platform is in response to the increased industry challenges around transparency and verification of data, including location and demographic data, and will run on the IBM Blockchain Platform.
Blockchain Improving Supply Chain Transparency
FoodLogiQ, a SaaS provider of traceability, food safety and supply chain transparency solutions, together with a select group of customers, have announced the launch of a blockchain pilot. AgBiome Innovations, Subway®/Independent Purchasing Cooperative, Testo, Tyson Foods and others are partnering with FoodLogiQ to test the application of blockchain to raise transparency within their supply chains.
During the project, which is set to be launched by the tech company’s innovation arm FoodLogiQ Labs in Q3 2018, the pilot group will research the opportunities and challenges of this emerging technology within the food industry.
Secured Blockchain Voting One Step Closer To Realization
Blockchain technology can be adapted to suit all kinds of needs, most of which extend far beyond the realm of finance. Decentralizing the concept of voting is one of the most interesting prospects to keep an eye on, especially now that Global Arena Holding is exploring the boundaries of this idea. Leveraging Bitcoin’s platform technologies to create a new breed of general election sounds quite appealing.
Also read: Belgian Bank ING Gets Involved in Crowdfunding – Bitcoin Integraton Soon?
Unison Between Wearable Technology and The Bitcoin Blockchain
Our society is defined by technology and how we use the innovations and tools at our disposal. Over the past few years, the innovation has far outpaced the understanding of new technologies, yet consumer-grade products are being created at an accelerated pace. Wearable technology is one of those new trends of consumer products, although most customers won’t give the possible ramifications a second thought.
Also read: Santander Innoventures Invests in Bitcoin Lending Competitor Kabbage
How Blockchain Technology Could Affect Our Eating Habits
Blockchain technology can be adapted to achieve many goals in life. Whether it is more transparency, easier management or just relying on decentralized services, the possibilities are endless. And even for the everyday consumer, there are multiple benefits stemming from using the blockchain. Have you ever wondered how the food you are eating went from seed to a full-fledged meal? You might find out sooner rather than later.
ChangeTip Adds More Privacy Settings Following User Feedback
Changetip is one of those unique Bitcoin services everyone learns to love over time. Even though the platform offers a ton of functionality and integration out of the box, that moment when you send or receive your first Bitcoin tip is truly amazing. But what about user privacy, a matter near and dear to all our hearts?
ChangeTip’s Privacy Options
Bitcoin offers a certain level of anonymity and user privacy, a trait many of us enjoy on a regular basis. By being so different compared to more traditional media, Bitcoin has all the right tools to disrupt the current financial infrastructure. But it goes beyond so much more than that, as tipping content creators in Bitcoin is not only beneficial to the tipper, but also the person receiving the love.
LitecoinLocal – Buy & Sell Litecoin In Exchange For Fiat Currency
When it comes to Litecoin, there hardly seem to be any projects making the headlines on major crypto news sites. While CryptoArticles is not a major news site by any means just yet, we do aim to focus more on litecoin from 2015 onwards. In order to “get our feet wet”, so to speak, I want to talk to our beloved readers about LitecoinLocal.
Darkcoin now Trading on CCEDK, Europe’s most secure Exchange !
ccedk.com, a Danish exchange renowned for its security, have announced that they are now accepting Darkcoin. Trading with Darkcoin will include, amongst others, trading pairs such as the Euro and the Russian ruble opening up further possibilities for Darkcoin’s increasing popularity.
ccedk.com is presented as the first crime-free cryptocurrency trading platform. Boasting a dual-language English/Russian interface it is aimed at a wide audience, but has often been overlooked. Notably there are plans for further interfaces in Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Danish and Chinese suggesting expansion is on the horizon.
VeniVidiVici Coin – Full Coin Transparency And Limited Mining Period
One of the most recently released coins that has gotten a lot of attention in a very short span of time, is called VeniVidiVici Coin. With a very limited supply of coins, and a short mining phase, let’s take a look at what else there is to VeniVidiVici Coin!
With probably one of the longest coin names in the history of digital currency,VeniVidiVici Coin stands out amongst the crowd. Add the fact there is a lot of talk going on about VVV on several big financial sites, such as TalkGold, things are looking quite interesting already!
EnergyCoin – Fair Distribution And Full Transparency
In the thick of all these different alternate cryptocurrencies, it’s not hard to lose track of one or two Cryptos. Some of these even turn out to be “sleeper coins”, such as EnergyCoin. Have you heard of it yet? No? Let’s explore!
Being launched on April 29th, EnergyCoin is nearly 2 months old today. Yet hardly anyone has heard of it for some reason, and not because of a lack of efforts from the ENRG community.So what makes EnergyCoin so special?
Meet The VeriCoin Developers
As promised, today marks the day on which the entire VeriCoin development team tell us their identities. We have pictures, names and a short bio for everyone. There are far less people behind VeriCoin than I actually anticipated.
Given the amount of projects that are currently in development for VeriCoin right now, and the magnitude of these projects ( assuming they can deliver on their promise) , I honestly expected seven or eight names.
CoinAAA Getting Ready For Round Two
Earlier this month we saw the launch of another alt coin. This one is called Coinaaa. You probably think “oh no, NOT another one I have to keep track of”. Still the coin looks promising and requires an unbiased review.
Coinaaa is a bit different, which makes/keeps it interesting.