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Through 2018, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) became increasingly active in their regulation of the cryptocurrency space, particularly in regards to recent ICOs. This activity partially came in the form of Cease-and-Desists (C&D) delivered to a number of projects. Of these included Paragon. On November 16th, 2018, Paragon (PRG) rec…
Does the market have room for two thriving DApp platforms? Ethereum and EOS represent two distinct approaches to carrying out smart contracts and supporting more than 1,500 DApps. Ethereum holds an advantage as the first native DApp platform, but EOS is proposing a much faster consensus model. Is there going to be one clear winner and loser, or does the mark…
EOS promises a fast, fee-less platform for decentralized applications via the blockchain, but it needs a great deal of participation from token holders to be a success. As a more centralized project in which twenty-one voted-in supernodes confirm transactions, voting is key to keeping block producers accountable and successful in supporting the large volume…
One thing a lot of people do not like about bitcoin is how it takes an average of 10 minutes before a transaction receives a network confirmation. Various other cryptocurrencies, also known as altcoins, try to improve this block time by quite a margin. Some projects focusing on faster block times are more successful than others, though. 4. Litecoin Litecoin…
A series of raids and detentions ignited fear and anxiety in the Venezuelan bitcoin community. Yesterday, Surbitcoin - the country's largest exchange - was forced to halt operations after Banesco, the exchange's main bank partner, decided to close the company's accounts. Turmoil brewed inside the local bitcoin community. Several police agencies in Venezuela…
