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Binance has now officially begun a survival of the fittest battle between two strongly emerging protocols in what is now the second round of the Community Coin Vote’s (CCV) new format. The Binance community is expected to vote between the ARPA protocol and the Carry protocol, two networks that have more than a few things in common.Voting DetailsThe process kicked off at 4:00 AM (UTC) today Nov. 5, and will run continuously for 24 hours, before closing on November 6, at 4:00 AM (UTC) as well....

In a move that has seen Big Tech enter the crypto space on a whole new level, Microsoft has launched a platform on its Azure cloud infrastructure to make token deployment to become as easy as possible.Referred to as the Azure Blockchain Tokens platform, the platform aims to make the issuance and existence of blockchain tokens to become cloud-based and to also enable the operating environment of such blockchain projects to become seamless and as easy as possible.This was revealed at the...

During the Stellar Meridian conference on Monday, November 4, the Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon disclosed that they have burned 55 billion Lumens (XLM) tokens which is half of the overall cryptocurrency supply.Earlier there were a total of 105 billion tokens of which 20 billion were in circulation. With the recent burning, the total supply has reduced to only 50 billion XLM tokens. In its latest Medium blog post, the Stellar Foundation noted that token burning was part of...

Photo: ARPA OfficialARPA – the layer two privacy-preserving computation protocol – is set to square off against Carry Protocol, a data purchase platform on Ethereum, in Binance’s second round of the Community Coin Vote (CCV). Voting will begin at 4 AM 5 November (UTC) and will incorporate Binance’s new rules for the CCV that allocates a BNB rewards pool to the runner-up and reduces the BNB holding period of 9 to 7 days. ARPA winning voters will split a rewards pool of 15 million ARPA tokens,...

Exactly nine months after opening its doors for business, DX.Exchange, a trading platform powered by Nasdaq, has thrown in the towel due to financial difficulties. Currently, the platform is looking for a buyer or better still a merger.The news was released via an announcement on Nov. 3, telling the world that the cost of operating the platform in the aspects of security, support and technology is too much to bear.Good Intention, Bad ExecutionThe original idea for DX.Exchange was to become a...

Today the next chapter of a long-running and closely watched lawsuit against Ripple will happen. The plaintiff, Bradley Sostack, has time until the end of this Monday to file a response to the startup’s September 20 motion to dismiss. If the case won’t be entirely dismissed, it will probably go into discovery next year.As we already reported, the main point of this dispute is the question of whether Ripple’s cryptocurrency XRP is a security or not.If it is, that means that it should have been...

Craig Wright has declined to pay Dave Kleiman’s estate a $4.5 billion settlement. The plaintiff and defendant had agreed to enter into a non-binding agreement with the promise that Wright would pay. The U-turn has reset litigation proceedings. It looks like the Satoshi Nakamoto saga will continue into the next year. According to the latest news, Bitcoin SV founder Craig Wright has declined to pay the Kleiman Estate a 500,000 Bitcoin ($4.5 billion) settlement. The estate, which is...

Photo: BitBay / TwitterBitBay has become the latest major cryptocurrency exchange to create an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) launchpad. IEOs have surged in popularity in recent years, largely replacing the ICO funding model. BitBay’s new platform will launch on November 18, with users given the chance to buy IEO tokens directly via EURO, USD, GBP and Polish Złoty. With 245 IEOs having taken place in the past few years, BitBay may be late to the party – but the exchange hopes to hit the...

Today most of the weapons are software-based and intricately networked. As IoT and cloud computing, as well as connectivity, have increased, hard to detect cyber threats have evolved. Cybersecurity is even more critical in military-dedicated networks. The challenge in the information age is to repeal attacks from multiple sources, proactively react and prepare for any contingencies.Modern warfare will include new technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain and big data as...

From October 26 to 31, 2019(PST), a series of activities was organized in the framework of the Vegas Blockchain Week and World Crypto Conference 2019 (WCC 2019)  hosted in Las Vegas, USA. RRMine North America team was among the participants of these important events and had an opportunity to present its platform and share its views on the state of the mining industry in a public speech and a number of interviews. RRMine’s VisionYung Cheng Tsou, RRMine Global CEO, said that their goal and key...