Category: Technology
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Immortality, Cryogenics and UBI: How The Crypto Rich Influence Science
The rise of cryptocurrency is changing the philanthropic world by causing the redistribution of wealth from old money to visionary innovators and early tech adopters. The new crypto rich invest their donations by supporting scientific research in groundbreaking fields that may one day enable humanity to cure aging, reverse death and completely change the relationship…
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Send Token Payouts With Ease Using Bitcoin.com’s SLP Dividend Calculator
On August 23, Bitcoin.com released a new application called the SLP Dividend Calculator. The new platform allows users to build a transaction to make dividend payments to any Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) token holder. Also read: How to Create Non-Fungible Assets and Collectible Tokens With Bitcoin Cash Testing the New SLP Dividend Calculator From Bitcoin.com…
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How to Create Non-Fungible Assets and Collectible Tokens With Bitcoin Cash
On August 21, James Cramer, the developer behind the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP), announced the launch of the Electron Cash SLP version 3.5. The latest release allows people to create a new type of SLP token called NFT1, a non-fungible token that can be grouped together by a single ID. The advanced form of SLP…
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TomoZ goes live: a frictionless protocol for paying transaction fees in any token issued over TomoChain
TomoChain announced it has launched TomoZ, an on-chain protocol that aims to improve how people pay transaction fees when sending tokens. The ‘Z’ in TomoZ stands for zero friction. Typically, blockchains have always made users pay transaction fees using the native blockchain’s currency, creating additional friction. Often this means that users collect dust in various…
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Alcor Life Extension Foundation Now Accepts Bitcoin Cash Donations
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUUk0jSndoc&w=560&h=349] Alcor Life Extension Foundation has revealed the company is accepting bitcoin cash (BCH) donations. Alcor was convinced by Bitcoin.com’s executive chairman Roger Ver to add BCH acceptance, the same person who convinced Alcor to accept BTC payments via Bitpay back in 2014. The nonprofit organization is well known for its cryonics research and…
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Social Network Memo Adds Decentralized SLP Token Exchange
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vq3rRG85kU&w=560&h=349] The Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP), a token creation system built on top of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network continues to mature as developers have released a number of third-party applications that support SLP tokens. Now the onchain, BCH-based social network Memo.cash has implemented an SLP token exchange allowing people to list SLP tokens…
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Crypto by hype to maturity: Bitcoin, Libra, smart contracts, Lightning, sharding, and more
Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures and co-founder of Coin Metrics, created a matrix chart for some of the crypto-sphere’s most talked about innovations. The chart ranked Bitcoin, protocols, Libra, and other innovations by maturity relative to hype, showing there is still unrecognized potential in many parts of the industry. Ranking crypto concepts…
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Charlie Lee refutes that Litecoin is “being abandoned,” active development continues
Charlie Lee asserted Litecoin development is alive and well. Meanwhile, reports based on the project’s GitHub numbers suggest it is “being abandoned.” GitHub numbers suggest Litecoin is being abandoned? Litecoin has continued to receive scrutiny for its perceived lack of new code development. Electric Capital said Litecoin was “being abandoned,” with the project experiencing a…
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IOTA launches $5 million Coordicide research grant program
IOTA announced a $5 million grant program to contribute to “Coordicide”-related research, the elimination of the project’s centralized coordinating node. IOTA is a cryptocurrency that aims to facilitate IoT transactions by creating a fee-less, highly scalable, asset transfer network. In May 2019, IOTA Foundation announced its push toward Coordicide—a planned upgrade for IOTA which removes…
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Tokens Built on Bitcoin Cash Are Cheaper to Send Than Those of Rival Networks
Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin technology has inspired a lot of innovation spawning a myriad of tokens representing digitized assets. There are now token creation systems on blockchain networks like Omni Layer, Counterparty, and Ethereum. Each framework comes with the cost of sending tokens and right now the Simple Ledger Protocol is one of the cheapest most…