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@kjnk Mar 9, 2018, 3:58 AM UTC

NEO's blockchain goes under maintenance as blockchain stalls again

Following recent accusations by authors from Bitcoin.com and StoreOfValueBlog.com that NEO's blockchain has performance problems, the blockchain is exhibiting growing pains again (see NEO Is Either a…

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kjnk
@kjnk Feb 19, 2018, 10:22 PM UTC

Popular cryptocurrency youtuber spouts nonsense in a review video

I was recently trying to learn more about a new cryptocurrency project, Ontology, and I tried to hit up YouTube to find some informative reviews. I encountered this video by Crypto Zombie titled: "On…

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kjnk
@kjnk Feb 19, 2018, 4:23 AM UTC

Propy fails to pay $200,000 in prize money to WCEF hackathon winners

The World Cryptocurrency Economic Forum, or WCEF, held a hackathon and a conference in the Bay Area in January this year. Propy, a real estate cryptocurrency project, was the title sponsor of the hac…

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kjnk
@kjnk Feb 19, 2018, 1:58 AM UTC

Warning: yet another coin is being pumped on /r/cryptocurrency right now

If you've been browsing /r/cryptocurrency over the past couple months, you'll have noticed a surge in popularity for Oyster Pearl, seemingly out of nowhere. Here's a quick TLDR on Oyster Pearl: a dec…

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kjnk
@kjnk Feb 18, 2018, 9:21 PM UTC

A Quick Classification of Cryptocurrency Consensus Algorithms

I often like to say that if cryptocurrencies was a religion, then the consensus algorithm is its god. A cryptocurrency's consensus algorithm is core to its functionality. The consensus algorithm make…

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kjnk
@kjnk Feb 18, 2018, 1:07 AM UTC

Telegram raises an insane $850M in its ICO presale

Telegram announced that it was holding an ICO to build its very own blockchain, Telegram Open Network (TON), in December last year. For those that don't know what Telegram is, it's a very popular mes…

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kjnk
@kjnk Feb 16, 2018, 10:40 AM UTC

The cryptocurrency dump of January 2018 in a few images

As we're on the cusp of another bull run, let's not get complacent and remember what it looked and felt like during the bear run in January. Complacency and euphoria caused many of us to hold bags ne…

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kjnk
@kjnk Feb 16, 2018, 10:07 AM UTC

Warning: a new coin is being pumped on /r/cryptocurrency

EDIT: for those saying paid Reddit shilling can be a good thing, consider this. Every front page slot that these paid posts takes up takes away from another higher quality post that could've been the…

25 upvotes 6 replies $1.17
kjnk
@kjnk Feb 12, 2018, 12:52 AM UTC

How does Steem achieve free and fast transactions?

The most remarkable property of Steem is free and fast transactions. There are a few other cryptocurrencies that achieve this but they are all DAG-based while Steem is a single threaded blockchain li…

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kjnk
@kjnk Feb 10, 2018, 10:58 PM UTC

Steem is underappreciated but revolutionary

Cryptocurrencies have always had a problem with user interfaces and user experiences (UI/UX). When you send Bitcoin or Ethereum, not only are the wallet interfaces usually not intuitive, but there ar…

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