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- Optimal Mining Strategies: Proof of Idle (slides) by Thaddeus Dryja (be sure to see the comments below the post from yesterday)
- Bitcoin start-up Unocoin gets overseas funding from The Hindu
- BitX to Expand Further in Emerging Markets with New Funding Deal from CoinDesk
- Banks Vie for a Piece of Africa’s Mobile Banking Market from The Wall Street Journal (“Fewer than a quarter of Africans have a bank account, the World Bank says, but 40% have a mobile phone”)
- Secret Sharing and Erasure Coding: A Guide for the Aspiring Dropbox Decentralizer by Vitalik Buterin (perhaps if it is built, hard to see how it will be cheaper than competing services though and may in fact just attract “unwanted” content)
- Cloud mining should be using merkle sum trees to prove they aren’t doing fractional reserve mining by Peter Todd (a follow-up to Gavin Andresen’s recent post)
- Postal Savings Bank of China Restarts QR Code Payment from Kapronasia (see also the new feature in WeChat that allows users to send funds to one another)
- Bitcoin’s Price Falls 12%, to Lowest Value Since May from The New York Times (some interesting quotes from Steven Englander)
- Blockmeta.info (Chinese version of Blockchain.info)
- Fungibility, Privacy & Identity presentation from Adam Back in February 2014
- Notary Chains (has the guy who created Proof of Existence on the team)
- Security in the Blockchain: Past, Present and Future by Shannon Code
- ProzCoin : Proof of Action (PoA) (similar to LTBCoin)
- FoldingCoin (simultaneously mine BTC but also work with Stanford’s cancer research)
- Ribbitcoin (has built in marketplace within the network)
- Russian Tech Magnate’s First Bitcoin Project Launches in Beta from CoinDesk (Blocktrail was finally released to the public. Jop Hartog helped provide feedback with a few articles and the book)
- Re: [ANNOUNCE] Bitcoin Cooperative Proof-of-Stake – CPoS Stephen Reed updated the status of the project he announced several months ago
- Gartner’s 2014 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Maps the Journey to Digital Business from Gartner
- If you had to invest $10 million into one Bitcoin related company, and it can’t be your own, which company would you invest in? Why? from Zapchain (most answers are people just pumping their own investments, I thought Teemu Päivinen’s answer was interesting)
- The Bitcoin Service Provider: New Tenant Class for Data Centers from Data Center Knowledge (“A key requirement in a Bitcoin mining data center is high density, as racks of mining rigs can run at 20 kilowatts and higher. The 87,000-square-foot DEN2 facility, built in 2012, was designed to support higher loads”)
- Cryptofinance by Campbell Harvey (some interesting charts, especially about volatility towards the end)
- Coinmap, number of venues from Bitcoin Pulse (how many are unaccounted for; how many are venues that accept it full-time; how many venues have removed acceptance?)
- Bitcoin prices flash crash on BTC-e due to margin calls by Raffael Danielli (follow-up to the piece from last week on Bitfinex)