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Bitcoin Community is Withering—It has Lost the Excellent Circle

Bitcoin Community is Withering—It has Lost the Excellent Circle

Background Though China has long been puzzled by its brain drain in the form of elite emigrati...

Charlie Lee AMA:mining pools are trying to force the developers to make a hard fork

Charlie Lee AMA:mining pools are trying to force the developers to make a hard fork

On 8th Feb, Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin, host an AMA on 8btc. The event lasts 2 hours ...

Blockchain software security report by China CERT, Ripple the worst

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News March 17, 2017 Qtum’s Amazing Crowdsale: 9M USD worth raised in 90 minutes

Qtum’s Amazing Crowdsale: 9M USD worth raised in 90 minutes

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News March 14, 2017 Why Bitcoin may benefit from the FED interest rate hike?

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News March 14, 2017 GPU-Pandaminer B1 soldout among Price Surge of XMR and DASH

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News March 14, 2017 GPU-Pandaminer B1 soldout among Price Surge of XMR and DASH

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Blockchain

BitFury and BestSign Trying to Make Blockchain the Future of Electronic Signatures

BitFury and BestSign Trying to Make Blockchain the Future of Electronic Signatures March 20, 2017

BitFury is a leading full service blockchain technology company and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the blockchain ecosystem. And BestSign is an electronic signature company based in Hangzhou, China that has been dubbed as Chinese Docu...

Blockchain Startup Yuanben Trying to Crackdown Piracy in China

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Bitcoin

Are You Worried If Bitcoin Hardfork Will Be the Next Ethereum Failure?

Are You Worried If Bitcoin Hardfork Will Be the Next Ethereum Failure? March 21, 2017

On March 19, Bitclub Network mined its first Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) block as the mining operation is now signaling support for the protocol. And On March 17 Antpool pointed 75 percent of its hashrate towards BU and by the end of the evening...

Op-ed: why people choose onchain scaling and oppose Core and SW

4 Things I Learned as A Bitcoin Holder

ETH connected with MLM while Bitcoin losing on marketcap share

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Press-release

GPU-Pandaminer B1 soldout among Price Surge of XMR and DASH

GPU-Pandaminer B1 soldout among Price Surge of XMR and DASH March 14, 2017

Since our report on PandaMiner B1 at the end of last year, the products have been sought-after globally. This article contains a detailed user instruction of PandaMiner B1 and the company's future plan to launch new version of PandaMiner. PandaMiner B1 P...

Shenzhen Forms Syntron and IBM Collaborating on Launch of Blockchain Solution for Hongkong Businesses

Hyperledger to kick-off 1st Asian blockchain hackathon in Shanghai　

OKLink incorporates Vietnam into cross-border remittance network

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Mining

Why CANOEPOOL supports bitcoin unlimited?

Why CANOEPOOL supports bitcoin unlimited? February 27, 2017

Chinese Twitter account cnLedger revealed recently that a new mining pool by the name of CANOE was online. The pool was attracting much attention in China for signaling the Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) software client, which adds to another mining pool supportin...

Miners deep inside China’s Western desolate mountains

PandaMiner B1+ the world’s first GPU-integrated cryptocurrency miner

Illegal Bitcoin mining farm cracked down by Chinese police

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Technologies

CTO’s Read: Mainstream Blockchain Architectures’ Analysis by Antshares’ Erik Zhang

CTO’s Read: Mainstream Blockchain Architectures’ Analysis by Antshares’ Erik Zhang February 15, 2017

The original text is written by Erick Zhang in Chinese on Chinese site of 8btc. (see article). Erik Zhang, the brain behind Antshares. Contact him: [email protected] Antshares Whitepaper. I.A General-knowledge lesson on Blockchain Since ...

China company to build world’s first “Blockchain Farm” with IOT data

WINGS picks Chandler Guo to access Chinese exchanges, Ethereum Classic community

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Reviews

Op-ed: Impossible to de-Chinalize Bitcoin

Note: the blog is written by Huang Siliang, an opinion le...

Why Bitcoin price may not crash like 2013

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The Economic Principle of Blockchain Application

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Three Concerns behind efforts of China’s Central Bank in Digital currency

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Blockchain VC Says No to Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)

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Richard G. Kastelein

Chinese Investors Turn to Bitcoin Amid Yuan Depreciation

The continuous devaluation of the Yuan has increased deman...

Yuan Internationalization Will Lead to Growth for Bitcoin

On October 1 of this year, the IMF added the Chinese Y...

Ethereum vs Ethereum: Which Is the Ship of Theseus?

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What Is the True Meaning of “Decentralization” in Blockchain Technology?

Recent years have brought significant misunderstanding of...

The Impossible Trinity: Security, Environment Protection and Decentralization

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“Decentralized”, you keep using that word but I don’t think it means what you think it means…

Bitcoin is decentralized, but it probably doesn‘t mean wha...

The Pirates of 8BTC: Implement the Idea of Distributed Autonomous Corporations

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Interview

Summary of Chinese articles that support softfork scaling

Summary of Chinese articles that support softfork scaling

Ma Long, or better known as Maya/Cndx in Chinese Bitcoin community, is a S...

BTC38 to Offer 0% Transaction Fee for Company Account

BTC38 to Offer 0% Transaction Fee for Company Account

On 5th Dec, BTC38 introduced company account verification and 0% transactio...

Joint-interview: on Collaboration between WINGS and China’s Antshare

Joint-interview: on Collaboration between WINGS and China’s Antshare

When it comes to bitcoin and blockchain technology, China and Western commun...

Qtum Introduce Master Contract and ID Identification Option into Blockchain

Qtum Introduce Master Contract and ID Identification Option into Blockchain

The Qtum open-source community released its whitepaper: Value Transfer Ne...

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