Marco Santori, a lawyer focused on blockchain technology, and Protocol Labs, the startup behind the largest initial coin offering this year, propose pre-sales of utility tokens be treated as securities.
Source: Are ICOs For Utility Tokens Selling Securities? Prominent Crypto Players Say Yes
How the Tides have Turned
Source: POS vs POW revisited – techburst
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Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on a planned hard fork on the Bitcoin network slated for October 25 called Bitcoin Gold (BTG).
Source: A Closer Look at the Suspicious Activity Involved With the Bitcoin Gold Fork – Bitcoin News
With more restriction in China and South Korea, Japan seems to embrace the digital currencies.
For many companies hoping to do commerce via bitcoin, the fees are prohibitive.
Posted in Problems & Solutions
Regarding copy protection of open source blockchain projects, this is indeed a major concern, the risk that someone will copy our source code and create its own competing token is very real, and in fact this happened in practice many times. See Bitcoin clones like Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash or Ethereum’s clone ETC. NXT also had its share of clones like Burst, XEL and others and several other projects which did not copy the code itself but copied many of the ideas like NEM, Waves and others.
Regarding copy protection of open source blockchain projects, this is indeed a major concern, the risk that someone will copy our source code and create its own competing token is very real, and in fact this happened in practice many times. See Bitcoin clones like Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash or Ethereum’s clone ETC. NXT also had its share of clones like Burst, XEL and others and several other projects which did not copy the code itself but copied many of the ideas like NEM, Waves and others.
Source: IOTA’s Copy Protection VS the NXT JPL – Lior Yaffe – Medium
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Japanese authorities are cementing its place as a driving force for bitcoin, at a time when China is turning its back on virtual currencies.
Posted in News
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