EtherEx – Decentralized Exchange On The Ethereum Protocol

The Ethereum ecosystem has been attracting a lot of attention from both within and outside of the digital currency ecosystem in recent months. Most people attribute this to recent Ethereum price increase, but it can also be attributed to the number of projects set to launch in the next few months. EtherEx, a decentralized digital currency exchange, will be launching shortly after being in development for two years.

BitShares Dev Hangout with bytemaster on Licensing

On this weeks BitShares Developer Hangout, Dan Larimer of Cryptonomex discusses licensing, bond market, referrals, worker proposals, fees and he answers Community questions.

Beyond Bitcoin Developer Hangout with Bytemaster (E111) 10-9-15

[00:02:21] bytemaster: We’ve been working really hard on finishing up the wallet details. 

[00:04:58] bytemaster: The other recent change is we’re limiting the number of signatures per transaction to five.

[00:15:02] bytemaster: As someone who has been a hard money fan, gold and silver as the only true money before getting into crypto, I understand where they’re coming from. It all comes down to governance. Whether your monies fiat or gold and silver or crypto, everything is going to be on ledgers. You’re not going to be dealing with physical gold and silver coins it just does not make sense in a digital world. Even if the bank that you’re using has gold and silver on deposit, well at the end of the day you’re trusting their ledger and their accounting to keep track of IOU’s for the gold and silver. At the end of the day if you have an IOU for gold and silver that gold and silver can be compromised and the IOU’s can be defaulted.

Full Hangout and Transcript

Bitshares & Bitcoin 2 0 The blockchain as platform and ecosystem - Manuel Lains & Christian Lains  

Since Christian cuts my paycheck (on the blockchain) each week, here’s a little plug. ;)

BitShares 2.0 SmartCoin Tech Overview

Excerpts from the BrotherJohnF Hangout on Beyond Bitcoin

[00:01:19] fuzzy: brotherjohnf teaches people about the power of the people’s money, otherwise known as silver. It becomes apparent as you listen to our conversation why we cover both cryptocurrency and hard money as tools to fight against the current financial vampires.

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[00:03:26] brotherjohnf: I started off in the silver community with my Silver for the People website, it’s based on the idea that silver is their Achilles heel, “they” being the banksters. They are absolutely vulnerable to physical silver. It’s the stake in the heart of the bankster vampires. It’s the bullet that slays the Wall Street werewolves. It is their key weakness.

It’s fun but ...

We’ll be glad when the “Wild West” days of cryptocurrency are behind us. We’d still like to be able to visit the Wild West ... whenever we got the itch, but when it comes to exchanges, we don’t like to play games with people who like to rig the games ... and all the games are rigged.

We don’t want every single day of our lives to feel like ... we’ve just handed a few hundred dollars to someone and we’re not sure if we will ever see them again. We don’t even care if we’re playing on an even field most times, we’re expecting the odds to be against us going in, but we still expect to win.

And that’s exactly what it’s like when dealing with centralized cryptocurrency exchanges. We’re all taking a big risk right now, hoping for the big payoffs, sooner or later. The longer someone’s willing to wait, the bigger the payoff (usually) and the bigger the risk.

However, even when attempting to make a small percentage gain with quick moves, you can get burned by these centralized exchanges. Sooner or later, those of us placing a lot of medium sized orders on centralized exchanges, getting on and off the exchange as fast as possible, with a sum of crypto just enough to make a nice profit from yet not enough to threaten your roll if lost ... stolen, “stolen”, hacked, “hacked” or scammed away ... will have exactly that happen.

Large projects like BitShares, MaidSafe or PeerTracks and smaller one’s like Qora and CIYAM are all doing their part to decentralize the way we all interact with each other and with our money. Each of them are playing a part in taking control, from centralized groups, of the internet, the financial services industry and the music industry and placing each individual in control.

By using decentralized blockchain technology, “blockchain-less” consensus mechanisms, smart contracts, smartchains, smartcoins, bitAssets, atomic cross-chain transactions and more, they will offer individuals the ability to take control of the privacy and security of their own finances and a global system of interconnected computer networks.

There are many other projects out there attempting this same goal. We have listed the projects we have researched, some for years, and determined we would support these projects. Do your own research, but please get behind any project that is attempting to decentralize the way individual’s interact in their personal and business lives.

Decentralize everything!

Peak Venture Group Adopts the BitShares Network

Peak Venture Group has announced the adoption of the BitShares 2.0 platform to integrate into their existing business.

Why Third Parties Will Be Eliminated From the Internet (Op-Ed)