BlogHide Resteemsblocktrades (74)in blocktrades • 5 years agoBlockTrades will soon be offering full exchange services (in addition to “instant exchange” service)Until now, BlockTrades has only offered an “instant exchange” service, similar to a currency exchange at a bank or at an airport. This form of exchange service is generally easier to use and less…blocktrades (74)in steem • 5 years agoWhy I won’t be compromising with Justin SunAt this point, it seems like most of the community is in agreement on one thing: they don’t want Justin Sun here. The primary disagreement seems to be how to achieve that. From what I’ve been told…blocktrades (74)in blockchain • 5 years agoThe History of Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPOS)DPOS (aka Delegated Proof-of-Stake) was invented by Daniel Larimer as a replacement for the Proof-Of-Work consensus algorithm used by Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies at that time. All the…blocktrades (74)in blocktrades • 5 years agoBlockTrades' Steem wallet is temporarily disabledOur Steem wallet is shutdown until the crisis around the takeover attempt by Justin Sun is resolved. This is necessary in order to prevent the Steemit tokens that were promised for blockchain…blocktrades (74)in cryptocurrency • 5 years agoCryptocurrency forks: why do they happen and what happens after?This is my promised follow-up post to my previous post on the legal basis for cryptocurrency forks . In this post I’ll discuss some of the potential economic results of a cryptocurrency fork.…blocktrades (74)in cryptocurrency • 5 years agoThe Legal Basis of Cryptocurrency ForksPrologue: The recent confusion in comments I’ve seen about legal property rights and cryptocurrency forks, led me to write this post. This post has some passing relationship to my previous post on…blocktrades (74)in cryptocurrency • 5 years agoThe Fundamental Underpinning of Blockchain ConsensusAll peer-to-peer blockchains operate under some form of consensus. People often talk about the rules of the blockchain as defining the terms of that consensus, which is true in some sense, but very…resteemedspaminator (68)in spaminator • 5 years agoHacker Warning: Victims Come Forward!Recently a new type of hacker has been active. The hacker account name is @test240 and what it does is steal both STEEM and SBD from it's victims. It does not change keys or do anything that isn't…blocktrades (74)in news • 5 years agoTime to boycott Rambler.ru if you use it in any wayI came across this article today about the Rambler Group causing the offices of NGINX in Moscow to be raided: Quick summary of the article Russian police raided the NIGNX office in Moscow…blocktrades (74)in blocktrades • 5 years agoUS traders can now buy/sell EOS on BlockTradesPreviously, we required users to prove they weren’t US citizens or residents before we allowed them to buy EOS on our site, because we were concerned that the ICO that was done for EOS made it an…blocktrades (74)in writing • 5 years agoAlice has 5 ice cubes, Bob takes 3, how many ice cubes does Alice have left for her afternoon Thai iced tea?If you’re good at solving word problems from elementary math, you’ve probably answered “2” (or even if you weren’t great at word problems, since this is a particularly simple example of such a…blocktrades (74)in blocktrades • 5 years agoPoloniex being sold off and new company is dropping US customersThis isn't a big issue, as far as I'm concerned, we already closed our account at Poloniex a while back. Their service had become terrible (deposit/withdrawal paths were often down). And most…blocktrades (74)in blocktrades • 5 years agoBlockTrades adds support for USD Tether coins (USDT_OMNI and USDT_ERC20)You can now purchase crypto on BlockTrades using the two most popular USD Tether coins, USDT_OMNI and USDT_ERC20. USDT_OMNI is an omni-based coin that operates on top of the Bitcoin network.…blocktrades (74)in blockchain • 5 years agoDeleted, accidental double post.blocktrades (74)in blockchain • 5 years agoImplementation of jurisdictional agility in BEOS blockchainPreface: A while back I made an introductory post that described how jurisdictional agility (the ability for blockchain users to choose in which jurisdiction their transaction takes place…blocktrades (74)in steem • 5 years agoIn support of inertia's Steem documentation proposal (an SPS proposal)I was reviewing proposals listed under the SPS system today and noted that inertia's latest proposal to continue documenting the Steem API and best practices for working with this API isn't…blocktrades (74)in bitshares • 5 years agoUsing a BitShares Decentralized Exchange (DEX) market for BitUSD and BitCNY pricefeedsNote: This is a somewhat in-depth article on theories of how to maintain the pegging mechanism for stable coins on the BitShares blockchain. As such, it may be outside the interest of many of our…blocktrades (74)in blocktrades • 5 years agoBlockTrades is once again accessible directly from BitShares walletWe've updated the BitShares wallet hosted on to allow directly purchasing BitShares-related tokens from BlockTrades using the wallet. This feature is mainly useful to BitShares token…blocktrades (74)in blocktrades • 5 years agoBitShares wallet operational again on BlockTrades after blockchain haltThe BitShares blockchain was halted for several hours today due to an uncaught exception during block processing. The core team delivered a fix for this issue and the blockchain is fully functional…blocktrades (74)in blocktrades • 5 years agoBlockTrades Steem wallet is operational againYesterday, the new Steem code had another "gotcha": this time in code related to the new 'mildly non-linear curation curve'. The error took longer to debug than the previous bugs, but Steemit…
