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String Labs has announced its program to award grants to innovators building on the Ethereum blockchain. Permissioned ledgers need-not apply. The awards are designed to encourage benefits the granting organization believe are inherent to open, permissionless blockchains.
While bitcoin has long dominated the digital currency space, ether has been grabbing headlines - and trading volume - this week. Many market observers chalked up the recent price increase of ether to ongoing enthusiasm for The DAO, a decentralized group dedicated to funding Ethereum projects through group consensus.
A distributed ledger could help these researchers launch an unstoppable “Human-Whale-Robot-Hybrid” distributed autonomous organization. Far from a mere publicity stunt this project to "save the whales" is backed by big universities and researchers.
A well-known Chinese bitcoin miner gets into Ethereum as a wide range of high-profile organizations begin to capitalize on the digital currency. But with the persistent threat of a 51 percent attack too big a player entering the space comes with its own unique challenges.
Russian payments firm Qiwi is currently designing its own proprietary blockchain system in an effort to replace its central payments database. Called the Qiwi blockchain system, the company’s latest in-house blockchain tech effort seeks to help the firm cut costs while benefitting its 65 million monthly customers.
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