Overview

ZENZO Core v2.1.0 is a highly recommended, but non-mandatory update. This release is available for all of the main operating systems that includes Windows, Mac, and Linux. Version 2.1.0 has a ...wide range of improvements on the network side, as well as the client side. Some of these updates include: a decentralized price display (next to the balance in the GUI, which currently only displays USD, but plans are to include other fiat price tickers and cryptocurrency price tickers), Masternode.conf hot-reloading (users no longer have to restart their wallet to start their masternodes), ZNZ burning (users can now not only burn ZNZ in the debug console, but they can include a unique message that will show on-chain of up to 80 bytes of data), scam protection (when a user types a command in the debug console that could expose private information, they are warned that this may be a scam and not to share this information with anyone), and improved performance and interaction with the ZENZO Forge.

Key Features & Updates:
- Decentralized Price Display (USD)
- Masternode.conf Hot-Reloading (No Restart Needed)
- ZNZ Burning & On-Chain Messaging
- ZENZO Wall (Displays ZNZ Burn Messages in Real-time)
- Scam Protection Warnings (Debug Console)
- Improved Performance & Interaction with the ZENZO Forge
- Increased Security & Stability
- Patch CVE-2018–17145 (INVDoS exploit)

Download the latest ZENZO Core v2.1.0 here!
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After the success of the last 3 volumes of æternity Starfleet, AE Venture brought Starfleet 4 to India.

From the 170+ early-stage startups that applied for the program, 13 startups were selected for a ...one-week-long, super-intense boot camp called Genesis Week.

Only 7 teams were shortlisted for phase two - a four-week mentoring session with the superstar mentor team of AE Ventures.

This aftermovie provides a glimpse of the atmosphere during the accelerator and the Demo day.

Special guest:

Shradha Sharma - Founder, and CEO of Your Story
Wei Zhou - Chief Financial Officer, Binance
Neeraj Khandelwal - Co-founder at CoinDCX
Prashanth Balasubramanian - CEO of Lastbit
Vivek Prakash - Leading Product at BrowserStack and Co-Founder of HackerEarth
Kartik Mandaville - CEO of Springworks
Jason Eisen - Founder & CEO at UTU Technologies
Sriram V Iyer - Vice President and App Engineering at Flipkart
Rama Devi Lanka - Director | Emerging Technologies, The Government of Telangana
Prashanth Swaminathan - Founder, Tandem
Rajesh Dhuddu - Business Head - Cybersecurity & Blockchain at Tech Mahindra


The Starfleet India Accelerator, part of the Aeternity Starfleet program, has picked up three Indian blockchain startups:

Drife
Pontis
Hypermine

and we are providing seed funding for these projects from AE Ventures, CV Labs, and Woodstock funds.

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On August 15 2020, Drife conducted very first driver meetup with about 50 drivers. For it to be safe for everyone and close to a real event, we organized it as a Virtual meet-up. We have tackled critical points... such as what sets Drife apart from its competitors. Needless to say, the Drivers were very excited to be a part of a complete, transparent system that’s also among the Starfleet India winners!

Together with them, Drife will emerge to transform the ride-hailing industry. Our cofounder- Firdosh Sheikh (CEO) was present to personally thank everyone who contributed to make this happen. Our Driver Acquisition Team discussed major advantages of Drife platform that is both advanced, and compliant to industry standards. The Drife team also discussed the roadmap in detail.

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Drife is a decentralized ride-hailing platform which will connect drivers and riders through a mobile application. The platform deals with a whole new economic model that can incentivize all the value creators ...fairly and curb the existent intermediaries.

Ride-hailing platform works on a very broke business model of monetizing and prioritizing profit over its drivers, riders and people at large. Some major issues they face include sky-rocketing commissions that lead to unsustainable driver incomes, price manipulation and unjustified price surges, lack of loyalty and sustained incentivisation, and other centralization centric problems.

The nature of the problem we’re trying to solve requires the underlying blockchain infrastructure to be extremely scalable and fast. A ride-hailing platform is required to clock a high transaction throughput and bandwidth so as to ensure that the platform users are not faced with any latency while availing services. The platform also requires geo-location and geospatial distance data from the external world within the walled garden of a blockchain for the allocation of rides and computation of ride fare prices.

The Æternity blockchain is an Erlang-based scalable smart contract platform that has been redesigned at the protocol level to address some of the most fundamental challenges native to preceding blockchains.

The following are some major technical advantages provided by æternity that stand out for us at Drife as against the other blockchain protocols existing currently in the market.

- Oracles are fundamental to any fully functional decentralized platform that wants to fetch data from the external world. Æternity acknowledges this requirement and integrates oracle services as a part of æternity’s core blockchain protocol. Drife piggybacks on this oracle service integrated at layer 1 to save on efforts and cost of integrating a third-party oracle like Oraclize or ChainLink.

- Æternity runs on the super cool Bitcoin-NG Consensus Algorithm which is the evolved version of the Bitcoin protocol. It still uses Nakamoto consensus but separates leader election and block production by introducing two kinds of blocks called key and micro blocks. Splitting up leader election and block production allows a leader to produce micro blocks in rapid succession, increasing the transaction throughput significantly.

- Unlimited scaling is possible with lightweight and trustless off-chain state channels that are built into æternity’s first layer itself. The state-channels provide support for smart contracts and enable inexpensive private transactions through them.

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https://medium.com/@drife_official/drife-on-%C3%A6ternity-aa26ed2aaf13Show more >

We launched a “Fireside Chat” series to share the journey of blockchain/crypto founders, & are back with another exciting session with Firdosh Sheikh, Co-Founder & CEO of Drife, a decentralized cab book...ing platform on 19th November.

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The Tezos blockchain has collaborated with several Swiss cryptocurrency companies to incorporate bitcoin onto its platform. The move brings Tezos, which has based its foundation in Switzerland, a step closer to... rival blockchain Ethereum.

Launched in 2018 (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/troubled-path_tezos-blockchain-platform-finally-goes-live/44402822), the Tezos blockchain was designed to play host to a new generation of decentralised finance, business and social projects. It competes with a number of other blockchains, including Ethereum, which introduced bitcoin applications more than a year ago.

Ethereum is also backed by a Swiss-based foundation but has drifted away from Switzerland operationally since its launch in 2015. Tezos is a decentralised blockchain that was designed in the United States and largely built in Paris (France). But while its foundation went through a painful chapter of events (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/battle-ended-_tezos-foundation-completes-board-revamp/43931054) two years ago, it has gone to great lengths to highlight a degree of Swissness.

The Tezos Foundation has teamed up with the Bitcoin Association Switzerland and Swiss digital asset service providers Bitcoin Suisse, Bity, Sygnum, Inacta, Lexr and Swiss Crypto Token to create the TZBTC digital token https://tzbtc.io/.

This essentially marries Tezos “smart contracts” with the world’s original cryptocurrency, allowing holders to code commands that transfer bitcoin from one party to another.

“This collaboration demonstrates that Switzerland is still a leader in financial innovation – and not just a place to save taxes,” Tezos foundation operational head Roman Schnider told swissinfo.ch. “TZBTC is probably not for people who are just interested in holding bitcoin as an investment. But it demonstrates that we have the full toolkit available for people who want to create new and agile financial services.”

Blockchain allows people to exchange items of value without the need of third-party intermediaries, such as banks or lawyers. It promises to preserve privacy, add transparency and bring efficiencies to established digital systems.

Source: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/digital-asset_swiss-consortium-launches-bitcoin-on-tezos-blockchain/45677226Show more >

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https://twitter.com/CoinpromoNet/status/1251747805984485377

Right before the halving event, Bitcoin is back at $10 000.
It's back on track after the Coronavirus pandemic hit in late February and prices plunged.

Source: https://bit.ly/3cdE2mZ

Monero is facing significant scrutiny after a few cryptocurrency exchanges announced the delisting of the cryptocurrency. Bithumb was the last one to announce the delisting of XMR after users took to Telegram t...heir concern about Monero being used to purchase child pornography.

The delisting auditory board of Bithumb’s decided on the permanent delisting of Monero, which will be effective from June 1st. Monero is a cryptocurrency built around a security infrastructure that protects people’s identities. It appears to be the preferred method of payment for the Dark Web, which includes significant content on child pornography.

The South Korea police are currently investigating the matter and attempting to track down people who have used the crypto to pay for this type of material.

Bithumb also cited a decrease in XMR trading volumes as a reason to delist the cryptocurrency. Another exchange that also delisted Monero was Huobi due to the scandal. Although they did not quote this as a specific reason for the delisting, reports quickly surged confirming this was the reason behind it.

More crypto exchanges have also begun cooperating with police forces to quickly track down transactions related to the purchasing of child pornography cases. This is good news for the protection of children’s rights everywhere, showing that when it comes to children, their wellbeing will always come before privacy or anonymity.

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https://cryptocoin.news/news/altcoin/monero-gets-delisted-from-major-exchanges-45938/Show more >

We're pleased to receive the FinTech certificate from Singapore FinTech Association (SFA). Onwards and upwards!

https://www.linkedin.com/company/pundix/

A hacker allegedly behind a spate of Twitter account hacks on Wednesday gained access to a Twitter “admin” tool on the company’s network that allowed them to hijack high-profile Twitter accounts to spread a cry...ptocurrency scam, according to a person with direct knowledge of the incident.

Interesting.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/15/twitter-hacker-admin-scam/Show more >

Bitcoin prices were taking flight on Monday, pushing the digital currency to the highest level in about two months and ending the long dormancy of the world’s No. 1 virtual asset.

Bitcoin, the largest ...and most influential cryptocurrency, shot past the key $10,000 resistance marker—all eyes are now on the critical $10,500 level,” wrote Nigel Green, chief executive and founder of deVere Group, a financial firm, advising some $12 billion.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitcoin-surges-over-10-000-could-surpass-15-000-digital-currency-experts-say-11595853676Show more >

Both companies and private individuals will be able to use either Bitcoin or Ether for payments up to CHF100,000.

Thats roughly $110.000

Fully article: https://bit.ly/2QWAixs

The number of hotels with a bitcoin ATM on-site is growing in Switzerland. The latest announcement came from The Dolder Grand, a luxury hotel and spa in Zurich, which recently installed a crypto ATM supporting ...four cryptocurrencies.

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