EtherWorld’s weekly— Issue 42

(Blockchain eNewspaper)

Quote of the week

"A blockchain is like writing a book where everyone pays a huge amount of resources just for the chance to add a new page. You get a reward, but it’s only valid if the person who writes the next page (and everyone afterwards, forever!) agree that your page followed all the rules." - Alex Van De Sande

News

World news

• Arizona Senate Passes Bill To Allow Tax Payments In Bitcoin
• Shopify integrates 'Coinbase Commerce' - a new digital currency payment method for ecommerce
• Spanish Party Weighs Tax Incentives to Lure Blockchain Firms
• Russia Opens the First Blockchain School in Moscow
• CSE Unveils Canada’s First Platform for Clearing and Settling Securities through Blockchain Technology
• Universities are offering blockchain courses - The New York Times
• Thousands of Government Websites Hacked to Mine Cryptocurrencies
• Banning cryptocurrency would be as sensible as banning the internet - The Hill
• Cryptocurrency mining in Iceland is using so much energy, the electricity may run out
• Microsoft - Decentralized Digital Identities and Blockchain. Forbes
  • ID2020 - AN ALLIANCE COMMITTED TO IMPROVING LIVES THROUGH DIGITAL IDENTITY

Ethereum News

• Ether Scam Alert!!
• Forbes Quote Of The Day: Vitalik Buterin
• Ethereum Dev Yoichi Hirai Steps Away From Role As EIP Editor, Raises Questions About Process
• ETHGlobal: supporting ethereum hackathons around the world
• Infura Debuts New Visual Identity as Daily Requests Top 6 Billion
• Twitter of MyEtherWallet is back with MEW team. MyCrypto statement.
• Reminder to crypto investors by Vitalik
  

Technology

Developer's Update

• Constantinople EIPs and Ethereum Core Dev meeting #33 highlights
• Geth 1.8 – Iceberg¹ released on Feb 14, 2018.
• Solidity 0.4.20 released on Feb 14, 2018.
• EIP 867: Standardized Ethereum Recovery Proposals is closed.
• EIP 858: Reduce block reward

Good Reads on Blockchain

• A signaling theory model of cryptocurrency issuance and value by Vitalik Buterin.
• Understanding blockchain technology
• Blockchain Basics - A Guide to Understanding Blockchain and Ethereum for Non-Developer Audiences by ConsenSys Academy

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Vlad Zamfir on blockchain governance
• TrueBit – Blockchain Verification on Steroids with Jason Teutsch
• Crypto 101 podcast with Taylor M, CEO MyCrypto.
• Shapeshift's Erik Voorhees on How Crypto Will Separate Money and State

Projects

New Projects and White Paper

• CryptoGrow - Home to CryptoGrow DAC and the CryptoPatent Blockchain
• Colorado Coin - A Corporeal CryptoCoin for Coloradians. GitHub
• Witnet - Connecting smart contracts to any external data source
• Space Decentral - a decentralized space program, connecting thousands of engineers, scientists, and future astronauts, to devise and fund next-generation space initiatives.

Project updates and Press Release

• Auctus joins the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
• FOAM joins Ethereum Enterprise Alliance
• Golem Announcing Ethereum Community Fund
• Viberate joins the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
• ETHLend Joins The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
• OmiseGo
• When is CryptoKitties coming to Greater China?
• Dether: Next Big Steps After the Token Sale
• Digix 2.0 Proof of Asset Demo on Kovan!
• ICONOMI - Join the community on Rocketchat
• Monero - PoW change and key reuse
• NEO will airdrop ONT to the community

Trading

• Behind the Scenes of a Cryptocurrency Exchange: Secrets, Strategies, and More
• Einstein Exchange listed IOTA

Miscellaneous

Bounty and Hackathon

• ETC multisig wallet bug bounty - Bugbounty is relevant from February 12, 2018 to February 19, 2018.

Hiring

• Hiring Full Stack Blockchain Systems Architect - Gold Coast, AUS

Events

• Feb 27, 2018 - ConsenSys Ethereum Meetup San Francisco - Blockchain 101
• Feb 27, 2018 - Blockchain Xplore
• Feb 28, 2018: IFZ FinTech Conference - Zug, Switzerland,
• Mar 1-4, 2018:Crypto Virtual Summit - Online
• Mar 8-10, 2018: Ethereum Community Conference - Paris
• Mar 10, 2018: Crypto Investor Show - London, UK
• Mar 15, 2018: Token Fest Conference, San Francisco, US
• Apr 25-26, 2018: Crypto World Journal
• May 11-12, 2018: Ethereal Summit at the Knockdown Center in NYC.

ICO

• ICO or Token Sale Calendar
  

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