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How Smart Contracts Could Revolutionize Online Gambling: FunFair and Virtue Poker Face Off in Merkle Exclusive Interview

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Online gambling is estimated to be a $50-300 billion dollar business worldwide. Yet while it’s a huge market, the current centralized model poses problems for players, casinos, and others acting in the space. Both FunFair and Virtue Poker seek to fundamentally change this industry through decentralization. If their bets are right, all parties will benefit from a fairer … Read more

What Is DocTailor?

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Smart contracts can offer a lot of functionality in the years to come. Right now, it is all about perfecting the technology and discovering new use cases. DocTailor may check a lot of the right boxes in this regard, as it aims to become a self-customizable, legally binding smart contract platform. Finding More Use Cases … Read more

Bitcoin Cash Proponents Prepare for the Largest Block Size Increase Ever

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In a little more than three weeks time the Bitcoin (BCH) network will hard fork by upgrading its block size to 32MB and incorporate additional functionalities to the protocol. Currently, the entire community is steadily preparing for the consensus change as development teams release new code, while users and infrastructure providers upgrade their full node … Read more

Five Reasons Why Bitcoin Cash is About to Win Big

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Cryptocurrency markets have started to rebound in value as the spring begins in 2018, but one particular cryptocurrency — bitcoin cash — has been on a relentless upswing as the network approaches another hard fork this May. This year traders and bitcoin cash (BCH) proponents believe the decentralized digital currency and the BCH network has … Read more

Op-Codes and Scripting Capabilities Coming to Bitcoin Cash

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Over the past few weeks, the bitcoin cash (BCH) community has been discussing the use of ‘op-codes’ with the BCH chain. The technology could allow the creation of different types of metadata implementations like colored coins and representative tokens, alongside the ability to perform smart contracts, but in a more simplified manner as opposed to … Read more

Nchain to Offer Smart Contract Patents Exclusively to the Bitcoin Cash Community

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According to the blockchain firm Nchain and its CEO Jimmy Nguyen, the company has secured its first approved patent recognized by the European Patent Office. The patent involves an invention that provides a method for an automated management and blockchain-enforced smart contracts. Also Read: Australia’s Digitalx Launches Cryptocurrency Investment Fund   Blockchain Firm Nchain Gets an … Read more

Over 50 Teams Enter £5 Million Bitcoin Cash Tokenization Contest

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A great multitude of groups have entered the race to tokenize bitcoin cash (BCH). Developers are energized by a £5 million prize to bring this functionality to the cryptocurrency’s ecosystem, which means we might soon see smart contracts implemented with BCH. Also Read: Stanford, Wharton and Georgetown Expand Bitcoin Business Classes £5 Million in Bitcoin … Read more