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law and legislation
Judge Dismisses Winklevoss Lawsuit Against Charlie Shrem
Judge Jed Rakoff of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the Winklevoss case against Charlie Shrem in which the twins allege Shrem stole $26 million worth of cryptocurrency. The judge said a settlement was reached, though details of the settlement are confidential. Either party can reopen the case by May 5 if not completely satisfied.
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application
Grassroots Economics Using Community Currency To Help Kenya's Underbanked
Economist Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics developed the Sarafu Network to allow Kenyans to swap digital currency via a smartphone app. The network is intended to bring financial services to those who traditionally lack access to them.
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business and finance
Research Shows Big Corporations Investing In Blockchain While Shunning Crypto
Research conducted by PitchBook reveals that investments in cryptocurrency and blockchain startups by venture capitalists have reached $850 million in the first four months of 2019. However, corporations such as the London Stock Exchange Group and Microsoft are still unwilling to invest directly in cryptocurrency.
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wallets and exchanges
Binance Hoping To Entice Ethereum Projects To Its Own Blockchain
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao is encouraging developers working on the Ethereum platform to bring their projects to Binance Chain. CZ is hoping the firm's longevity and influence will convince developers to make the move.
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world
World Bank And IMF Prepare For Central Bank Digital Currencies
During this year's "Spring Meetings," Swedish central bank deputy governor Cecilia Skingsley said the Risbank is more likely than not to issue a CBDC within a decade.
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technology
CasperLabs Says It's Put Scalable PoS Blockchain On Testnet
Co-founder Steven Nerayoff and lead developer Michael Birch break down sharding, the pros and cons of proof of stake versus proof of work, and CasperLabs' internal governance system.
Ecosystem Updates
Geth "Punisher" Hotfix (4/17)
Ethereum developers recently released Geth v1.8.27 to counter an active mainnet attack. The release also helps to sync the chain quicker. See More
"The Generalised Hyperbolic Distribution and Its Subclass in the Analysis of a New Era of Cryptocurrencies: Ethereum and Its Financial Risk" (4/9)
Researchers Yuanyuan Zhang, Jeffrey Chu, Stephen Chan, and Brandon Chan found that the market index returns for Ethereum are "clearly non-normal." In this paper, they try to determine what some of the long-term effects will be. See More
Week in Ethereum (4/12)
The rundown on the latest standards being discussed, new client releases for Geth and Parity, and a link to the latest core devs call. See More
"Estimation (Approximate) of the Size of Contracts in Ethereum" (4/10)
Ethereum researcher Alexey Akhunov explains why it would be useful for Ethereum to "track the size of the contract storage for each contract." See More
