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The Ethereum Music Video by Eric Pryde

This is a great bit of video graphics work developed around a fantastic piece of music, adopted as a semi-official music video for the Ethereum platform. Well worth watching and sharing among your friends.[...]

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How to trade Ether

The hottest new altcoin on the block is Ether (ETH). Ether is the token used to power the Ethereum protocol’s smart contracts. Now that Ether is freely tradable, this post will explain the different ways to express bullish and bearish[...]

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Governments Should Restructure Around Blockchains

There needs to be a progression towards restructuring our governments, corporations and relationships around the predictability and purity of the mathematical and computing wonder we have in Blockchain technology.[...]

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Ethereum Basics

Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.

What is a DApp?

DApps (pronounced Dee-apps) are a new model for building successful and massively scalable applications. Bitcoin led the way with its open-source, peer-to-peer nature, cryptographically-stored records (block chain), and limited number of tokens that power the use of its features.

  1. The application must be completely open-source, it must operate autonomously, and with no entity controlling the majority of its tokens. The application may adapt its protocol in response to proposed improvements and market feedback but all changes must be decided by consensus of its users.
  2. The application's data and records of operation must be cryptographically stored in a public, decentralizedblockchain in order to avoid any central points of failure.
  3. The application must use a cryptographic token which is necessary for access to the application and any contribution of value from (miners / farmers) should be rewarded in the application’s tokens.
  4. The application must generate tokens according to a standard crytptographic algorithm acting as a proof of the value nodes are contributing to the application (Proof of Work or Proof of Stake Algorithms).
What is a DAO?

A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), fully automated business entity (FAB), or distributed autonomous corporation/company (DAC) is a decentralized network of narrow-AI autonomous agents which perform an output-maximizing production function and which divides its labor into computationally intractable tasks.

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