Coin Prices

BNB

$234.59

2.13%

XRP

$0.644287

1.97%

EOS

$0.766515

2.50%

Bonk

$0.00001152

32.48%

Pepe

$0.00000155

7.79%

NEM

$0.03921938

4.10%

WAX

$0.066592

3.16%

IOST

$0.00986039

5.09%

Kin

$0.0000228

1.83%

OST

$0.00031935

-2.90%
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Jaime Chacon

Jaime Chacon

Jaime is a freelance writer and information-systems professional with experience in the analysis, design & implementation of various technologies, applications and platforms for blockchain, government, healthcare and financial industries. He's based in Puerto Rico. Disclosure: He owns less than 2 BTC and more than 10 ETH.

Stories by Jaime Chacon

  • Presearch is a decentralized search engine. Image: Shutterstock

    Google Competitor Presearch Launches Decentralized Search Engine

    Blockchain-based startup Presearch has released a decentralized search engine to help provide a more private alternative to Google. Taking a play out of privacy-centric web browser Brave’s book, it also rewards its users with it native crypto token, PRE.  The Ethereum-based project uses searches powered by independent nodes to help protect the identity of the people who make queries for data. Moreover, it puts a dent in the monopolistic power of Google to organize and rank results.  Amidst a gr...

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    How crypto can help make Andrew Yang's ‘data dividend’ a reality

    Former presidential candidate and crypto advocate Andrew Yang took to the op-ed pages of the LA Times on Tuesday to lay out his vision for how to make companies pay for their users’ data. And lucky for Yang and his acolytes, there are crypto startups already working to make this happen. In his op-ed, Yang announced the creation of a public-benefit corporation, the Data Dividend Project, which aims to help enable people to control the use of their data and allow for compensation of approved use o...

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    Compound is the new king of DeFi after just one day of COMP trading

    The rapidly growing decentralized finance industry has a new top crypto. Compound’s COMP token went live for trading yesterday, and it has already overtaken Maker, the previous king of DeFi, in market capitalization by a wide margin.  COMP not only surpassed MakerDAO, it now has close to twice as much total market cap at roughly $859 million versus $551 million, according to DeFi data tracking website DeFiMarketCap. What’s more, the addition of COMP to the ranking has sent the total market capit...

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    New law threatens Puerto Rico’s status as crypto tax haven

    Crypto investors and entrepreneurs looking to take advantage of Puerto Rico’s favorable tax incentives will now find it more costly to do so. Late last week, Governor Wanda Vazquez signed Law 40-2020 into effect, which made a key change to the rules that govern tax incentives for new residents. Previously, investors who moved to the island and applied for these incentives were required to pay a yearly fee of $300 for the privilege. The new law increases that yearly fee to $5,000. The Puerto Rica...

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    FIO protocol aims to make crypto transactions easy, but still private

    There’s a new way to send and receive crypto while avoiding complicated, hard-to-remember addresses--and it’s got the support of some major players in the industry. The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) protocol, which last year raised $5.7 million in a Series A led by Binance Labs, went live with its mainnet earlier this week. The idea behind the FIO protocol is to help improve usability of crypto products and grow mainstream adoption with easy to remember addresses and domain names....

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    Building a blockchain island in Puerto Rico

    SAN JUAN—Is Puerto Rico any closer to becoming the “crypto haven” that blockchain entrepreneurs and investors once promised? The attendees of Thursday’s fourth-annual CoinAgenda Caribbean conference in San Juan certainly think so. A mix of local crypto enthusiasts and tourists gathered on the island late last week to discuss Puerto Rico’s potential as a hub of blockchain investing and industry. Its speaker list featured heavyweight crypto luminaries who have spent considerable time and money in...

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    The first Bitcoin ATM in El Salvador is now live

    The Café Cocoa shop in the city of La Libertad is now the first location in El Salvador with a Bitcoin ATM. The ATM also allows people visiting the store in the tourist area of El Zonte beach to buy and sell Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. The crypto ATM is operated by the Chicago-based Athena Bitcoin, which currently operates nearly 100 Bitcoin ATMs across the United States and South America. The system allows users to purchase the digital tokens without the need for a bank account or credit card. A...

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    Bitcoin bet for charity turns ugly

    What started out as a friendly wager between cryptocurrency celebs has ended in a nasty Twitter dispute. During the 2018 World Crypto Con conference in Las Vegas, a $28,000 Bitcoin price prediction resulted in a bet between Civic cofounder Vinny Lingham and Standpoint Research founder Ronnie Moas. Bitcoin did not hit the $28,000 as predicted by @RonnieMoas when we made the bet in Vegas in 2018. Ronnie - please post proof of payment of the donation and thanks for being a good sport! Happy New Ye...

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    Kraken adds Tezos staking rewards, XTZ price surges 10 percent

    San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken today announced that it will begin offering token staking services that will compensate crypto wallet holders with financial rewards.  Tezos will be the first available cryptocurrency token to be staked from Friday, December 13, with a prospective 6% annual return. The exchange will earn a percentage of the block validation rewards. Kraken said its goal is to make staking more accessible in order to encourage more participation in cryptocurrency...

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    Block.one’s EOS-based Facebook alternative gets a launch date

    Block.one, the company behind the EOS blockchain protocol, announced a roadmap yesterday that sets a date for its long-anticipated, social-media platform called Voice. Users who receive early access to Voice will be the first to test the EOS-powered network on February 14, 2020. The beta program, according to the firm’s announcement, will be used for trial and error to ensure a focus on the users and to strengthen security. The initial version will be available in English only. Earlier this year...

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    Gladius Network shuts down as ICO investors cry foul

    The Gladius Network, a cybersecurity company that raised nearly $13 million in an ICO in late 2017, has shut down. The company’s co-founder and CTO, Alex Godwin, made the announcement over the weekend via the firm’s official Telegram channel. “We regret to inform you that Gladius Network LLC has ceased operations effective immediately and has filed for dissolution,” Godwin said in a statement signed by the “Gladius Team.” The company, which earlier this year settled with the SEC over its unregis...

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    Cryptopia liquidator calls on token developers to help return hacked funds

    Cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia suffered a business-ending hack earlier this year when cyber criminals looted the firm of more than $16 million-worth of Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens. Now, the long, arduous process of sorting out that mess presses forward, with token developers scheduled to meet tomorrow, October 7, to lend a hand. Just weeks ago, the New Zealand-based accounting firm Grant Thornton, responsible for leading Cryptopia’s liquidation process, reached out via email to affected token...

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    Substratum burns through $13 million in ICO funds in two years, lays off staff

    Substratum entered the crypto scene in 2017 with big dreams—a vision to recreate a “a free and fair Internet.” And it raised some big money to do it. The company raked in $13.8 million in a token sale during the ICO gold rush. Now, Substratum is broke. And some investors are crying foul. The company announced in a Medium post yesterday that it is now entering a “transition” phase after draining its coffers of the nearly $14 million it raised in an ICO less than two years ago. So far, Substratum...

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    Brave says Google is (still) secretly sharing your personal data with advertisers

    Brave Software, the company behind the privacy-focused, open-source Brave browser, has accused Google of secretly using a “workaround” to avoid adhering to strict European Union privacy regulations. Google is allegedly using hidden web pages—a mechanism called “Push Pages”—that scoop up and deliver personally identifiable data to advertisers, violating the tech giant’s own publicly stated privacy policies, according to findings published by Brave on Wednesday. In an emailed response to Decrypt,...

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    Ethereum Name Service launches auction for shorter, "simpler" blockchain domains

    Are long, cumbersome cryptocurrency addresses holding the industry back from wider adoption? The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) thinks it might—and it’s taken another step on its mission to eventually make them obsolete. Over the weekend, the Ethereum Name Service launched an auction for short .eth domain names on the OpenSea decentralized marketplace. All three to six-character-long domain names that were not among the 194 approved during the reservation period that closed in mid-August are now up...

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    3 min read
    Jaime Chacon
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    Libra competitor Celo unveils mobile DeFi app tools for Ethereum developers

    Anything Facebook’s Libra can do, Celo wants to do better. Last week, crypto startup and Libra competitor Celo unveiled its software development kit (SDK), which allows developers to build mobile-based decentralized finance (DeFi) apps on its protocol. This gives developers the tools aimed at building a more inclusive and decentralized monetary system with the full-stack Celo platform.  And while Libra similarly offers a full-stack approach to building blockchain-based financial tools, Celo exec...

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