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MakerDAO Fee Decrease Stalls Amid Decline in Token Holder Voting Turnout

A decrease to fees on stablecoin DAI failed to activate over the weekend due to a lack of voter turnout.

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'Tackling Real World Issues': Hackers at ETH New York Build Apps Geared Towards Social Change

A New York Blockchain Week ended last Friday we spent time at an ethereum hackathon where developers came together to build blockchain tools with social impact.

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My Bank Account Was Frozen for Bitcoin – And It Only Made Me Love Crypto More

The guy who coined the term "hodl" has a real bitcoin story that only made his interest in the technology stronger.

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Bitcoin and Blockchain: The Tangled History of Two Tech Buzzwords

The word "blockchain" isn't used in the bitcoin white paper, the document that started it all. So, how did the term take off as a buzzword?

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About That Orange B... The History of Bitcoin’s Logos

Can a logo symbolize the ethos of a project? An industry? An entire movement? Bitcoin's might have come close.

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Bloq Labs' Titan Aims to Simplify Crypto Farming

Titan is a one-step crypto miner management system from Bloq Labs.

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Unpatched Ethereum Clients Pose 51% Attack Risk, Says Report

Ethereum clients that still haven't patched known vulnerabilities pose a security risk to the entire network, according to new research.

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Amazon Wins Patent for Proof-of-Work Cryptographic System

Tech giant Amazon has been granted a patent for a proof-of-work (PoW) cryptographic system similar to those used by many blockchains.

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MakerDAO Votes to Decrease Stablecoin Fees for First Time in 5 Months

Dollar-backed stablecoin DAI is trading above a dollar for the first time in a long-time. MakerDAO token holders have voted to decrease fees on the stablecoin in order to address high market demand for DAI.

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Ava Labs Exits Stealth, Launches Blockchain Testnet Based on 'Avalanche' Protocol

Ava Labs is out of stealth, revealing a past $6 million funding round and a new blockchain testnet backed by the Avalanche consensus protocol.

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