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Cryptocurrency Exchanges Anyone who wants to get into the cryptocurrency market and does not want to mine blocks needs to exchange his fiat money at an exchange, the only alternative to this is to get cryptocurrency from another holder. Centralized exchanges like Bitfinex, Coinbase, Kraken, Poloniex or Shapeshift intermediate the bid and offer matching process […]
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CoinFabrik’s Smart Contract Audit team audited WorldBit Token sale ICO’s smart contracts. The contracts audited are taken from the WorldBit repository on https://github.com/CoinFabrik/ico/tree/world-bit. The audit is based on the commit 445cc0c28894a85cb58f54631666deafdd35d859, and updated to reflect changes on 21abcc3bde6d64d4aee391544fc9332fc9f2749d. Summary The audited contracts are: ERC20Basic: non-approval half of ERC20 interface. ERC20: Full ERC20 interface. FractionalERC20: Full ERC20 interface […]
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We are compiling a list of recent technologies developments in the blockchain sector. Our focus is mostly on projects which promise scalability, but includes also proposals which aim to overcome some deficiencies in Bitcoin´s PoW based blockchain, e.g. which aim to improve fairness, usefulness, or privacy. You can find the current state of our work […]
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It is important to have an estimate of risk for a portfolio when trading with financial assets. Two basic and commonly used risk measures are value-at-risk and expected shortfall. We will illustrate the two concepts with an example and provide the necessary R code to actually calculate the values of both measures. If we take […]
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By Sergio Demian Lerner Executive Summary In August 2017, REAL engaged Coinfabrik smart contract audit team to perform a security audit of the REAL crowdsale smart contracts. The purpose of the audit was to evaluate the security of the smart contracts. The source code was retrieved by Coinfabrik from https://github.com/RealEstateAssetLedger/real_contract commit e8af021445785ad0e36c54adf6568b079ec6293d on August 11th […]
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08-Ago-2018 Update: Removed update and queries point to CoinFabrik servers to solve quota issues in both Google and Crypto APIs. You can get the spreadsheet here. To create your own version go to ‘File’ -> ‘Make a copy’. Keep updated on my Twitter account. Thanks to the smart contract development team.
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CoinFabrik smart contract audit‘s team was hired to audit contracts written by TokenMarket for the PTOY Token ICO. The result of this security review is reflected in this document. Audited Files The contracts we audited are hosted at Github repository: MintableToken.sol CrowdsaleToken.sol ReleasableToken.sol UpgradeableToken.sol Commit hash f968cffe1abf4a3d96d6705ec1befd6cfec13ae3. Vulnerabilities Found Short Address Attack The version reviewed […]
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Transactions in Bitcoin are recorded in its blockchain. This makes it possible to see whether coins sent through the network are still valid unspent coins. At the same time, however, the transparency of the data stored in the blockchain can be used to infer private information of users. There are already many cryptocurrencies and “money […]
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We present an update of my previous article for cryptocurrency portfolio tracking. I received valuable feedback from some users, and I decided to update the spreadsheet based on those suggestions. The idea with this new spreadsheet, is to add only the transactions in the History tab: And reflect current asset position in the ‘Position’ tab: Also, ‘Prices’ tab […]
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AppeCoin, Sergio D. Lerner‘s proposal for an e-cash scheme, is designed for a peer-to-peer network which does not rely on a Trusted Third Party. Like the cryptocurrencies Monero or Zcash, AppeCoin is a protocol which aims to guarantee to its users full privacy. Lerner’s e-cash scheme leverages coin shuffling. Unlike ZeroCoin, where the monetary units […]
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This Google Live Updated Cryptocurrency Investment Tracking Spreadsheet can help you track your cryptocurrency investments. It gets the prices from an external API and keeps them updated. It supports the 15 most popular cryptocurrencies. It uses Poloniex and Cryptocompare APIs to retrieve latest currency’s rates: It uses a script based on FastFedora Project which can […]
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Working for our customers in our blockchain development company we built this spreadsheet which is a work in progress, comments are welcome here, which describes the features of multiple blockchain and sidechain technologies. Views about blockchain technologies range from hype to skepticism. A blockchain is a distributed database and consensus network that can be used to […]