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Bitcoin Diamond White paper introduction

Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) is a fork of Bitcoin; at predetermined block height 495866, the new chain was created. As the original Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain continues on unaltered, this new cryptocurrency now operaties on its own chain called ”Bitcoin Diamond”. With Bitcoin Diamond miners will begin creating blocks using a new proof-of-work algorithm which better serves Satoshi’s original goal of keeping Bitcoin decentralized. Bitcoin Diamond offers several technical advancements in scalability along with anti-replay protection and wallet enhancements. With these changes to the Bitcoin protocol, Bitcoin Diamond seeks to achieve Satoshi Nakamoto’s vision for a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that’s accessible and usable to everyone, regardless of economic status or country of origin.

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In our view, there are fundamentally two different types of exchanges: the ones that deal with fiat currency; and the ones that deal purely in crypto. It is the latter one that we will focus on. Even though they are small now, we strongly believe that pure crypto exchanges will be bigger, many times bigger, than fiat based exchanges in the near future. They will play an ever more important role in world finance and we call this new paradigm Binance​; Binary Finance.

With your help, Binance will build a world-class crypto exchange, powering the future of crypto finance

Problems
Some of the current crypto exchanges suffer from a number of problems:

Poor technical architecture
Many exchanges are “put together quickly”, by good tech people, but who have little or no experience in finance or in operating an exchange. They often choose the simplest approach to get the system up and running. While this may work well in the beginning, as traffic grows, the system will not able to handle the increased load. Exchange systems need to be engineered from the ground up with security, efficiency, speed, and scalability in mind. This often slows down the initial development, but is critical for long-term success. Our team has decades of combined experience building and maintaining world class financial systems that shape the economy. We understand how these systems are built from the ground up.

Insecure platform
There are hundreds of exchanges that went down due to being hacked. Binance is built to high standards, audited, and penetration tested. We have experience building financial systems to the highest security standards and strive to ensure security first.

Poor market liquidity
Professional traders and normal users are significantly affected by this. Having a shallow orderbook means high slippage when trading, which is very expensive for traders. Getting miners, institutional investors and large traders into a new exchange is a chicken and egg problem, and requires a team with deep industry resources. Binance’s team have been in both the finance and crypto industry for many years. The team has worked on and operated a number of exchanges, and have accumulated a large network of partners in this space. These partners will be key in bootstrapping the exchange.

Poor customer service
Traders are a different breed when it comes to users. Understanding the trader mentality is vital for running a successful exchange. Money is literally on-the-line. Many exchanges service traders as if they were running a social media site. A 3-second delay in seeing your friends’ status update would hardly be noticed, but on an exchange, the same would be unacceptable, resulting in a torrent of user complaints. In additional to the technology stack, Binance is built with service in mind. Binance shares support responsibilities across the entire staff and company. When a trader has a problem, they get an answer directly from someone who knows the system and not someone reading from a script.

Poor internationalization and language support
Blockchains have no borders. Most exchanges focus only on one language or one country. Our international multi-lingual team has extensive working experience in North America, Europe and Asia, and we are able to smoothly support the global market.

Binance Exchange

Matching Engine
Our matching engine is capable of sustaining 1,400,000 orders / second, making Binance one of the fastest exchanges in the market today. You can be certain, on our exchange, that your orders will never be stuck due to the matching engine being overwhelmed.

Feature Rollout
We will roll out the platform in roughly the following order:
● Spot trading
● Margin trading
● Futures
● Anonymous instant exchange
● Decentralized (on-chain) exchange
● and more…

Coins
Binance will support trading pairs in the following coins:
● BTC
● ETH
● LTC
● NEO (ANS)
● BNB (Binance Coin)

More coins will be added over time. We generally will only add coins that have strong credibility, user base, and liquidity. If you have a coin that you wish to be listed on Binance later, participating in our ICO will help. We have no plans to support any fiat currencies such as USD, RMB, JPY, or KRX.

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The authors introduce Sia, a platform for decentralized storage. Sia enables the formation of storage contracts between peers. Contracts are agreements between a storage provider and their client, defining what data will be stored and at what price. They require the storage provider to prove, at regular intervals, that they are still storing their client’s data. Contracts are stored in a blockchain, making them publicly auditable. In this respect, Sia can be viewed as a Bitcoin derivative that includes support for such contracts. Sia will initially be implemented as an altcoin, and later financially connected to Bitcoin via a two-way peg.

Sia is a decentralized cloud storage platform that in- tends to compete with existing storage solutions, at both the P2P and enterprise level. Instead of renting storage from a centralized provider, peers on Sia rent storage from each other. Sia itself stores only the stor- age contracts formed between parties, defining the terms of their arrangement. A blockchain, similar to Bitcoin [1, 12], is used for this purpose.

By forming a contract, a storage provider (also known as a host) agrees to store a client’s data, and to periodically submit proof of their continued stor- age until the contract expires. The host is compen- sated for every proof they submit, and penalized for missing a proof. Since these proofs are publicly veri- fiable (and are publicly available in the blockchain),
network consensus can be used to automatically en- force storage contracts. Importantly, this means that clients do not need to personally verify storage proofs; they can simply upload their file and let the network do the rest.

We acknowledge that storing data on a single un- trusted host guarantees little in the way of availabil- ity, bandwidth, or general quality of service. Instead, we recommend storing data redundantly across mul- tiple hosts. In particular, the use of erasure codes can enable high availability without excessive redundancy.

Sia will initially be implemented as a blockchain- based altcoin. Future support for a two-way peg with Bitcoin is planned, as discussed in “Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains” [5]. The Sia protocol largely resembles Bitcoin except for the changes noted below.

ICX white paper introduction:

The advent of the blockchain technology has introduced the world of decentralization and is challenging our preconceived perspectives of the current social, political, and economic systems, most notably, the central banking system. The rapid advancement of this technology has begun to blend world borders and statute, providing glimpses of an improved, alternative future. Yet, the technology is still at its infancy and is confronted with limitations in terms of performance, ease of use, and service quality.

Generally, the majority of blockchain projects place emphasis on their decentralization methodology and lack evidence of adoption in the real world due to their technological and business limitations. The ICON Project (“ICON”, “ICON Network”, “we”, “our”, “us”) aims to overcome such challenges and help advance our society towards true hyperconnectivity.

This paper outlines our vision and philosophy of the ICON Project and details on the supporting proprietary technologies that have been in development over the past few years. More importantly, we discuss actual implementation with dozens of reputable institutions that are already in the ICON Network. This demonstrates our progress beyond the initial concept stage and validates our team’s strong execution ability; a major factor that differentiates ICON from the majority of blockchain projects today.

ICON is inspired by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s rhizome – “the world with no center point and the world where any point is a mere connection to other points.” ICON is a connector of disparate cryptocurrencies with different blockchain governances, and furthermore, a connector of the crypto world to our real world. ICON embraces the new and the unfamiliar, the principle of radical inclusion – accept new ideas and decisions made by the new republic established by ever-changing crypto-to-real world connections.

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What is Lisk?
Lisk is a blockchain application platform created to bring blockchain technology to the world through an SDK (Sidechain Development Kit) written in JavaScript, the most commonly used programming language in the world.

By utilizing sidechain technology, Lisk’s SDK enables developers to build powerful and scalable blockchain applications, which include custom tokens. With special focus on usability and accessibility, Lisk aims to become the foremost platform for blockchain application development in the world.

Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Lisk raised over 14,000 Bitcoins during its ICO in Q1 2016.

Lisk Tokens
The utility token used in the Lisk ecosystem is known as Lisk (LSK).

This token is used to pay the fees associated with sending transactions on the network. Each token also allows the holder to vote for delegates that secure the network within the Lisk DPoS (Delegated Proof of Stake) consensus protocol.

LSK tokens can be acquired through a number of ways, such as purchasing them from an exchange or from another individual using Fiat or Bitcoin (BTC).

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Maker (MKR) Whitepaper Introduction
Popular digital assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) are too volatile to be used as everyday currency. The value of a bitcoin often experiences large fluctuations, rising or falling by as much as 25% in a single day and occasionally rising over 300% in a month. .

The Dai Stablecoin is a collateral-backed cryptocurrency whose value is stable relative to the US Dollar. We believe that stable digital assets like Dai Stablecoin are essential to realizing the full potential of blockchain technology. Maker is a smart contract platform on Ethereum that backs and stabilizes the value of Dai through a dynamic system of Collateralized Debt Positions (CDPs), autonomous feedback mechanisms, and appropriately incentivized external actors. Maker enables anyone to leverage their Ethereum assets to generate Dai on the Maker Platform. Once generated, Dai can be used in the same manner as any other cryptocurrency: it can be freely sent to others, used as payments for goods and services, or held as long term savings. Importantly, the generation of Dai also creates the components needed for a robust decentralized margin trading platform.

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Abstract. Bitcoin Gold is a community-led project to create an experimental hard fork of Bitcoin to a new proof-of-work algorithm. The purpose for doing this is to make Bitcoin mining decentralized again. Satoshi Nakamoto’s idealistic vision of “one CPU one vote” has been superseded by a reality where the manufacture and distribution of mining equipment has become dominated by a very small number of entities, some of whom have engaged in abusive practices against individual miners and the Bitcoin network as a whole.

Bitcoin Gold will provide an opportunity for countless new people around the world to participate in the mining process with widely-available consumer hardware that is manufactured and distributed by reputable mainstream corporations. A more decentralized, democratic mining infrastructure is more resilient and more in line with Satoshi’s original vision. Perhaps, if the Bitcoin Gold experiment is judged by the community to be a success, it may one day help build consensus for a proof-of-work hard fork on Bitcoin itself.

Digix provides a use case for the tokenisation and documentation of physical assets through its Proof of Asset (PoA)​protocol. The PoA protocol utilises Ethereum and the InterPlanetary Files System (IPFS) to track an asset through its chain of custody. This allows for the open and public verification of an asset’s existence without a centralised database. Digix also offers an API allowing other applications to be built on top of our asset tokenisation service.

The internet created the largest information sharing inflection point in history. While there are countless advantages to the easily accessible store of information, humans have been required to surrender their privacy in exchange. Too often, and through no fault of the end user, a third party with inadequate security is breached and sensitive information is compromised or stolen. A better system is needed that removes trusted middlemen and empowers any two individuals to freely and securely transact.

A new cryptocurrency, Bitcoin Private, is presented herein as a low-fee, fast, and private transactional network — a true fulfillment of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s roadmap. Bitcoin Private is the product of a fork-merge of Bitcoin with Zclassic. The resulting Bitcoin Private chain has significantly lower fees than Bitcoin, along with transaction speeds four to six times faster. Most importantly, zk-SNARKs, a peer reviewed privacy technology originally implemented by the Zcash Foundation is incorporated. zk-SNARKs allows for provably anonymous and private transactions — an accomplishment no other privacy technology can claim. The UTXO sets of both Zclassic and Bitcoin will comprise the initial coins in this new ledger. This means approximately 20.4 million out of 21 million coins will exist at fork time, ensuring that Bitcoin Private will have the lowest inflation to ever exist in the cryptocurrency universe.

In conclusion, this white paper discusses Bitcoin Private, its technological advantages, the commercial applicability, and the chain’s potential for future development as well as its community-driven focus.