Daily issue #56: UK Warns About Clone Firm, A.Antonopolulos on ETH, Cheating Servers in Decentralised Storage Network...

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UK Financial Regulator Warns Investors About ‘Clone Firm’

The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned investors about a so-called “clone’ company of investment firm Fair Oaks Capital Ltd., in a statement published Aug. 7. Clone firms are companies that carry out business activities under the pretense that they are a firm registered by the FCA.

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‘Neither Useful Nor Useless’: Andreas Antonopolulos On Writing ‘Mastering Ethereum’

Andreas Antonopoulos took critics to task over his decision to write a book about Ethereum and other altcoins in a recent Q&A session after a query claiming he was “not remaining faithful” to Bitcoin.

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One File for the Price of Three: Catching Cheating Servers in Decentralized Storage Networks

Decentralized Storage Networks (DSNs) such as Filecoin want to store your files on strangers spare disk space. To do it properly, you need to store the file in multiple places since you don't trust any individual stranger's computer. But how do you differentiate between three honest servers with one copy each and three cheating servers with one copy total? Anything you ask one server about the file it can get from its collaborator.

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