Source: Forbes Author: Billy Bambrough Bitcoin has had an incredible start to 2020—perhaps even beginning to act as a so-called safe haven asset as U.S.-Iran tensions soar and the coronavirus spreads. The bitcoin price, up around 50% since the beginning of the year, has found a temp...
While most exchanges are busy listing the latest coins or focusing on marketing with growing number of IEOs or new games, Bitfinex seems to be much technology addicted. From using bech32 (Segwit) address and Liquid to the latest Lightning Network support, the crypto exchange is pushing har...
Poolin, just over a year old and already trending as a top two mining pool, is a bit of an anomaly in the mining industry as a China based company with public views on Bitcoin’s development that mirror Bitcoin Core’s. CEO Zhibiao Pan started in the mining industry as the founder of T...
On October 9th evening, Bytom Founder Chang Jia, Bytom CEO Lang Yu and Bytom CTO James Zhu answered almost a hundred questions about Bytom’s current situation and roadmap in ChainNode’s AMA. Here are some of the excerpts from the AMA. 1. What’s Bytom’s detail...
In this interview, Jimmy Nguyen, the founding president of the Bitcoin Association, continues with his organization's push to return the Bitcoin and blockchain field to its roots in the 'Satoshi Vision of the original Bitcoin via Bitcoin SV (BSV)'. Nguyen believes there is much ...
Despite the latest crypto bull run pushed by the Bitcoin rally since this April, Litecoin, the world’s fourth largest cryptocurrency, doesn’t seem to get quite a boost from bitcoin upward move. As the Litecoin halving draws near, the long-awaited halving event happening in August which ...
On June 18, Facebook released a white paper on its blockchain project Libra. In a short while, Libra sweeping the crypto, financial and technological Industries. On the evening of June 19th, SheKnows, an 8btc interview column, invited Meng Yan, the author of 《Facebook数字货币：缘起、...
With the advent of numerous blockchains over these years, the lack of interoperability between blockchains has put a brake on the growth of blockchain industry. In such a context, cross-chain technology has grabbed great attention from the crypto community. As a prominent representative in the...
Consensus algorithms are the process applied by nodes to achieve final agreement on network states. In the blockchain sector, PoW and PoS are two major consensus algos. The proof of work (PoW) consensus algorithm is the most commonly used, which is featured by high security and decentraliz...
"In the longer term - some years time - Bitcoin as a competitor to physical gold might, if it met some comparable metrics may reach $250,000. For Turing completeness I think it is a mistake because it creates storage requirements which are hard to scale, statefulness which creates race condi...
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