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...
Gavin Wood is one of the cofounders of Ethereum and founder of Ethereum client Parity Tehnologies and Polkadot. He is also an ordinary person who likes skiing, tennis and swimming, as well as a food lover. Self-described as a “free trust technologist”, Gavin romantically sees coding a f...
While the traditional ICO (initial coin offering) seems to lose its steam throughout 2018, the initial exchange offering (IEO) token sales model is starting to gain popularity. As the second IEO project on major exchange Binance’s Launchpad, Fetch.AI’s (FET) token sale has caugh...
Following the launch of Cosmos Hub, the first in a series of proof-of-stake(PoS) blockchains in the Cosmos ecosystem, last month, 8BTC has recently secured an exclusive interview with the Cosmos Founder Jae Kwon who answered questions regarding consensus mechanism, cross-chain trans...
Grin, as the first implementation of privacy-oriented protocol Mimblewimble along with Beam, has been one of the few highlights amid the crypto winter since its mainnet went at the beginning of the year. Started in late 2016, the cryptocoin prides itself for a community-driven project that is “...
The first two Mimblewimble implementations - Beam and Grin have been receiving significant attention. As the most talked about privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies these days, the latecomers Beam and Grin are seen by some as the biggest competitor to Monero, the best-known privacy coin with the...
Ethereum has seen its value on upward momentum these days since February, plus the long-awaited Constantinople fork scheduled for implementation next week, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency is setting out with a good start in 2019. While its top developer, release manager at Parity ...
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