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Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee: Take Some Profit When the Market Is Going Up

Jul 19, 2019

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 ...

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Insight into Libra’s White Paper: extremely unprecedented and overwhelming

Jun 20, 2019

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、...

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Cosmos AMA on 8btc: No Blockchain Is an Island, To Be “Internet of Blockchains”

Jun 13, 2019

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...

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Bystack: Bytom’s Solution to Business Application and “The Blockchain Trilemma”

May 29, 2019

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...

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Exclusive Dialogue with Blockstream CEO Adam Back: Bitcoin to $250,000? Turing Completeness a Mistake?

Apr 30, 2019

"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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Ethereum Cofounder Gavin Wood Says PoW “Proof of Waste” and will Replace PoS if there’s Something Better

Apr 16, 2019

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...

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Fetch.AI. CTO AMA on 8BTC: Take a Closer Look at IEO

Apr 4, 2019

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...

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Exclusive Interview with COSMOS Founder Jae Kwon: “Crypto Market Will Inevitably Evolve Toward the Cosmos Model”

Apr 3, 2019

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...

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Grin Developers AMA on 8btc: Grin is trying to be a “Better Money”

Mar 18, 2019

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 “...

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Beam CEO AMA on 8btc: Looking at Lightning, Aim to Make Beam into Top 5 Cryptocurrency

Mar 6, 2019

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...