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Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino: Lightning Network “Gives You an Intrinsic Sensation of Freedom and Power”

Dec 31, 2019

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...

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World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Poolin Discusses Growth State of Mining and Bitcoin in China

Oct 18, 2019

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...

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MOV AMA – New Team, New Journey

Oct 14, 2019

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...

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Bitcoin Industry Artificially-Crippled for Years, Brought Competing Blockchains

Aug 31, 2019

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 ...

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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...