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Many Chains, Many Tokens, and One Ecosystem— 8BTC Boost’s Dialogue with Cosmos

Apr 16, 2019

Thousands of blockchain projects with their corresponding crypto token have popped up since the birth of bitcoin in 2008, raising the question of interoperability between independent blockchains. Cosmos, a highly anticipated blockchain project, aims to provide a solution to improve the interoperab...

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Infographic: A Map of Bitcoin Forks

Apr 9, 2019

This infographic provides a schematic overview of the main Bitcoin-related “forks” that can happen and shows the most important forks that have happened. It does not provide an overview of all forks that have happened. What Are Bitcoin Forks? The word “fork” is somewhat confusing...

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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...

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Why It is Impossible to Solve Blockchain Trilemma

Feb 26, 2019

Abstract In 1985, FLP theory was proposed in a paper written by Fischer, Lynch and Patterson. FLP theory proves that in a completely asynchronous distributed system, no completely asynchronous consensus protocol can tolerate even a single unannounced process death. In 2002, Lynch ...

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PlatON: A High-efficiency Trustless Computing Network Founded by China’s Crypto ‘Godfather’

Jan 29, 2019

January 28, PlatON, the pioneering global privacy-preserving computing network has completed its Version 0.4.0 upgrade and began to support Verifiable Computation (VC) based smart contract. Since then, PlatON becomes the world’s first computing network uses the VC algorithms to build...

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Algorand’s Chief Cryptographer: Verifiable Random Function(VRF) is Key to Solving the Blockchain Trilemma

Jan 18, 2019

Algorand, the blockchain protocol founded by Silvio Micali, a Turing Award-winning cryptographer and professor of computer science at MIT, is undoubtedly among the most anticipated blockchain project in 2019. Sergey Gorbunov, chief cryptographer at Algorand that aims to solve the “blo...

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Central to Dfinity Consensus: How is Randomness Generated? | Geekhub Global Online, Episode 4

Jan 17, 2019

Which crypto project has the potential to rekindle the passion of blockchain enthusiasts and cryptocurrency investors in 2019? Dfinity is that one. Dfinity’s ambition extends further than to challenge Ethereum’s dominance in the decentralized  decentralized application (DApp) and smart c...

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Bitcoin Upgrade Thwarts Irregular Double-Spending Bug

Sep 23, 2018

The importance of upgrading Bitcoin Core nodes to the latest version 0.16.3 has been emphasised following new information that the bug fixed in the update is more serious than it had been previously made to seem. [caption id="attachment_28250" align="aligncenter" width="1150"] Nodes that have...

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Trend in Japan: Large Crypto Exchanges Get Hacked, Conglomerates Take Over

Sep 23, 2018

In Japan, the largest crypto exchange market in the world, a new trend has emerged; large conglomerates have started to acquire hacked digital asset trading platforms as a way to enter the cryptocurrency sector. Since the $500 million security breach of Coincheck, formerly the most widely uti...

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Opera Browser Crypto Wallet Could be big for Africa

Aug 13, 2018

Opera has reportedly launched a beta for their in-browser crypto wallet which could be big in parts of Africa where the browser has the highest number of users. Awareness and use of cryptocurencies have been growing in parts of the continent in the last two years. A major constraint for many Af...