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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...

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UOC:A Fully Decentralized Online Games Development and Publishing Ecosystem

Aug 1, 2018

UOC:A Fully Decentralized Online Games Development and Publishing Ecosystem UOC uochain@outlook.com August, 2018   Satoshi Nakamoto started the Bitcoin project in January 2009,proving the world that a peer-to-peer electronic cash system is feasible and secure. As a r...

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360 Security found critical bug of EOS, Dawn might be postponed(Updated)

May 29, 2018

The 360 Vulcan team discovered a series of critical vulnerabilities in EOS, which is about to launch its mainnet on 2nd June. It has been verified that some of these vulnerabilities can remotely execute arbitrary code on the EOS node, which allows attackers to take over all nodes running o...