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Ethereum vs Tron: Comparing Data, Defi and Stablecoins from Both Chains After Viral Tweet
9.2.2020
On February 7, Cold Card and Opendime creator, Rodolfo Novak (also known as NVK), tweeted a picture of himself with Tron founder Justin Sun and Blockstream’s CEO Adam Back. Novak said “Ethereum was over” and the three had a plan to move Tron to Liquid, a network that leverages...
Twitter, Square Stock 20% Price Surge Boosts Bitcoin Lightning Network
7.2.2020
Lightning Network attention is set to increase further as Square’s fortunes keep gaining
French Food Company Looks to IBM’s Blockchain Network for Better Sourcing
6.2.2020
French egg and oil producer, the Avril Group, has joined IBM Food Trust to improve product supply chains
Kyber Network Expects to Surpass USD 500 million in Volume This Year
6.2.2020
Kyber Network (KNC), an open-source, on-chain liquidity protocol, expects to facilitate over USD 500 million in transaction volume in 2020, or 29% more than last year, Loi Luu, CEO and Co-Founder of Kyber Network, told Cryptonews.com.
According to the CEO, Kyber facilitated USD 70 million worth...
Blockstack Nodes Will Be Paid in BTC – Not STX – to Secure the Network
6.2.2020
Blockstack is rolling out a new consensus mechanism that presents a fresh use case for the world's most popular cryptocurrency
Overwriting Satoshi: Kraken Exec Says Bitcoin Wasn’t Built for Payments, Isn’t Peer-to-Peer
6.2.2020
As Director of Business Development for popular crypto exchange Kraken, when Dan Held speaks, people listen. As such, his recent 46-tweet diatribe on why the “payments narrative” for bitcoin is flawed grabbed the attention of many, tickling the ears of hardcore Lighting Network fans...
Fidelity’s VC Arm Leads $13M Series A for Blockchain-Based B2B Network Clear
6.2.2020
Clear claims it can reduce friction in global trade that amounts to $140 billion every year
SLP Token Trading Platform Cryptophyl Adds BTC Pair With Bitcoin Cash at Flat 0.15% Fee
6.2.2020
Digital asset exchange Cryptophyl has announced it’s launching bitcoin core (BTC) trading. The first available pair is with bitcoin cash (BCH), the platform revealed on social media this week. Trading the two major cryptocurrencies will also allow users to earn the exchange’s native...
4 ‘Bitcoin Contenders’ With Zero Use Cases and Barely Any Infrastructure
6.2.2020
Cryptocurrency markets and the industry are extremely competitive and many users believe a single digital asset will reign someday, and that it may not be BTC. Over the last few years, many holders believe the assets they hold are bitcoin contenders with coins like IOTA, EOS, ADA, XRP, and...
Telegram Drops Technical White Paper for Blockchain SEC Is Trying to Halt
5.2.2020
Telegram has revealed more details about its TON blockchain's block validation process, even as it fights the SEC in court over its $1.7 billion token sale
Lightning Labs Raises $10M Series A to Be the ‘Visa’ of Bitcoin
5.2.2020
Lightning Labs has raised $10 million in Series A financing as it gears up to launch its first paid service for merchants accepting bitcoin payments
Public Sale Is Live for Coin Powering Cypherpunk Pioneer David Chaum’s Privacy Focused Xx Network
5.2.2020
The Xx network is designed to allow people to communicate and exchange value without revealing any information to intrusive government agencies or companies that collect and sell personal data. It was created by Dr. David Chaum, a world-renowned cryptographer and privacy advocate. The public sale...
BitPay CEO: Platform Will Support More Cryptocurrencies and Possibly Lightning Network
4.2.2020
BitPay CEO says platform will add support for more cryptocurrencies, along with possible integration of the Lightning Network
5 Mining Operations Command More Than 50% of BTC’s Network Hashrate
3.2.2020
The cryptocurrency community has been discussing mining centralization after a report was published that disclosed five mining operations command more than 50% of the BTC hashrate. At the time of publication, between F2pool, Poolin, Btc.com, and Antpool, the pools are hashing more than 59% of...
Aztec Launches Privacy Network on Ethereum
3.2.2020
Users will be able to create private assets using the protocol
Police Forces in Belgium, France and Israel Stop Scam Promising 35% Returns on Crypto Investments
2.2.2020
Police forces in Belgium, France and Israel have reportedly put a stop to an international scam promising high returns of up to 35% on crypto investments. A big French private company and a French local authority are said to be among the 85 victims of this network. In total, 10 suspects related...
Smaller HTML Payloads with Service Workers
31.1.2020
Short story: Philip Walton has a clever idea for using service workers to cache the top and bottom of HTML files, reducing a lot of network weight.
Longer thoughts: When you're building a really simple website, you can get away with literally writing raw HTML. It doesn't take long to need a...
Zcash Community Votes to Distribute 20% of Mining Rewards to Infrastructure Development
31.1.2020
The Electric Coin Company, a group that supports the development of Zcash (ZEC), announced the community has voted to distribute 20% of the ZEC network’s mining rewards to infrastructure and marketing development. The ZEC development funding proposal was initiated because the coin’s...
The National Bank of Cambodia Will Launch a Digital Payments Network This Quarter
31.1.2020
Leading the way for a practical CBDC is — Cambodia
Few Banks Will Touch Crypto Firms, But Silvergate Wants to Touch Bitcoin Itself
30.1.2020
Silvergate made its name providing fiat banking services for crypto businesses. Now CEO Alan Lane wants the bank to handle digital assets themselves