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Bitcoin in Emerging Markets: The Middle East
4.5.2020
Regions with weak states and educated diasporas are seeing a rising demand for cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and decentralized applications
Banking the Unbanked: How the Crypto Community Can Make a Big Impact
30.4.2020
For tech-savvy young adults in communities often overlooked by traditional big business, the crypto and blockchain industry offers opportunities that others don't
Road to Consensus: Harry Halpin Talks Holistic Privacy, Mixnets and COVID-19 (of Course)
23.4.2020
Harry Halpin, a speaker at Consensus: Distributed, talks about his lockdown, and how Crypto Twitter was right, for once
Blockstack Opens Testnet for New Bitcoin-Linked Consensus Mechanism
23.4.2020
Announced today, the Blockstack testnet is open. Developers can now simulate the Stacks blockchain's new, hybrid consensus mechanism, which Blockstack calls Proof-of-Transfer (PoX)
CoinDesk Live: How This ‘Legal Wrapper’ for DAOs Could Democratize Venture Capital
23.4.2020
A limited liability autonomous organization is the next chapter of capital formation, Aaron Wright and Priyanka Desai of OpenLaw explain
CoinDesk Live: Understanding Our Digital Personas feat. Alex McDougall
21.4.2020
“If we don’t fix the data paradigm...we don’t really have free will,” says Alex McDougall of Bicameral Ventures
Ask Consensus Speakers Anything at CoinDesk Live
15.4.2020
Twice a week, the Lockdown Edition will feature discussions and public AMAs via Zoom with key speakers from the Consensus: Distributed agenda
Coronavirus Second Order Effects and Improving on Bitcoin With BitTorrent Creator Bram Cohen
5.4.2020
BitTorrent creator and Chia CEO Bram Cohen joins the hosts of Let's Talk Bitcoin! To discuss the limitations of Satoshi's approach to Nakamoto consensus, how he believes it can be improved and the lasting impacts of coronavirus lockdowns
Staked Token Supply Doesn’t Correlate with Price, Says Messari Analyst
3.4.2020
There is no correlation between the percentage of staked supply of PoS tokens and their price, a Messari analyst argues
Consensus 2020 Crypto Event Goes Virtual Due to Coronavirus
13.3.2020
Consensus 2020 is another crypto conference affected by coronavirus, but it will still be hosted virtually in May at no charge
5% of Block Rewards – Bitcoin ABC Will Add Infrastructure Funding Plan in Next Release
15.2.2020
Bitcoin ABC developers published a blog post on Saturday which discusses the miner Infrastructure Funding Plan (IFP) and the team told the community the software engineers have been “requested” to implement IFP. According to the developers, the code for IFP will be implemented in...
ConsenSys Project Launches ‘Proof-of-Use’ Network to Discourage Speculation
11.2.2020
The Activate network requires tokens to reach maturity within three years of the first token sale
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
Bitcoin Gold 51% Attacked – Network Loses $70,000 in Double Spends
26.1.2020
The Bitcoin Gold (BTG) network suffered another set of 51% attacks on January 23-24, as roughly 29 blocks were removed in two deep blockchain reorganizations (reorgs). Reports indicate that more than 7,000 BTG was double spent as the chain suffered a loss of $70,000 in two days. Also read: Bitcoin...
BTC’s Hashrate Touches 120 Exahash, But the Price Has Not Followed
3.1.2020
On January 1, the BTC network hashrate touched an all-time high at close to 120 exahash per second (EH/s). Despite the crypto market lull and lower BTC prices, the 2020 milestone happened just before the blockchain’s 11th anniversary. BTC’s curious jump in hashrate has the cryptosphere...
Meet Snowglobe: An Avalanche-Based Pre-Consensus Protocol for BCH
22.12.2019
On December 20, BCHD and Openbazaar developer Tyler Smith published first draft specifications for a protocol he calls “Snowglobe.” Smith’s Github repository says that Snowglobe is a propagation protocol for nodes using Nakamoto Consensus and it uses an Avalanche-based consensus...
Bitcoin Mining Operations Offer New Strategies Before Reward Reduction
10.12.2019
As the reward halving approaches, bitcoin miners are preparing new strategies so customers can reap the most profits from their hashrate services. On December 3, the mining operation Poolin introduced a hashrate auto-switch feature so clients can automatically switch between BTC and BCH mining....
Evercoin Launches Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet
12.11.2019
At New York Consensus Invest Summit, Evercoin Inc. today announced Evercoin 2, the “safest hardware wallet”. Evercoin 2 provides a wallet and exchange for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies featuring a hardware wallet the size of a house key powered by YubiKey 5ci, the first implementation of...
Blockchain Scalability: Current Challenges and Potential Solutions
31.8.2019
While blockchain scalability is one of the biggest hurdles to mass adoption, the existing consensus mechanisms come with their own set of tradeoffs. To decentralize nonfinancial blockchains as well, we’re going to need novel approaches to secure their decentralized networks
The Cryptocurrency Projects Pursuing a Path to Decentralization
11.7.2019
Decentralization over time is an ethos that many crypto projects espouse. To date, however, few have completed this journey. Talking the talk is easy, but when it comes down to it, only a handful of projects are bold enough to walk the walk and willingly entrust their fate to the community. Also...