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Polymath building new security token blockchain platform on Substrate
The team of Polymath, a platform for security token issuance and management, declared back in March of this year during Consensus New York, that it had begun work on building a new base layer public blockchain from the ground up – codenamed Polymesh. дальше »
2019-11-21 04:18 | |
Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3
Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released. дальше »
2019-10-30 04:03 | |
Bitcoin does not require base layer changes for scalability to improve commercial value
Scaling has been one of the major issues associated with Bitcoin over the past few years. Bitcoin’s scaling problem was often held in accordance with Moore’s Law and it was predicted that if the law had held through, Bitcoin’s memory capacity would have increased by a factor of 8 megabytes. дальше »
2019-7-2 02:30 | |
Craig Wright's Bitcoin SV is a 'Total Ghost Town': Analyst
Citing data that demonstrates that over 86% of all Bitcoin SV volume originated from just 100 transactions, analyst Kevin Rooke told Twitter that Craig Wright's pet crypto project is a “total ghost town. дальше »
2019-6-25 01:00 | |
Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding
Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions. дальше »
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
Op Ed: Debunking Bitcoin Myths: The ‘Intrinsic Value’ Fallacy
A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value. дальше »
2019-6-4 23:41 | |
Op Ed: Debunking Bitcoin Myths, The ‘Intrinsic Value’ Fallacy
A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value. дальше »
2019-5-31 23:41 | |
Bitcoin [BTC] and Ethereum Classic can co-exist as ‘complimentary base layer systems,’ claims ETC developer
Smart Contracts, first developed on the Ethereum blockchain, have since gained popularity in several crypto assets’ primary networks. Blockstream recently announced that it was going to launch to a security token platform on the Bitcoin Sidechain and in the backend, the organization indicated that it would implement Bitcoin’s multi-signature smart contracts. дальше »
2019-5-30 14:30 | |
Op Ed: Lightning Network Consensus Is a Marketplace and That’s Okay!
To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance. дальше »
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
Weiss Ratings Believes Ethereum Faces Scalability Issues Harming its Development
Weiss Ratings, a recognized independent rating agency, has commented about Ethereum’s (ETH) development and how it could be constrained by the lack of scalability. A few days ago, the co-founder of Ethereum, Joseph Lubin, talked about which are the main problems that crypto projects are currently facing. Ethereum Has a Slow Base Layer Mr. Lubin […] дальше »
2019-4-14 18:23 | |
Ethereum [ETH] community raises concerns over Ethereum Foundation’s lack of transparency
Ethereum Foundation is well-known in the community for being the organization behind the development of Ethereum [ETH], a leading smart contract platform and cryptocurrency. Its purpose is to support and promote Ethereum and its development, while also conducting base layer research. дальше »
2019-4-11 16:00 | |
Joseph Lubin: Ethereum (ETH) Will be a Global Settlement Layer and Prices Rise 1000X
Ethereum prices in an uptrend, add 9. 3 percent Break above $190 and $200 ought to be with high transactional volumes ConsenSys are building and developing infrastructure, apps, and tools useful in the Ethereum ecosystem. дальше »
2019-4-11 21:00 | |
Dr Doom Shares Blockchain Gloom, Says Central Bank Digital Currencies Won’t Run as Base Layer
Nouriel Roubini, an American economist and infamous cryptocurrency critic has debated that blockchain technology will not be the basis on which central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will be adopted. дальше »
2019-4-5 17:27 | |
Op Ed: With Bitcoin, Anarchy Is the Point, Not the Problem
Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems. дальше »
2019-3-23 17:29 | |
Holo, Enterprise: Holochain Seeks More Business Applications
Holochain is building more infrastructure for business applications. Developers for the cloud hosting market have partnered with Next Block Group, an investment platform that matches base layer protocols with established enterprises. дальше »
2019-2-28 01:54 | |
Why Bitcoin’s (BTC) future is vertical and crypto should give up going horizontal
Instead of concentrating on building the vertical second layer on top of the bitcoin network, the industry has been obsessed with developing competing base layers on a horizontal plane in the shape of new blockchains,. дальше »
2019-2-16 13:15 | |
Bitcoin Influencer Shares His Side on Privacy Being the Base Layer and Scaling as a Secondary Layer
A Greek-British author, Bitcoin activist and Let’s Talk Bitcoin Host, Andreas M Antonopoulos has spoken on BTC’s scaling problems during a session on YouTube. There has been an ongoing debate on Bitcoin scalability for the past 6 years. дальше »
2019-2-2 00:58 | |
Binance Showcases Decentralized Exchange Progress in Latest Video
Binance just offered its users an in-depth sneak peek of its forthcoming decentralized exchange (DEX). Announced in March of 2018, the decentralized exchange will be built on Binance’s own Binance chain, the soon-to-be base layer for BNB, Binance’s trading currency that is currently an ERC-20 token. дальше »
2018-12-6 23:38 | |
Binance Showcase Decentralized Exchange Progress in Latest Video
Binance just offered its users an in-depth sneak peek of its forthcoming decentralized exchange (DEX). Announced in March of 2018, the decentralized exchange will be built on Binance’s own Binance chain, the soon-to-be base layer for BNB, Binance’s trading currency that is currently an ERC-20 token. дальше »
2018-12-6 23:38 | |
Report: Censorship-Prone EOS ‘Needs to Re-Architect Its Infrastructure’
EOS, the $4 billion blockchain project developed by Dan Larimer, has been savaged in an exhaustive new review. The 17,000-word report, based on extensive laboratory testing, concludes that EOS’s real-world throughput isn’t much better than Ethereum’s and that its consensus algorithm doesn’t function properly. дальше »
2018-11-19 17:15 | |
RSK Merges With New RIF OS, Opens Potential for Increased Interoperability
Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond. дальше »
2018-11-19 04:39 | |
RSK Merges With New RIF Labs, Opens Potential for Increased Interoperability
Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond. дальше »
2018-11-20 04:39 | |
Progress Report: Lightning Network Surpasses $1M BTC Capacity, 4,000 Nodes
The Lightning Network continues to post steady growth. According to data from 1ML, the network is now supported by roughly 4,070 nodes, which house just over 12,500 payment channels, an average of 10. дальше »
2018-11-17 01:17 | |
Here’s Why the Bitcoin Community is Viciously Attacking Blockstream’s Bank 2.0 Liquid Network
Today we begin with three questions: Is Blockstream building solutions such as Liquid which rely on the government for protection of the fulfillment of contracts? And: Is Blockstream intentionally crippling the throughput on the base layer so that most traffic has to go through their second for profitability? And: "Just Use Fiat" pic. дальше »
2018-10-27 16:07 | |
Battle of the Privacycoins: Verge Offers Little Privacy and Nothing Unique
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited. дальше »
2018-9-18 19:50 | |
Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term
One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”). дальше »
2018-8-28 04:03 | |
Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin
As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name. дальше »
2018-7-13 17:16 | |
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