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It is no secret that the Bitcoin Lightning Network has gained a lot of popularity in 2019. With the current capacity of $5 million USD, the network has grown a lot this year and cannot even be compared to what it was last year when it was originally launched. This, however, is not enough for […]
2019-4-30 02:17 | |
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OKCoin, a major cryptocurrency exchange, has recently decided to diversify the assets held by the company by adding a new token to its offerings: EOS. This cryptocurrency may be somewhat new but it has gained a lot of adoption recently.
2019-4-23 02:09 | |
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
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The Bitcoin [BTC] Lightning Network has taken the entire cryptoverse by storm with a lot of the promise of faster and safer transactions. The latest update from the Lightning Network Daemon informed users of the launch of the lnd v0.
2019-4-18 21:31 | |
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If you follow crypto news, you have certainly heard about the Bitcoin Lightning Network. This off-chain scaling solution for Bitcoin (BTC) was launched last year and it has been growing a lot lately.
2019-4-17 00:12 | |
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The Lightning Network, a player 2 protocol for Bitcoin has been expanding of late. Nodes, channels and network capacity are all increasing at a quick pace showing that the public is becoming agitated for work to progress faster.
2019-4-16 18:37 | |
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The Tron community has been one of the most vocal and supportive crypto communities around. Tron’s CEO, Justin Sun, has also been very active with the efforts to popularize the network and possibly bump up the price of TRX.
2019-4-13 17:28 | |
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The USDT-Tron stablecoin is ready for launch on April 9th that according to Tron founder and BitTorrent CEO Justin Sun is receiving tremendous demand across the globe along with a lot of interest from the institutional investors.
2019-4-7 16:48 | |
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Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
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A pair of researchers recently developed a method for successfully conducting unsupervised machine learning that closely mimics how scientists believe the human brain works. These biologically-feasible algorithms could provide an alternate path forward for the field of AI.
2019-4-5 03:33 | |
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Twitter introduced a dark theme in its mobile apps in 2016, and for its site the following year. But after a lot of people complained that the social network’s feature is not a true dark mode – as it’s based on a shade of blue instead of black – CEO Jack Dorsey said the company was working on it.
2019-3-29 08:26 | |
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AhrvoDEEX is a peer-to-peer decentralized equity exchange that enables profitable trading by using multifactor ranking systems and deep learning algorithms that create smart equity scores and price targets to streamline the decision-making process.
2019-3-28 21:33 | |
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There’s been a lot of token creation taking place on top of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network of late. On Wednesday, Blockparty’s developer launched a new Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) explorer that gives users the ability to browse SLP tokens built on the BCH chain.
2019-3-27 20:30 | |
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April 2, Google is killing two of its well-known products: it’s failed social network, Google+, and the much-loved email client, Inbox. They join a long list of products that the Mountain View-based tech giant has killed.
2019-3-26 08:38 | |
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During the most recent Ethereum developer call, which happened today, Greg Colvin affirmed that the devs were going back to ProgPow, also known as Progressive Proof of Work, the new mining system of the ETH network which has been discussed until exhaustion since last year. The debate is very, very old. A lot of people […]
2019-3-16 18:42 | |
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The founder of Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Roger Ver, has been criticizing the Lightning Network a lot lately. In fact, he’s doing it since forever by affirming that the layer two scaling solution is far from being as good as it claims to be.
2019-3-16 01:46 | |
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A new ProgPoW algorithm which has the potential to make Ethereum network resistant to ASIC mining recently started gaining a lot of support from ETH network participants. However, the new situation has also inspired a number of rumors, debates, and even conspiracy theories.
2019-3-15 21:42 | |
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Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is sounding a lot like a tech entrepreneur these days. In a plea before a select committee on March 12 introducing ideas for Congress to prioritize in the 21st century, the GOP leader made his case for integrating blockchain technology into the government’s day-to-day operations.
2019-3-14 21:35 | |
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Tron’s second BTT airdrop giveaway is underway. According to an announcement on Twitter, the network is set to reward TRX holders with 990,000,000 BTT, come 11th of March. A lot of exchanges and wallets have been listed to support the airdrop program.
2019-3-5 19:46 | |
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The Lightning Network has been getting a lot of attention in the past few weeks, partly because of the… The post LinkedIn Co-Founder Passes Bitcoin Lightning Torch as BTC Adoption Prospects Increase appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-2-28 14:26 | |
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Ripple is one of the more interesting coins to do T.A. on because there is a lot going on in terms of fundamental analysis with Ripple/XRP. There is a war between major proponents (Brad Garlinghouse + Hodor + Ripple Community) and opponents (Frances Coppola + Messari/Ryan + Swift Network) and both are pretty resolute in […]
2019-2-25 05:18 | |
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In a nutshell, the majority of traditional payment players are rigid. From different demonstrations, it has been satisfactory shown that it will take a lot of convincing before they decide to incorporate new—and better technologies—in.
2019-2-24 22:45 | |
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Whilst debate raged throughout the Bitcoin community over whether the block size limit should be increased and how, Luke-jr for years stood out for arguing the exact opposite position.
2019-2-15 19:18 | |
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In a very interesting essay, Hank Sohota, a Holochain enthusiast explains a philosophy differences between blockchain and holochain. Even though blockchain saw its popularity soar and fall quickly in the last 2 years, holochain is still fairly unknown in the broader tech community probably because of its radically different agent-centric approach to network design.
2019-2-10 18:01 | |
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In a recent blog post, Michael Dubrovsky, the founder of PoWx, explains how the Optical Proof-of-Work (oPoW) works and how it can help Bitcoin (BTC) scale and reduce energy consumption. At the moment, Proof-of-Work (PoW) activities to secure the Bitcoin network require a lot of energy to power the ASIC mining hardware. This is something […]
2019-1-28 23:19 | |
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A new point-of-sale (PoS) app released by Zap allows merchants to independently accept transactions on the Lightning Network. Jack Mallers, the founder of Zap, described some of the properties of this new app on a recent Twitter thread.
2019-1-26 01:39 | |
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Who said that Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) was dead? Well, a lot of people, actually. With the disappointment over the ICO craze that happened in 2017, investors are giving considerably less money to ICOs today.
2019-1-25 19:45 | |
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Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. If you’ve been following cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology in recent months, you will have come across a lot of debate about ‘forks’.
2019-1-23 12:59 | |
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This is the fifth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 , on Day 3 , onDay 4 and on Day 5.
2019-1-23 01:05 | |
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One problem that concerns many is the centralization of mining within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Fortunately, there are talented developers working to solve this problem and Matt Corallo, full-time Bitcoin developer at Chaincode Labs, is one of them.
2019-1-26 23:50 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) has been facing a lot of problems that they soon will need to take action against to keep moving. The digital asset already has a limited supply, as determined when it was originally created.
2019-1-22 22:09 | |
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Whenever I claim that bitcoin is the only decentralized cryptocurrency, I get one of two arguments:My X coin is also decentralized. Bitcoin isn’t decentralized because of Core and/or miners.
2019-1-21 21:52 | |
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To be honest, I hate the word “identity. ” There’s a lot of talk about this now, but if anyone is telling you they’re building “identity” on a public network, you should run immediately. Why? Because it’s probably the worst thing to do.
2019-1-19 15:30 | |
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In recent years, Facebook has arguably been the most popular app in a lot of major markets across the globe. However, WhatsApp, one of the apps it acquired, has surpassed it in terms of monthly active users.
2019-1-17 15:28 | |
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Even though a lot of Ethereum users were excited about the Constantinople hard fork, it seems that will not be happening after all. Another unforeseen delay in deploying this network upgrade could have a disastrous effect on the Ethereum price.
2019-1-16 12:54 | |
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Some Bitcoin investors who have lost faith in their first desire are ditching BTC for Tron TRX seeking higher returns on investment. Recent development growth in Tron network has stirred up a lot of positive responses from existing and potential investors.
2019-1-14 12:28 | |
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Pundi X’s (NPXS) new XPhone attracted a lot of buzz at CES 2019 in Las Vegas this week. The idea of a smartphone that can run on blockchain technology sounds like a dream to hardcore crypto fans.
2019-1-12 21:00 | |
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A lot of eyes are still on the top cryptocurrencies and digital assets ranked by market cap. It would appear none of these markets will budge much unless Bitcoin goes through a major bull run. Even though Ethereum is slated to undergo a big network upgrade soon, most traders are not even excited for it, […] The post Ethereum Price Doens’t see Much pre-Fork Excitement appeared first on NullTX.
2019-1-12 13:39 | |
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Tron selected the former supervisory attorney of SEC to further extend its arms of partnership with the best hands to move forward its formidable team. The former SEC attorney will be joining Tron network as its first compliance officer.
2019-1-10 00:49 | |
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Last year the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community welcomed a BCH-based social media network called Memo. cash. Since then Memo has gathered a lot of traction with hundreds of profiles and thousands of onchain updates and conversations posted to the BCH chain.
2019-1-7 07:25 | |
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Bitcoin Fundamentals Hinting At Bear Trend Willy Woo, a leading Australian crypto researcher, analyst, and commentator, recently took to his well-followed Twitter feed to convey his latest bit of Bitcoin (BTC)-related analysis.
2019-1-7 01:00 | |
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Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of San Francisco based startup Ripple, has focused a lot of his efforts in the past to defend the cryptocurrency his company made, XRP. Many critics pointed out in the past that XRP is a heavily centralized cryptocurrency, mostly due to the way its validator network is structured and due to […] The post Is XRP Really More Decentralized Than Bitcoin And Ethereum, as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse claims appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.
2018-12-26 07:08 | |
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Minisketch is a new solution that’s trying to solve an old problem. Spearheaded by Blockstream co-founder Pieter Wuille, Bitcoin Core contributor and fellow Blockstream co-founder Gregory Maxwell, and Blockstream software engineer Gleb Naumenko, the open-source initiative is designed to achieve set reconciliation between the mempools of each full node.
2018-12-18 18:48 | |
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While most crypto investors are shooting for the moon, Blockstream is focused on things a bit closer to Earth: in the outermost layer of its atmosphere, to be exact.
2018-12-18 00:31 | |
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Roger Ver is known for a lot of things, and he has been a major supporter of Bitcoin adoption in the entire industry for quite a while. He believes in economic freedom, which is exactly what he sees in Bitcoin.
2018-12-17 21:04 | |
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WORBLI, a decentralized fintech platform built on the EOS blockchain is determined to deliver the first-ever compliant financial services network (FSN). While distributed ledger technology, also known as blockchain technology has a lot of potentials to revolutionize the global economy, there are however many problems hampering its widespread adoption, including compliance, regulation and more.
2018-12-8 22:44 | |
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Latest Ripple News Thing is, there is a lot of development as far as Ripple’s XRP adoption is concerned. As a network–whose main objective is to provide bankers with a better, faster and more efficient alternative while taking on the dominant, 40-year old mainstay SWIFT–expand, Ripple’s executives are working overtime not only for them to […]
2018-12-5 17:17 | |
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Decentralization is one of the most debated topics in the blockchain and crypto industry and now something that has happened on the EOS network has sparked a lot of discussion about the future of decentralization in the network after Starteos, a block producer for the network has offered money for people who voted in it. […]
2018-12-4 02:12 | |
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