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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


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Lightning Loop Lets Users Empty Lightning Channels Without Closing Them

Lightning Labs, the development team working to grow the Lightning Network, just released the alpha version of a new protocol called Lightning Loop. Lightning Loop is designed to give users the ability to deposit and withdraw bitcoin from their payment channels (the two-way payment gateways that allow users to send and receive funds to and from each other) without closing these channels entirely. дальше »

2019-3-22 20:32


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Living on Bitcoin for a Week in San Francisco

When I decided, maybe against my better judgement, to live on bitcoin for a week, the plan was met by a combination of cautions and jokes from friends and loved ones: “Just don’t starve,” “Well, it’s the New Year, a perfect time to start a new diet,” “Will you be able to eat?”, “Have you really thought about it?”I had “really” thought about it and it seemed not only sensible but necessary. дальше »

2019-2-5 23:06


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Blockchain Analysis Is About to Get Harder as P2EP Enters Testing Phase

Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder. дальше »

2019-1-1 19:31


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Syncing Data Between Bitcoin Nodes Is About to Get Easier

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. дальше »

2018-12-18 18:48


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For a limited time, you can get a 2-for-1 discount on TNW2019 tickets

Tomorrow, on October 23rd at 3pm CEST, we’re going to try something new. For the first time ever, you’ll be able to get any two tickets for the price of one to TNW Conference 2019! This means that no matter your needs, the ticket type that’s suited for you will be available on discount tomorrow! Whether you’re an investor, an entrepreneur, or just simply dig our conference, you’ll find a ticket that suits your needs. дальше »

2018-10-22 18:42


This Day in Deals: Why don’t you just go fly a kite?

This Day In Deals is our new section where we share a historical fact and the day’s best deal – and try to connect them. The aim? To enrich ourselves financially, and you spiritually. Ever been the first to do anything? Maybe you set a school athletics record? Invented your own drink? Created a game? Well, something I know you weren’t the first to do was parachute from a t… This story continues at The Next Web дальше »

2018-10-22 12:45


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How Monero Are Improving Human Rights With XMR

 Listen Here – https://soundcloud. com/cryptodaily/how-monero-are-improving-human-rights-with-xmr Monero is considered to be the privacy coin, the currency of choice for absolute privacy. Now, privacy doesn’t necessarily mean security and we should remember that 2018 has seen a tonne of ‘Monero mining’ hacks, calling into question some of the projects integrity. дальше »

2018-10-12 17:00


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BTC and Crypto Volatility is Why We Won’t See a Bitcoin ETF Soon

Red! Red! Red! is what many traders are seeing when they log into their favorite crypto exchanges or check coinmarketcap.com. Many savvy traders who had set stop losses, minimized their risks as some headed to BitMEX and Bitfinex to try and cash in on shorting their favorite digital assets of Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and […] The post BTC and Crypto Volatility is Why We Won’t See a Bitcoin ETF Soon appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-9-6 09:40


STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


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Jason Attar Takes Cryptocurrency to the Big Screen in New Mockumentary

Award-winning comedian, actor, writer and director Jason Attar is once again heading for the big screen with his new project KevCoin: The Movie. A follow-up to his previous film One Night in Powder, Attar will don the guise of his infamous character Kevin Powder — a rock star “fixer” who’s constantly trying to reinvent himself through wild schemes — and take on the world of digital finance as he seeks out fame and riches. дальше »

2018-6-11 22:31