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Gaining a deeper understanding of a popular — but widely misunderstood — concept in blockchain technology: the consensus algorithm.
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Both broad and narrow considerations come into play when choosing a blockchain project’s consensus mechanism.
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Gaining a deeper understanding of a popular — but, meanwhile, widely misunderstood — concept in blockchain technology: the consensus algorithm.
2021-12-19 20:22 | |
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Gaining a deeper understanding of a popular — but meanwhile widely misunderstood — concept in blockchain technology: the consensus algorithm.
2021-12-6 19:19 | |
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Affected by COVID-19, the annual blockchain technology summit Consensus is held online from 11th to 15th May EDT. Consensus is hosted by the top blockchain media Coindesk. Since it was first held in 2015, it has become an annual conference for blockchain practitioners worldwide.
2020-5-16 11:29 | |
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At Consensus 2019, conversations about enterprise blockchain were shaped by these five storylines.
2019-5-16 21:00 | |
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I find it a bit weird that a blockchain with such lofty aspirations makes you scroll all the way to the bottom of their website before they use the word ‘blockchain’ but that’s probably just because I stare at these things all day.
2019-3-30 21:59 | |
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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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After a year on its testnet, the VeriBlock blockchain went live yesterday on the Bitcoin mainnet, allowing exchanges, wallet providers, merchants and other crypto businesses to leverage Bitcoin’s robust blockchain security.
2019-3-27 19:35 | |
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It’s not just blockchains that have to reach consensus: the people using them also need to be in agreement. Otherwise, chain splits occur, as has happened to Bitcoin 47 times and counting. Blockchain governance has traditionally been dull, involving primitive voting systems and low participation.
2019-3-26 17:05 | |
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Lisk is a decentralized sidechain and dApps development platform which makes it easy for developers to build and launch decentralized applications using Javascript programming language. Lisk sidechains enable developers to create applications with their very own blockchain technology backing them up.
2019-3-25 15:30 | |
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WeTrust is a public blockchain based on the Ethereum network and mainly deals in building decentralized applications for the financial world. It has recently launched a fun-raising platform called CryptoUnlocked, which would be milestone-driven.
2019-3-24 21:34 | |
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Blockchain technology represents a sum of many parts, and its consensus algorithm is certainly one of the most important pieces of this puzzle. Decentralized blockchains are envisioned as peer-to-peer systems that don’t have centralized authority points; consensus algorithms play a massive role in enabling this decentralized infrastructure to exist and work.
2019-3-21 15:02 | |
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Cardano has successfully deployed its 1. 5 mainnet, bringing the protocol a step closer to proof-of-stake consensus that “matches the security guarantees of proof-of-work protocols such as Bitcoin.
2019-3-21 13:50 | |
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Two Australian ministers prepare to send blockchain members of Austrade to Consensus 2019.
2019-3-20 02:19 | |
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Australia Gives Funding For Trade Mission To CoinDesk’s Consensus event Following other countries that have enjoyed great success following their embracing of Blockchain, the Australian Government has stated that they intend to become a force to be reckoned with in terms of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. In an effort to pursue his goal, it has been […]
2019-3-19 23:44 | |
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Central banks around the world have been notably removed from all things blockchain, and are more than mildly averse to serving cryptocurrency-related businesses. While large banking conglomerates like JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America often cannot be reached for comment on the issue, the general consensus among banks who reject cryptocurrency is that the […] The post Underbanked Crypto Industry Forced To Innovate Solutions appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-3-18 16:38 | |
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Australia’s government has committed AU$100,000 to support blockchain firms joining Austrade's mission to CoinDesk Consensus in May.
2019-3-18 13:00 | |
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While Blockstream’s researcher Andrew Poelstra will speak of Schnorr Signatures this May at the nicely named Magical Crypto Conference, part of Consensus Blockchain week, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) will be celebrating.
2019-3-17 14:49 | |
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On March 9–10, 2019, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a two-day event, the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019. Put together by the student-organized MIT Bitcoin Club, the conference welcomed more than just Bitcoin voices from every corner of the industry.
2019-3-15 01:08 | |
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In a bit of an obvious troll move, Motherboard used the testnet version of a Lightning Network message embedding service to embed the closing lines of the Communist Manifesto on the testnet Bitcoin blockchain.
2019-3-12 00:22 | |
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There’s a monumental shift planned for the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap. Ethereum is edging closer to its new consensus algorithm, which promises to fix the platform’s scalability and transaction throughput bottlenecks – but a new industry report claims it might not work.
2019-3-7 18:15 | |
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V SYSTEMS is a native blockchain database and decentralized app platform that aims to create a brand new digital economy era. The project is led by chief architect, Sunny King, the legendary blockchain developer and creator of Proof of Stake (PoS), who initiated the first PoS project with Peercoin and was also the creator of Primecoin.
2019-3-6 16:04 | |
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CryptoNinjas Public blockchain MultiVAC formally launched its first testnet named “Phoenix” at the end of February 2019. As MultiVAC’s 1. 0 testnet version, “Phoenix” is already developed with core modules including shard generating and splitting, Byzantine consensus family, storage.
2019-3-5 23:16 | |
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The DigitalBits blockchain is an infrastructure protocol that launched MainNet in March of 2018. With an initial focus on the points economy, DigitalBits integrates with existing consumer applications to help drive mass-market adoption of cryptocurrencies.
2019-3-4 14:10 | |
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There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization. ” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology.
2019-3-1 19:43 | |
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In January of 2019, student Conner Brown attended a guest lecture by a Professor Susan Athey at the University of Stanford Graduate School. She gave a presentation to his “Evolution of Finance” class titled “Blockchain and the Future of Finance.
2019-3-1 03:39 | |
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The general consensus of industry experts is that the adoption of blockchain technology is still in the early stages. The Wall Street Journal CIO Network is an invitation-only membership exclusively for chief information officers and technology officers from the world’s largest and most influential companies.
2019-2-28 17:19 | |
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Vlad Zamfir, an Ethereum Foundation member, is now working with CasperLabs in a major capacity. According to a press release, Zamfir will act as Lead Consensus Protocol Architect, and his Casper CBC protocol will be used to launch a new blockchain that will compete directly with Ethereum.
2019-2-26 21:32 | |
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CasperLabs, a Research and Development company for blockchain based in New York, has announced the appointment of a new Consensus Protocol Architect, Vlad Zamfir. Speculations have it that CasperLabs might be trying to compete with Ethereum as Zamfir was a lead developer for Ethereum.
2019-2-24 23:38 | |
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OneLedger introduces us to the concept of business modularization in blockchain, which is a fancy way of saying that it aims to bridge decentralized and centralized technologies. It’s not entirely novel but it does reflect the growing consensus that the reality of blockchain is that it will likely work in tandem with existing technology, and […] The post OneLedger Code Review: Business Modularization appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-2-23 20:37 | |
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Ethereum researcher Vlad Zamfir has been appointed by blockchain protocol research and development company CasperLabs as lead consensus protocol architect
2019-2-24 15:45 | |
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CasperLabs announced that Ethereum developer Vlad Zamfir, the creator of CBC Casper, will be coming on as their lead architect. CasperLabs is working on a proof-of-stake blockchain. They don’t have much else about them out there; their website is still in landing page mode.
2019-2-24 13:00 | |
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A new blockchain startup was launched today called CasperLabs. Aiming to build a proof-of-stake blockchain based upon the seminal work of Ethereum Foundation researcher Vlad Zamfir, CasperLabs has announced Zamfir as lead consensus protocol architect to the project.
2019-2-23 01:32 | |
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What matters in a consensus mechanism? Today, several blockchain companies are competing to prove they are the best. But what does that mean? The bulk of crypto companies have touted speed and efficiency as their claim to success, but there is much more to the equation.
2019-2-13 00:00 | |
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Bitcoin mining serves a 2-way purpose: of adding verified transactions into the blockchain; and of releasing new Bitcoins. Yet, bitcoin mining is primarily done to let Bitcoin nodes to reach a secure, alteration-free consensus.
2019-2-7 10:58 | |
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Proof-of-stake mechanisms are poised to become an increasingly prevalent method of achieving blockchain consensus over the coming months. By providing an alternative to mining, staking allows coinholders to earn new tokens by locking up their existing tokens.
2019-2-5 23:50 | |
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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. Despite the word blockchain being fired around with Gatling gun-like fervor, not all blockchains are created equal.
2019-2-4 19:55 | |
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Blockchain startup Blockstack has revealed the company is in the midst of developing a new distributed ledger protocol called Stacks, a chain that leverages the hash power from the Bitcoin Core (BTC) network.
2019-2-3 03:17 | |
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Some cryptocurrency investors have taken to earning interest on their holdings during this volatile market. They are now using a practice called staking or forging to earn some extra coins while they wait for a bull market to return.
2019-2-1 18:29 | |
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It has been announced that Lambda, a high-speed, Blockchain-based infrastructure project, has unveiled a live-launch of its testnet. The test network’s live-launch was done through the popular online community of developers’ hub, Github.
2019-1-31 03:34 | |
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The first major Bitcoin conference, Bitcoin 2013, was held in San Jose, California. Organized by the Bitcoin Foundation, it was centered on Bitcoin specifically and the more pragmatic issues that Bitcoin was trying to solve, particularly in the areas of Bitcoin technology, Bitcoin mining, Bitcoin business and regulatory issues.
2019-1-31 00:30 | |
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This article is a direct follow-up from our Taproot explainer. If you haven’t read that article, you should probably do so first. If Taproot is deployed on Bitcoin, many smart contract constructions will look just like regular transactions on the blockchain.
2019-1-26 01:23 | |
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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. The governance of blockchains is one of the most fascinating, contentious, and difficult topics to master, but it’s one we must try to understand as the network’s ability to adapt, and the extent to which it may be able to do so, will be crucial for its future.
2019-1-25 15:57 | |
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KIN is a token that initially ran on top of Ethereum and Stellar, but then moved to its own blockchain, a forked version of Stellar Lumens. The Kin Blockchain is operating in a federated model. A federated blockchain is a form of permissioned consensus where validators are limited to those in the federation.
2019-1-23 01:52 | |
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Blockchain technology continues to mature. Despite negative price movements, global powers have positively shifted their sentiments toward the cryptocurrency market. Many countries are further exploring this new digital landscape and developing legislative frameworks.
2019-1-23 00:09 | |
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ICON recently announced its major decentralization initiative. The plan will elect twenty-two node operators that will produce blocks, verify transactions, and participate in consensus. History of ICON ICON aims to design an “interconnecting blockchain network.
2019-1-20 05:23 | |
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Information about consensus algorithms is hard to find, even though they form the backbone of blockchain technology. These algorithms are vital to ensuring that distributed ledgers run smoothly, and without them, a blockchain would no longer be considered decentralised.
2019-1-17 19:20 | |
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We are less than two days before of the much-anticipated Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum blockchain and uncertainty has sparked as only 20% of all nodes have already upgraded to the new version.
2019-1-15 15:29 | |
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We are less than two days before the much-anticipated Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum blockchain. Constantinople has been set to launch on January 16 (block 7,080,000). The forthcoming upgrade was named after the capital of the historical Byzantium, the title given to the last Ethereum hard fork in October 2017.
2019-1-15 15:29 | |
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The infamous whistleblower and privacy activist Edward Snowden commented on bitcoin on Friday, after the Biden administration said this week it was shooting for 6 trillion dollars in stimulus proposals.
While Americans are still getting their third stimulus payments, discussions of tacking on a fourth round of direct payments to Joe Biden’s trillion-dollar infrastructure proposal have started trending.
On the heels of the last stimulus package, U.S. President Joe Biden is creating more legislation that may lead to a massive $3 trillion package dedicated to domestic needs and infrastructure. The recent discussions with Biden and Senate Democrats honed in on the political party’s “Build Back Better” campaign. The recent stimulus talks have a […]