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Why Bitcoin Will Reign Supreme Over Libra (Or Any Other Alt)

Libra may be the flavor of the month. Facebook’s “cryptocurrency” may be the catalyst for mass adoption if it gets the green light. But it won’t tip the scales on Bitcoin. Bitcoin Makes the Hard Choices Every Time In a Medium article, Coinmetrics co-founder Nic Carter explains that Bitcoin’s design may seem clumsy to many at first, full of “flaws” that need to be fixed. дальше »

2019-6-20 20:00


How 3D spintronics will take hard drive performance to the next level

Spintronics might not be the sort of word that comes up in everyday discussions, but it has been revolutionising computer technology for years. It’s the branch of physics that involves manipulating the spin of a flow of electrons, which first reached consumers in the late 1990s in the form of magnetic computer hard drives with several hundreds of times the storage capacity of their predecessors. дальше »

2019-6-18 15:37


Bitcoin Is A Bet Against Gold, Not Fiat Currencies, Precious Metals Proponent Argues

Long term gold proponent Peter Schiff is yet trying to school the crypto community over Bitcoin’s scarcity or the lack of it. The world’s top cryptocurrency, as we all know has a fixed, hard supply set at 21 million which is deflationary in nature, as every four years an event called Bitcoin halving occurs that […] дальше »

2019-6-16 21:02


Aggregated Data Shows Bitcoin Market And Community Are Still Alive And Kicking

Bitcoin, the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency is now about a decade old. In that period, the asset, even though it’s had its hard times, has experienced tremendous growth on average. It would be correct to say that there are only a few projects – virtual or physical – that have ever been as successful as […] дальше »

2019-6-14 20:19


Facebook Recruits Bank Lobbyist for Regulatory Assist with Crypto GlobalCoin

By CCN Markets: Facebook has just hired a senior UK bank lobbyist ahead of GlobalCoin launch to help the company cope with European regulations. According to the Financial Times, Facebook will employ Standard Chartered European Head of Corporate and Public Affairs Ed Bowles from September as its London-based director of public policy. дальше »

2019-6-14 15:14


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