Risk of SegWit – Mining Cartels
The bitcoin community continues to debate Segregated Witness, the Bitcoin Core development team’s proposed scaling solution which would separate signature data (witnesses) from transaction...
What Can a Blockchain Do?
Financial institutions have financed the disruption of countless industries over the last 30 years; they have an idea of what a revolutionary technology can...
A Guide to the World Bitcoin Created
Bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies. Smart contracts. Many people have now heard of the rapidly changing ecosystem of financial technology, but few have wrapped their heads around...
The Final Countdown to the Ethereum Merge Has Officially Begun
The Ethereum blockchain’s Merge is officially underway and will likely kick in sometime between Sept. 13-16. The Bellatrix upgrade – the network's final "hard fork" before...
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Satoshi Nakamoto
October 31, 2008
Abstract
A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without...
Lightning’s First Implementation Is Now in Beta
Today, March 15, Lightning Labs announced lnd 0.4-beta, the first beta release of the Lightning software implementation spearheaded by the development company. This makes lnd the first...
How Does Blockchain Technology Work?
As stated in our guide "What is Blockchain Technology?", there are three principal technologies that combine to create a blockchain. None of them are new....
What Is Blockchain Technology ?
You may have come across the term blockchain technology before. This most likely would have been in reference to Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency. If...
Lightning Network Centralization Leads to Economic Censorship
A few months ago, I wrote an article called “Mathematical Proof That the Lightning Network Cannot Be a Decentralized Bitcoin Scaling Solution”. It received quite a bit of...
Stablecoins: What you need to know
Stablecoins have been around for a long time since the advent of BitShares back in 2014. They’ve gotten more popular with the utilization of...