Bitcoin Halving: Definitive Guide
Bitcoin halving is often referred to as “Halvening”, it’s a formulated reduction in the reward coins offered to the miners using a predefined blockchain...
Why Use a Blockchain?
As the implications of the invention of have become understood, a certain hype has sprung up around blockchain technology.
This is, perhaps, because it is...
When the Fork Forks: What You Need to Know as Bitcoin Cash Goes to...
Around 16:40 UTC tomorrow, November 15, 2018, the Bitcoin Cash network is set to undergo another hard fork upgrade. But contention about this upgrade...
What is a Distributed Ledger?
Ledgers, the foundation of accounting, are as ancient as writing and money.
Their medium has been clay, wooden tally sticks (that were a fire hazard),...
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...
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...
Understanding Web 3 — A User Controlled Internet
Coinbase breaks down the motivation and technology behind the development of Web 3
This 3-part post focuses on the why, what and how of the latest...
Proof of Keys Explained: Bitcoin’s First Planned ‘Bank Run’ Is Today
Do your bitcoins really exist?
The answer might seem like an obvious “yes,” but the brewing “Proof of Keys” movement, launching today, argues the answer...
The third Bitcoin Halving is now complete.
As of now, 630,000 blocks have been mined on the Bitcoin network, and the block reward has successfully halved for the THIRD time....
2019: A Light(ning) year of progress
Another year is almost over. For those of us working on Lightning, the pace of change has been so fast that it’s gone by...
