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...
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...
Bitcoin Cash Upgrade Milestone Complete: 32MB and New Features
The Bitcoin Cash network has officially upgraded the blockchain protocol at approximately 1:54 EDT by extending the current block size fourfold from 8MB to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Battle For P2SH
“Push the date back two months. OP_EVAL just is not ready yet.”
It was the verdict Gavin Andresen had worked so long to avoid. With...
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....
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...
