Mathematical Proof That the Lightning Network Cannot Be a Decentralized Bitcoin Scaling Solution
Have you heard of the Bitcoin Lightning Network? It is a proposal that claims that:
“using a network of these micropayment channels, Bitcoin can scale to billions of transactions per day”
What it doesn’t tell you is that...
Bitcoin.org Owner Asks the Community to Change Bitcoin’s Central PoW Algorithm
This week the owner of the web portal Bitcoin.org and Bitcointalk, a pseudonym called Cobra wrote an open letter to the bitcoin community asking them to think about changing the Bitcoin core network’s Proof-of-Work...
Robinhood Adds Bitcoin and Ether Trading
Robinhood, the Palo Alto-headquartered US stocks brokerage app, has begun today to gradually enable access to BTC and ETH trading to its customers residing in California, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, and New Hampshire. Assuming that the...
NASA, ESA Considering Innovative Applications of Blockchain Technology
NASA and other space agencies, such as the European Space Agency (ESA), are considering potential applications of blockchain technology to space missions and internal operations.
According to a NASA presentation titled “Bitcoin, Blockchains and Efficient...
The Top 10 Cryptocurrency Blogs & Websites You Need To Be Following
Investing in cryptocurrency is one of many of our readers favorite new hobbies. One thing that many find is that cryptocurrencies can be extremely volatile. The slightest bit of news can cause the value...
Is Bitcoin mining worth it?
This is a simple question with a complex answer. There are a few different factors that influence whether or not Bitcoin mining will be worth it for you. Even with the rising Bitcoin price, the...
China Enlists Its ‘Great Firewall’ to Block Bitcoin Websites
China will reportedly block anyone in the country from accessing websites that offer cryptocurrency trading services or initial coin offerings (ICOs). Advertisements relating to Bitcoin and other virtual currencies have also been scrubbed from...
Coincheck Hacked: “The Biggest Theft in the History of the World”
This morning, the Japanese crypto exchange platform Coincheck was hacked and had 526 million XEM (c. USD 400 m) stolen.
It has nothing to do with NEM - there is no issue with the tech,...
Bitcoin Had a Strange Week. Does It Matter?
Bitcoin had a lackluster week, with dramatic drops midweek that made some question the hype cryptocurrencies had generated in the latter months of 2017. And then it started to recover, reminding us how erratic...
The Bad News Bears Come for Bitcoin
It's a bad day for bitcoin. Is it going to get worse?
The price of bitcoin has plummeted nearly 14% in the last day, and the cryptocurrency is now trading below $12,000, according to MarketWatch. The Bitcoin Investment...