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Litecoin has long been a stalwart of the crypto sphere. It has been around since 2011 when it forked from the original Bitcoin chain. Alongside its big brother it has steadily grown as a faster and ‘lighter’ alternative. Over the past 24 hours however Litecoin has literally lifted...
StarkWare, an Israel-based blockchain specialist which commercializes a zero-knowledge proof system, has secured $30 million from high profile names within the cryptocurrency ecosystem, including Consensys, Coinbase Ventures, Intel Capital, Pantera, and Sequoia. Zero-Knowledge Protocol Startup StarkWare Raises $30 Million Netanya-based StarkWare Industries, which was founded in early 2018...
While speaking to Bloomberg, Ethereum Co-founder, Gavin Wood, discussed Ethereum and how the ICO markets will evolve. Wood also responded to questions from the show’s hosts regarding the market downturn, and how that affects digital infrastructure development. While speaking to Joe Weisenthal of Bloomberg’s “What’d You Miss?” Wood explained that...
The development of scaling solutions, along with a decrease in Bitcoin transaction throughput, has allowed for Bitcoin fees to drop under a dollar. A Bitcoin ‘whale’ utilized these dropping fees, moving 48,000 Bitcoin for just four cents. $290 Million Transaction for Four Cents, Where Else Can You Do...
A lot of things may happen in the Bitcoin world very soon. The controversial scaling solution known as SegWit is finally improving its market position. While this feature has been available for over a year, it is only now starting to make an impact. An Increase in SegWit...
Scaling of Bitcoin Network has been long due, thanks to various issues regarding consensus between the core developers and other community members. But now, things appear to be slowly resolving themselves amid controversies as Bitcoin Core’s scalability option- SegWit receives more support from the mining community. According to...
Samson Mow, the ex-COO of China’s leading Bitcoin exchange platform, BTCC has attempted to make sense of the on-going Bitcoin debate. In his recent Tweet, he mentions that the community members are currently arguing about whether the digital currency should remain decentralized or allowance should be made for...
Bitcoin is an open source, decentralized, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency. That has been the standard definition of the popular digital currency. But many agree to disagree with it, leading to a never-ending debate on increasing centralization of Bitcoin network. There are those who believe that it is highly unlikely for...
The Bitcoin scalability debate has been going on for a while now. The developer community is divided between the hard fork and soft fork and both the approaches are being backed by some of the prominent names in the ecosystem. As the community struggles to reach a consensus,...
What’s the future of Bitcoin? That’s the question on top of the Bitcoin community members’ minds, especially with the whole scalability discussion still going on. One of the scalability solutions presented by the Bitcoin Core is SegWit. The Segregated Witness soft fork is expected to enable Lightning Network,...
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