Bitcoin as a Privacycoin: This Tech is Making Bitcoin More Private Ever since its inception Bitcoin has never really been private. Although Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper suggests privacy was a design goal of the protocol, government agencies, analytics companies and other inter…… Read More
Pay From Bitcoin Mainnet to Lightning and Back: Submarine Swaps Are Now Live In order to make payments on the lightning network — Bitcoin’s second layer solution for instant and cheap transactions — users must first fund lightning channels. This process, however, creates a slight disconne…… Read More
Lightning Network Payment System “SparkSwap” Makes Its Official Debut A new way to trade bitcoin and digital currencies is now in the books. SparkSwap is the first crypto exchange to be built on the Lightning Network. It allows users to trade both bitcoin and altcoins in seconds wi…… Read More
Breeze Wallet with Breeze Privacy Protocol Mainnet Now Available for Download The Breeze Wallet with the Breeze Privacy Protocol public mainnet has been released and is now open to the public. The wallet showcases Stratis technology — a platform built for visual basic apps and blockchain s…… Read More
Achieving Truly Useful Proof of Work: Toby Simpson of Fetch.ai What’s the best that can happen? That’s the focus of Fetch.ai in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI).Episode 025 of the What Bitcoin Did podcast featured a wide-ranging conversation between host Peter McCor…… Read More
PoWx Seeks to Change Bitcoin Mining with “Optical PoW” Nonprofit organization PoWx has launched this week with the goal of boosting the idea behind proof of work (PoW) through more innovative algorithms. The company is seeking to decentralize Bitcoin mining and make …… Read More
The Genesis Files: If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name. But few put it…… Read More
Op Ed: Scaling Capital Market Adoption of Blockchain Technology With SHA-3 The shift has already started; finance is moving onto the blockchain, leveraging the decentralization and disintermediation benefits of the technology’s architecture.Assets of all kinds are being moved to the blo…… Read More
To Better Organize, Decentralize: Matan Field of DAOstack It’s time to move past the inefficiency of antiquated organizational structures, and blockchains are the key. So say the creators of DAOstack, a solution that’s designed to intuitively move people into systems of…… Read More
The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin’s Motor Block [ANNOUNCE] hash cash postage implementationThe date is March 28, 1997, when the 2,000-or-so subscribers of the Cypherpunks mailing list receive an email with the above header in their inbox. The sender is a 26-ye…… Read More