Bitcoin’s First Public Mining Pool Is Rebranding
The company behind Slush Pool, the first cryptocurrency mining pool to make its services publicly available, is rebranding.
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Can Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Power Payments in a Japanese Bar?
A bar in Japan is teaming up with a locally-based lightning startup to let customers pay using the experimental payments network.
Maxwell, Wuille Co-Author Proposal for a Big Boost to Bitcoin’s Bandwidth
A new paper outlines a proposed protocol that seeks to boost the bandwidth for bitcoin nodes.
EY Open-Sources ‘Nightfall’ Code for Private Transactions on Ethereum
One of the world’s largest consultancy firms has released a new set of protocols for enabling private transactions atop the ethereum blockchain.
Ethereum Classic May Delay Upcoming Hard Fork ‘Atlantis’
Ethereum Classic developer failed to reach consensus today a “final call” to approve, update or reject upcoming system-wide upgrade or hard fork, Atlantis.
In First, Tezos Blockchain Activates Upgrade By Token Holder Voting
The Tezos blockchain has officially been upgraded. In a first for Tezos, two separate backwards-incompatible changes have been activated on the network after three months of on-chain voting by stakeholders. The Tezos self-amendment process which began for this first time back in February came to a close late Wednesday with the successful activation of an … Read more
Associated Press Rules ‘Crypto’ Isn’t a Substitute for ‘Cryptocurrency’
The AP Stylebook, a venerable handbook for journalists, academics and other writers, has issued a guideline that should make the infosec community happy – if not cryptocurrency enthusiasts. In short, don’t call digital money “crypto.” The six-letter word was traditionally associated with cryptography, but in recent years has been used to refer to bitcoin and the … Read more
MakerDAO Finally Approves DAI Fee Decrease After 11-Day Deliberation
After nearly two weeks of continuous voting, MakerDAO token holders have officially activated a decrease to DAI stablecoin fees. DAI is an ethereum-based token which presently maintains a soft peg to the U.S. dollar. In recent months, fees have increased dramatically for users to loan out DAI from the MakerDAO system. This was because since … Read more
Tezos Is About to Enact Its First-Ever On-Chain Blockchain Update
After nearly three months of voting by token holders, the Tezos blockchain will undertake a series of backwards-incompatible changes to the network on Wednesday. Called Athens A, the upgrade proposal was the first to undergo the network’s “self-amendment” process in which bakers on Tezos – equivalent to miners on bitcoin or ethereum – stake tokens … Read more
0x Teams With StarkWare to Bring Speed to Decentralized Exchanges
A cryptographic solution called zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) could help notoriously slow decentralized exchanges (DEXs) reach speeds comparable to more traditional platforms. San Francisco-based DEX startup 0x is partnering with the Israeli software-as-service company StarkWare to test a ZKP solution called StarkDEX, which can process roughly 500 transactions per second. StarkWare CEO Uri Kolodny told CoinDesk the … Read more