ICO, interview December 13, 2017 Gianluca Fant No comments

An interview with Zen Protocol’s developers

Zen team wants to efficiently bring smart contract functionalities to the Bitcoin blockchain. They want to use sidechain technology, which consists in building a new blockchain pegged to the Bitcoin blockchain, in order to allow users to build and trade advanced financial assets in a decentralized manner. We already presented their project in our blog. […]

cryptocurrency, ICO December 7, 2017 Gianluca Fant No comments

CanYa – A decentralized marketplace for services

CanYa’s aim is to build a decentralized marketplace of services exploiting blockchain technology. The vision is to create a virtual place where people can meet each other, a sort of social network, in order to provide or to buy services. Thanks to this application, who needs a professional for every kind of performance can find the […]

Bitcoin, forecast November 14, 2017 Gianluca Fant No comments

The scaling debate: Lightning Network vs 2X

Bitcoin network has an issue with throughput, indeed at the moment it has a theoretical maximum of 7 transactions per second (on-chain), nothing compared with 10.000 transactions per second supported by VISA. A possible solution is to increase block size in order to support more transactions per second, but this would bring to another problem: […]

cryptocurrency, ICO October 9, 2017 Gianluca Fant No comments

Eidoo – A step forward to decentralization

Eidoo wants to build a unique tool for users that want to interact with Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains even without having particular technical competences. Putting together Bitcoin and Ethereum experts is an ambitious challenge, seeing that in the past (in the present too) the two communities had difficulties to cooperate. Indeed two different teams work […]