Tag: bitcoin

News May 28, 2018 Davide Menegaldo No comments

Weekly Crypto News #7

This is a periodic section that features the most important news in the blockchain and crypto world of the last 7 days. Bitcoin Venture Capitalist: Buy Bitcoin, Hold Ripple, Sell Altcoins http://bitcoinist.com/venture-capitalist-buy-bitcoin-hold-ripple-sell-altcoins/ Despite Hitting Monthly Price Lows, Bitcoin Network Fundamentals Keep Growing https://cointelegraph.com/news/despite-hitting-monthly-price-lows-bitcoin-network-fundamentals-keep-growing   Altcoin TRON’s Justin Sun Reportedly Close to Buying BitTorrent Inc. http://bitcoinist.com/tron-justin-sun-reportedly-buying-bittorrent/ […]

News May 23, 2018 Davide Menegaldo No comments

Weekly Crypto News #6

This is a periodic section that features the most important news in the blockchain and crypto world of the last 7 days.   Bitcoin Back Above $8,500: Does Bitcoin’s Rally Have Legs? https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-back-above-8500-but-does-rally-have-legs/ Bitcoin Miner Maker Canaan Files for Hong Kong IPO https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-miner-maker-canaan-files-for-hong-kong-ipo/   Altcoin Hacked Crypto Exchange Coincheck Confirms Removal of Four Anonymity-Focused Altcoins […]

News May 15, 2018 Davide Menegaldo No comments

Weekly Crypto News #5

This is a periodic section that features the most important news in the blockchain and crypto world of the last 7 days. Bitcoin Bitcoin Loses $9K Support As Markets React To S. Korea Investigation, Mt.Gox Sell-Off https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-loses-9k-support-as-markets-react-to-s-korea-investigation-mtgox-sell-off/ Tim Draper: Bitcoin is ‘The Most Secure Place to Put Your Money’ http://bitcoinist.com/tim-draper-bitcoin-is-the-most-secure-place-to-put-your-money/   Altcoin Most Big Cryptos […]

News April 30, 2018 Davide Menegaldo No comments

Weekly Crypto News #4

This is a periodic section that features the most important news in the blockchain and crypto world of the last 7 days. Bitcoin MIT comes up with three ways to take bitcoin down. https://cointelegraph.com/news/mit-comes-up-with-three-ways-to-take-bitcoin-down 17 millions of total 21 mln bitcoins now mined in milestone for digital scarcity. https://beat.10ztalk.com/2018/04/27/17-mln-of-total-21-mln-bitcoins-now-mined-in-milestone-for-digital-scarcity/   Altcoin Will Ethereum or Ripple […]

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 […]

ICO, launch December 4, 2017 Davide Menegaldo No comments

Zen protocol – Smart contracts on Bitcoin blockchain

Zen is a protocol built with the aim to exploit smart contract functionalities using the Bitcoin blockchain. The instrument used to reach this goal is sidechain technology. Zen sidechain is a blockchain pegged with the Bitcoin blockchain, created in order to add features to Bitcoin and to exploit its characteristics, such as security and immutability, […]

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 […]