Vitalik Buterin Says People Difficulties Not Technical Difficulties Slowed the Ethereum 2.0 Rollout
The cofounder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, recently discussed the highly anticipated full transition from a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus model to proof-of-stake (PoS) as its replacement. Buterin admitted at Hong...
Ripple’s Chris Larsen Believes Bitcoin Dominance Could Fall Over Proof-of-Work’s Energy Consumption
Ripple Labs cofounder Chris Larsen has a bone to pick with bitcoin and crypto networks that leverage proof-of-work (PoW). Larsen’s latest write-up explains that the crypto industry needs to...
Bittorrent Creator Bram Cohen’s Crypto Project Chia Sparks Hard Drive and SSD Shortages
On May 3, tokens stemming from the Chia network, a smart transaction blockchain created by the Bittorrent creator Bram Cohen, will start trading and transactions will be fully enabled....
Mining Rig Makers Race to Create Next-Gen Ethereum Miner Before Staking-Only Kicks In
The Ethereum network’s 2.0 transition has pushed the protocol to become one of the largest staking networks in the world with 1,683,905 ether locked into the contract worth $1...
Hash War: Mystery Miner’s Empty Block Attack Makes ABC’s New Blockchain Almost Unusable
According to various reports, the Bitcoin ABC pro-IFP chain has been under ‘attack’ for a number of consecutive days now. The mystery miner has been mining a great number...
What’s Blockchain Know-how? How Safe is it?
Bitcoin’s inception in 2009 launched the idea of exhausting cash to the world. A peer-to-peer monetary settlement system which is free from centralized management. It additionally gave an perception...
Amazon Recordsdata Proof-Of-Work Patent Utilizing Cryptography
Amazon this week filed a US patent for a Proof-of-Work system which makes use of cryptography to generate Merkle timber. The Bitcoin and Ethereum networks use such ‘hash trees’...
Stacks Network Plans to Leverage BTC’s Proof of Work and Burn Bitcoins
Blockchain startup Blockstack has revealed the company is in the midst of developing a new distributed ledger protocol called Stacks, a chain that leverages the hash power from the...
