Mark “Murch” Erhardt tells CoinDesk about the weirdest, most surprising interaction he ever had in his years of running the Bitcoin Stack Exchange. Turns out the crypto world *is* that…
Continue ReadingMixers. Computational data layers. Zero-knowledge proofs: these are just a few of the technologies being leveraged to enhance privacy on the ethereum blockchain. Privacy for a public blockchain network is…
Continue ReadingJake Yocom-Piatt is the project lead for Decred and the creator of btcsuite — an alternative full-node Bitcoin implementation written in go whose source code has been used in several…
Continue ReadingTwo Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) have been approved for inclusion in ethereum’s next major upgrade, Istanbul. These are the first two code changes to be officially approved for the Istanbul…
Continue ReadingThe NEM blockchain project is launching a development studio to support its move towards a major protocol upgrade later in 2019. According to a press release emailed to CoinDesk, the…
Continue ReadingOne ethereum community member is about to begin what one might call a “friendly fork” of the ethereum blockchain. Called “Alternateth,” James Hancock, project team lead at ethereum startup ETHSignals,…
Continue ReadingIn a public call Thursday, Ethereum classic developers recommitted to releasing a system-wide upgrade, or hard fork, to the blockchain’s main network in September. The targeted block number for the…
Continue ReadingThe next major iteration of the ethereum blockchain – dubbed ethereum 2.0 – may see a partial launch as early as January 2020. Proposed by Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake…
Continue ReadingGeorge McDonaugh is CEO and co-founder of KR1 plc, a London listed cryptocurrency and blockchain investment company. Facebook is creating its own cryptocurrency – something that even those of us…
Continue ReadingBinance will issue a number of tokens pegged to leading cryptocurrencies on Binance Chain to boost the number of trading options on its platform. The tokens are also likely to be…
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