Tech

Bitcoin

This New Service Plays Matchmaker Between Solo Miners, Big Mining Farms

Compass by HASHR8 matches individual miners with mining farms to host their hardware.

Tech  ·  16 October 2020
Newsletters

Money Reimagined: How Ethereum 2.0’s ‘Lock Up’ Will Drive DeFi Innovation

As Ethereum's 2.0 upgrade locks up serious ether volume, we're likely to see financial ideas that unlock value without undermining mission.

Tech  ·  16 October 2020
Nigeria

Nigerian Banks Shut Them Out, So These Activists Are Using Bitcoin to Battle Police Brutality

As End SARS protests against police brutality surge through Nigeria, the Feminist Coalistion has turned to bitcoin as a financial lifeline.

Tech  ·  16 October 2020
Opinion

Five Machine Learning Methods Crypto Traders Should Know About

Quantitative crypto finance has a wide array of machine learning techniques to call on. Here are five, explained for their characteristics.

Tech  ·  16 October 2020
DeFi

DeFi Audit Firms Seeing ‘Overwhelming Demand’ Even Amid Token Price Slump

Overbooked audit firms are “rejecting” DeFi projects for code checks as the young sector wallows in its first bear market.

Tech  ·  15 October 2020
CoinFlash

Trump’s Security Hawks Call Distributed Ledgers ‘Critical’ in US-China Tech Arms Race

DLT is among 20 "critical and emerging" technologies in the Trump Administration's new strategy for preserving the U.S.' technological edge.

Tech  ·  15 October 2020
Bitcoin Core

Taproot Has Been Merged Into Bitcoin Core: Here’s What That Means

Bitcoin’s long-awaited Taproot update is one step closer to fruition.

Tech  ·  15 October 2020
Ethereum

High Gas Fees Prevent Ethereum From Being Ethereum

Miners are incentivized to keep Ethereum gas fees high, and in doing so limit one of the network's principal use cases.

Tech  ·  14 October 2020
Bitcoin

Brainwallets: The Bitcoin Wallet You Probably Shouldn’t Use (Unless You Have To)

A “brainwallet” refers to a private key that is stored in the user’s memory in the form of a seed phrase or a passphrase.

Tech  ·  14 October 2020
CoinFlash

If This New Tech Works, You Won’t Need 32 Ether to Earn Staking Rewards

Ethereum startup Blox is introducing shared staking pools, allowing users to aggregate their ether holdings to participate in Eth 2.0.

Tech  ·  14 October 2020
CoinFlash

WEF Releases Report Assessing Global Blockchain Standards

The Global Standards Mapping Initiative is the most "comprehensive" attempt so far to survey blockchain technical standards, the WEF said.

Tech  ·  14 October 2020
CoinFlash

Gate.io Unveils Hardware Crypto Wallet With Fingerprint Authorization

The crypto exchange says the device is launching for the China market initially, but will expand to other countries in the next few months.

Tech  ·  14 October 2020
Ethereum

Ethereum-Enhancers Not Ethereum-Killers

The new competitive arena in the so-called scaling wars is between Ethereum-enhancers, not Ethereum-killers.

Tech  ·  14 October 2020
Near

Validator Vote Transitions NEAR Protocol to Proof-of-Stake Mainnet

The Andreessen Horowitz-backed blockchain project successfully transitioned to Phase 2 of Mainnet after a suprise validator vote.

Tech  ·  13 October 2020
Ethereum

Ethereum’s Top Dapps Are Increasingly Turning to ‘Rollups’: Here’s Why

A majority of the top Ethereum-based decentralized applications (dapps) are switching to rollups, a layer 2 for increasing throughput.

Tech  ·  13 October 2020