Other Public Protocols

Bitcoin SV

In Big Block Hard Fork, Craig Wright’s Bitcoin Has Left Nodes Behind

After a recent network upgrade, nodes separated from the bitcoin SV blockchain, highlighting why hard forks prompt much infighting among devs.

Tech  ·  10 August 2019
Ethereum

Cosmos Will Have 3 Coding Languages – Here’s Why That Matters

Ethereum rival Cosmos will offer users the choice of coding in at least three different programming languages for smart-contract development.

Tech  ·  6 August 2019
Mining

Litecoin Just Halved Its Crypto Rewards for Miners

Litecoin, the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market value, has just reduced its block reward for miners by half.

Tech  ·  5 August 2019
Ethereum

AWS Backs $100,000 Competition to ‘Change the Face of Blockchain’

Amazon Web Services, the Ethereum Foundation and others hope to help solve a key problem for blockchains via a new competition.

Tech  ·  2 August 2019
Governance

Zooko Wilcox Pushes for New Developer Fund to Support Zcash

Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox has called for the creation of a new "Dev Fund" to support the operations of the privacy-focused cryptocurrency.

Tech  ·  1 August 2019
Polkadot

Polkadot Tokens Valued at $75 Pre-Launch in Crypto ‘Futures’ Offering

They don't exist yet, but you can soon buy Polkadot tokens from CoinFLEX via a new mechanism: the initial futures offering (IFO).

Business  ·  16 July 2019
Staking

Staking Isn’t Just a Way to Earn Crypto Money – And It Shouldn’t Be

Staking is getting attention for all the wrong reasons, and it’s time to re-examine its role, argues Decred's Jake Yocom-Piatt.

Tech  ·  22 June 2019
Hard Forks

Ethereum Classic’s Next Crypto Code Upgrade Set for September

After dissent earlier this month, ethereum classic developers decided today to recommit to a hard fork activation date in September.

Tech  ·  20 June 2019
Cosmos

Tendermint Says Last Month’s Cosmos Vulnerability Exposed Security Loophole

Tendermint, the firm behind the core technology of Cosmos, has released a full disclosure about a past vulnerability in the Cosmos SDK.

Tech  ·  17 June 2019
Monero

Inside Monero’s ‘Last Ditch Effort’ to Block Crypto Mining ASICs

The Monero community is making one last attempt to block specialized mining hardware devices from the network.

Tech  ·  12 June 2019
Exchanges

Initial Exchange Offerings Are Providing Big Returns, But Why?

IEOs are some of the hottest crypto investments of 2019, with many having already provided triple-digit returns. Better yet, there may be a way to help predict their price movements.

Markets  ·  12 June 2019
Privacy

Enigma Launches Second Testnet for ‘Secret Contract’ Blockchain

Ethereum developers can now start coding specialized smart contracts called "secret contracts" that leverage the Enigma protocol for data privacy.

Tech  ·  11 June 2019
Bitcoin

Why Academics Love Bitcoin – and Crypto

For academics, bitcoin, and more broadly crypto, is an exciting space where the ideas they write up in papers actually get built and tested.

Tech  ·  10 June 2019
Hard Forks

Ethereum Classic to Test Code for ‘Atlantis’ Upgrade This Month

Ethereum classic developers are speeding up plans to test a proposed upgrade for the blockchain network later this month.

Tech  ·  7 June 2019
China

NEO Releases Detailed Financials Ahead of Cryptocurrency Relaunch

Many of the companies associated with NEO have proven to be a lucrative boon for token cofounders Erik Zhang and Da Hongfei.

Business  ·  7 June 2019