The original text is written by Erick Zhang in Chinese on Chinese site of 8btc. (see article). Erik Zhang, the brain behind Antshares. Contact him: [email protected] Antshares Whitepaper. I.A General-knowledge lesson on Blockchain Since the inception of Bitcoin in 2...
Zhongnan Construction (SZ:000961) announced that the company plans to contribute 297 million yuan(~43 million USD) to set up Zhongnan Constrcution Blockchain Agricultural Company in Shenzhen. Along with Beidahuang(SH:600598), the new branch company will set up a joint company to bui...
Drafting Chinese angel investor in Bitcoin and Ethereum startups, Chandler Guo, onto the WINGS Foundation’s Board of Advisors will widen the platform’s access network across the East-West crypto market including to connect some of the world’s top digital currency exchanges. ...
Bitcoin's "most professional mining pool" has become its most controversial. Following months of debate over how to scale bitcoin's transaction capacity, the conversation has become newly contentious as progress on much-hyped solutions continue to face the kinds of delays that perhaps should be...
Original By: Jiang Zhuo’er This post was translated from the Chinese version originally posted on 8btc. The scaling debate has turned into a big ugly hairball in which the technical ideas, politics, and profit motives of all the players have become tightly entangled together, making it d...
Many people who don’t know much about Bitcoin, or who have a poor grasp on economics, have severe misconceptions about Bitcoin. I do not attempt to dispel those myths here because many others have already done so. Rather, I’d like to dispel a few myths that are pervasive in many people who a...
Over the past year, we have been working on a set of tools to issue, display, and verify digital credentials using the Bitcoin blockchain and the open badges specification. Today we are releasing version 1 of our code under the MIT open-source license to make it easier for others to start expe...
An increasing number of businesses and consumers are now considering bitcoin, a new type of currency that offers a potential global-encompassing digital payment method. With this growing acceptance, it's important to learn the essential components of this platform designed to change how we buy and...
The mining of Bitcoin consumes 1,000 mWh of electricity every day, the energy which could be provided to 30 thousand families in the United States. The idea that enormous energy will be used by the Bitcoin network to simply solve mathematical questions has always been severely criticized. Sa...
In bitcoin, miners join pools for two reasons. One is to avoid the hassle of running a full node — this could be mitigated by requiring miners to include proofs of blockchain retrievability. The other is to reduce the variance of the return in their mining. But why is variance so impor...
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