A-to-Z blockchain explanations
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13 Jun 2020 1 minute read comments Crypto Alphabet
Charles Hoskinson, CEO of Cardano and IOHK, has distanced himself from Ethereum, as seen in a recent Twitter post. Hoskinson was involved in Ethereum until June 2014. He left over differences in the blockchain's business model, according to a 2018 i...
12 Jun 2020 1 minute read comments Crypto Alphabet
KRNC, a new "digital dollar" cryptocurrency, is under development. The cryptocurrency will be built on a blockchain, just like Bitcoin: What if the best parts of Bitcoin could be added to the money everyone already owns? Wouldn't that be a fairer, s...
12 Jun 2020 1 minute read comments Crypto Alphabet
One Reddit user reports that Brave has re-enabled its sync feature. The feature allows users to sync data (bookmarks, history and preferences) between different browsers, including desktop and mobile browsers. Past user reports dating back to Februa...
11 Jun 2020 1 minute read comments Crypto Alphabet
For the second time, an Ethereum user has attached a $2.5 million transaction fee to a relatively small transaction. Both were sent to mining pools. Commentators have proposed many different explanations. Programming error. If the account is scripte...
11 Jun 2020 1 minute read comments Crypto Alphabet
Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin, suggests that the blockchain could add a feature called OP_CTV in its next update: For 0.20, we are exploring adding @JeremyRubin's CTV (CheckTemplateVerify) feature as a soft fork. Check out https://utxos.org I thi...
11 Jun 2020 1 minute read comments Crypto Alphabet
Coil will power micropayments for Hackernoon, a community-based tech blog, according to a new announcement. Hackernoon says that it has received a $1 million strategic investment from Coil, which will lead into a three year partnership. That deal wil...
10 Jun 2020 1 minute read comments Crypto Alphabet
Coinbase, a popular California-based crypto exchange, may add up to 18 new cryptocurrencies in the future. The list of coins includes Aave, Aragon, Arweave, Bancor, COMP, DigiByte, Horizen, Livepeer, NuCypher, Numeraire, KEEP Network, Origin Protocol...
10 Jun 2020 1 minute read comments Crypto Alphabet
Everipedia, a Wikipedia-like encyclopedia built on the EOS blockchain, says that it is building a more general DeFi Platform. With PredIQt, we are building an all-in-one DeFi platform for earning and investing. Everipedia will no longer be known as...
10 Jun 2020 1 minute read comments Crypto Alphabet
Ethereum researchers have proposed improved transaction fee models in a recent thread on Ethresear.ch. Right now, Ethereum uses a system called "gas" to pay for transaction fees and prioritize those transactions. There are three related proposals th...
10 Jun 2020 1 minute read comments Crypto Alphabet
David Burkett, the developer responsible for implementing Mimblewimble on Litecoin, has published an update on the project. In his May entry, he revealed that the project is still under development, but getting close to a working version. "Blocks wi...
