GetBlock is a premium RPC node provider and Web3 infrastructure platform. Launched in Q4 2019, GetBlock is one of the largest blockchain infrastructure vendors, offering RPC nodes for 75+ blockchain networks including Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BNB Smart Chain, and Layer 2 networks such as Base, Optimism, and Arbitrum. With GetBlock, teams of crypto applications don’t need to run their own blockchain nodes: instead, they can get connected to blockchains via ready-made API endpoints.
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The blockchain market has a long history of successes and failures. A one-time success can be very pleasant but staying in this business for years requires hard work and many experiments. Sometimes even a failure can give birth to something new. That...
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History In 1996, long before the Bitcoin and Ethereum appeared, the American cryptographer and programmer Nick Szabo described the principle of smart contracts. He said that it is a program that used mathematical algorithms to perform operations. The...
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With the distributed state of open-blockchain networks, there isn’t the possibility of having a be-all-end-all database and a corresponding server system from which its information can be queried, updated, or modified from or into.This difficulty get...
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Digibyte is one of the oldest coins on the crypto market. Its history goes back to the year 2014 when it was forked from the Bitcoin blockchain and became very popular. Its founder Jared Tates wanted to create a cryptocurrency that would be more dece...
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While Ethereum currently becomes a hot topic due to its future upgrade to the PoS algorithm, it’s probably time to remember why PoS is considered a better algorithm than PoW. To summarize everything in advance: it’s even more secure and less demandin...
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Blockchain isn’t a brand new technology – its implementations already exist for more than 10 years, and its concept was developed in the 80s, but it’s still unexplored in terms of real use cases. Blockchain technology is similar to the internet which...
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As at the time of writing, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash network data combined, are approximately three-hundred thousand Megabyte in size.Also, with the lingering argument on Bitcoin's block size increase, and the rise of new blockchain networks...
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GetBlock is a service that provides connection to blockchain nodes of the most popular cryptocurrencies with JSON-RPC, REST, and WebSockets. Now you can immediately connect your app to a blockchain, as GetBlock relieves you from running a node yourse...
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Ethereum is the most popular blockchain right now. In financial terms, Bitcoin is still the king with the largest market capitalization. But the majority of DeFi applications that are developed right now are Ethereum-based. It’s safe to say that Ethe...
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The blockchain industry is growing fast currently. It has many applications, not as many as people dreamed about it in 2017, but still enough to be considered an industry with enormous potential. Thus there are hundreds of various blockchains, some o...
