blockchain

Tezos blockchain project completed the first round of voting, in which two proposals for updating the protocol were selected. It is reported by CoinDesk. Two proposals were put to the vote – 'Athens A' and 'Athens B'. The first offer won, which received 18,181 votes from bakers (the equivalent of miners in traditional blockchain systems based on Proof-of-Work). Athens A involves several backward incompatible changes. The first […]

The founder of Ethereum, Vitaly Buterin, expressed the opinion that for the network of the second most capitalized cryptocurrency, it is vital in the long term to achieve a throughput of 100 thousand transactions per second. It is reported by The Daily Hodl. During the conversation with the head of Abra, Bill Barkhidt, Vitalik noted that the developers are focused on several main issues – scalability, privacy and ease of use. […]

The æternity project, which is developing a blockchain protocol for open source smart contracts, announced the purchase of a share in the SatoshiPay micropayments service. This is stated in the press release of the project. The deal was concluded in the next round of financing SatoshiPay. In addition to æternity, Börsenmedien AG, AERGO, as well as Daniel Masters from CoinShares and CEO SatoshiPay Meinhard Benn took part in it. SatoshiPay will use […]

The services of the California-based Silvergate Bank at the end of 2018 were used by 542 client-related cryptocurrencies, including stock exchanges, miners, developers of blockchain protocols, asset custodians and investors. It is reported by CoinDesk, referring to the company's statements filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the document, in the fourth quarter of 2018, the bank attracted 59 oriented […]