PoW

Technology giant IBM continues to actively explore the possibilities of blockchain technology. The company has filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for patenting a web browser based on distributed registry technology. According to the application, the browser will collect a predefined set of data during web browsing sessions, and then transfer them to peer network nodes for recording and storage on the blockchain. […]

Development team focused on increased privacy cryptocurrency Beam announced the first hard forks. It is expected that the network update will take place on August 15 at block # 321321. Beam First Hard Fork will be in Mid-August. Block Height 321,321. https://t.co/vzf8IEJfDq #mimblewimble #PrivacyMatters – @Beamprivacy (@beamprivacy) July 16, 2019 Hardfork is aimed at switching from the PoW-algorithm […]

The emission of Ethereum, the second most capitalized cryptocurrency, in two years can be reduced 10 times, reports Trustnodes. Ethereum-developer Justin Drake outlined key timelines, stating the following: “January 2020: the launch of Beacon Chain. June 2020: production stage of launching a lightweight client eth2. November 2020: fork # 1 eth1, designed to complete eth2 (according to a conservative forecast, emission reductions are not expected). March 2021: […]

In the network of Monero cryptocurrency oriented privacy, a new PoW consensus algorithm called RandomX from the developer of decentralized Internet Arweave can be implemented. It all depends on the results of the audit of the new protocol, according to Cointelegraph. At the moment, Monero developers implement hard forks every six months to avoid network capture by ASIC miners, however, this approach is considered controversial in the community. So, Arweave […]