The developers of the Litecoin Foundation immediately published two proposals for improving the protocol (LIP-0002 and LIP-0003), which provide for the integration of MimbleWimble technology to ensure transaction privacy. [Update on MimbleWimble & Litecoin]: @ecurrencyhodler, @ DavidBurkett38, & @satoshilite have proposed a draft of two Litecoin Improvement Proposals to implement MimbleWimble through Extension Blocks. LIP-0002 EB: https: //t.co/u2ORFy6yfD LIP-0003 MW: https: //t.co/u2ORFy6yfD – Litecoin Foundation (@LTCFoundation) October 22, […]
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This fall, the power of the Bitcoin mining network updated its next highs, breaking 108 EH / s. The hashrate…
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the Ethereum project, noted that support for the PoS consensus algorithm will make the ETH blockchain…
Andreas Antonopoulos believes that Google’s new developments in the field of quantum computing will not affect the security of the…
The Bank of Canada, the country's central bank, has published the results of a new study on bitcoins and cryptocurrencies.…
The upcoming Ethereum network update called Istanbul will lead to disruptions in many decentralized applications (dApps). This opinion in a conversation with CoinDesk was expressed by the technical director of Aragon One Jorge Ischierdo. In particular, he said, the work of about 680 smart contracts involved to manage dApps on the Ethereum blockchain in the Aragon infrastructure will be disrupted. “Until that time, decentralized organizations (DAO) […]
The year 2019 was pretty depressing in terms of privacy. Constantly heard news of hacks, penalties for violation of confidentiality,…
Bitcoin is a very new technology, even though the concept underlying it has been around for several decades. The problem…
Despite the unconvincing dynamics of the BTC price, the hashrate of the first cryptocurrency once again updated the historical maximum. If a little more than a week ago, the total computing network of Bitcoin was at around 83.526 EH / s, by now this figure is already 94.779 EH / s. As it usually happens, the mining complexity has grown along with the hashrate: Well-known Twitter user Hodlonaut noted that […]
It seems that the largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has embarked on the path of continuous improvement and expansion of its…