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Blockstream, Bloq, Gem, ItBit, Thomson Reuters and Others Join the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project

The Linux Foundation is announcing that the Hyperledger Project has filled key leadership positions and 10 new companies are joining the project and investing in the future of an open blockchain ledger: Blockstream, Bloq, eVue Digital Labs, Gem, itBit, Milligan Partners, Montran Labs, Ribbit.me, Tequa Creek Holdings and Thomson Reuters.

Bitcoin Privacy: “Confidential Transactions” Feature Can Fix Some of CoinJoin’s Problems

Andrew Poelstra is a mathematician at Blockstream and was recently part of a panel discussion on improvements for Bitcoin at the 2016 MIT Bitcoin...

I’m a Former Green Beret and Here’s How I Would Bring Down Bitcoin

“Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of WarAnyone with experience in extended, unconventional...

PwC Partners with Blockstream and Eris Industries to Create Blockchain Solution Portfolio

In January Bitcoin Magazinereported that PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the world’s largest professional services firm, had started an aggressive blockchain-based fintech development program and recruited 15...

Debunking the 11 Most Stubborn Lightning Network Myths

Earlier this year, Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja released the Lightning Network white paper. In it they theorize how a layer on top of...

Blockstream to Launch First, Instant-Settlement Sidechain for Bitcoin Exchanges

Blockstream has announced it will launch its first commercial Bitcoin sidechain by early 2016. The sidechain, codenamed “Liquid,” offers instant transactions, providing a fast...

The Decentralist Perspective, or Why Bitcoin Might Need Small Blocks

The block-size limit debate has dominated Bitcoin blogs, forums, chat rooms and meet-ups for months on end, while many of Bitcoin’s brightest minds are...

Adam Back on Three Forms of Centralization That Have Crept Into Bitcoin

At the crux of the block-size limit debate in Bitcoin is an argument between scaling and securing the network. Although raising the block-size limit would allow...

Back to the Future: Adam Back Remembers the Cypherpunk Revolution and the Origins of Bitcoin

Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast host Trace Mayer interviewed legendary cryptographer Adam Back on his role in the creation and deployment of some of the most potent privacy software...

Blockstream’s Pieter Wuille Proposes Tree Signatures for Improved and Flexible Multisig Bitcoin Transactions

In June, Bitcoin Magazinereported that Blockstream launched Sidechain Elements, a sidechain development framework with open source code, including an experimental sidechain for developers dubbed Elements Alpha. Now, in...
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