Blockstream

On a typical blockchain, all participants check all transactions. This level of transparency can offer much security, as public verification ensures no single participant...

The seminal Bitcoin sidechains white paper “Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains,” released in 2014 by a team that went on to form Blockstream,...

The Scaling Bitcoin conference, held at the Politecnico Milan, returned for its third iteration this weekend, with the focus throughout the speaking slots and workshops shifting...

Blockstream engineers Paul “Rusty” Russell and Dr. Christian Decker completed their first lightning transaction on Bitcoin’s testnet this week. The test transaction was made...

Blockstream announced the acquisition of Bitcoin wallet provider GreenAddress on Wednesday. In a post on the company’s official blog, Blockstream President Adam Back noted,...

To enhance privacy, it is possible to hide the amount of bitcoins transacted. An early version of this concept, then referred to as “bitcoins with homomorphic value,” was first proposed in 2013 by hashcash inventor and current Blockstream president Dr. Adam Back.

Altcoins have a long tradition in the Bitcoin community, but they tend to cause a contentious divide among those who think they’re useful and...

For many people involved with Bitcoin, altcoins are nothing more than testnets. Hundreds of digital currencies are currently listed on CoinCap.io, but Bitcoin still...

Over the past year or two, the main topic of conversation in the Bitcoin community has been how the system is going to eventually...

Funding Bitcoin development seems to have always been problematic.While the Bitcoin industry collectively has raised more than a billion dollars worth of investment over the...