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How Blockstack Uses Bitcoin as the Base for Their Decentralized App Ecosystem

Blockstack is a new ecosystem of decentralized applications (dapps), which allow users to store their own data locally and connect with one another in...

You Really Should Run a Bitcoin Full Node: Here’s Why

On day one of the 2017 MIT Bitcoin Expo, Sia Co-Founder David Vorick, who has contributed to Bitcoin Core, gave a presentation on the...

How the Equihash Algorithm Could Democratize Zcash Mining

Mining centralization is probably one of the biggest challenges digital currencies face.Many of Bitcoin’s properties, such as censorship resistance and double-spend protection, rely to...

Bitcoin’s Network Hash Rate Has Doubled Since October

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty increased by 16.6 percent over the weekend, signaling that the network’s overall hash rate has also increased by a similar amount...

Op-Ed: What Is the True Meaning of “Decentralization” in Blockchain Technology?

Recent years have brought significant misunderstanding of the term decentralization as it pertains to Bitcoin. Literally, it means the dispersal of nodes, data, miners...

SingularDTV: A Decentralized “Netflix” on Ethereum

The team behind SingularDTV, a blockchain-based digital content distribution and management platform, is planning the launch of a decentralized system in which artists and...

Antminer’s New R4 Model Designed to Be Used in Homes, Decrease Centralization

Once upon a time, at the beginning of Bitcoin’s history, it was possible to mine bitcoin at home using a PC’s CPU. Later, miners...

Ethereum Experts Debate Merits of Two Ethereum Chains

Although a large proportion of the Ethereum community believed the recent hard fork would result in one chain that the entire community could get...

How the Great Schism Can End Well for Ethereum Classic (Part 2 of 3)

In Part 2: How the great Ethereum schism can end relatively well for Ethereum Classic (but not so much for Ethereum One).

Rejecting Today’s Hard Fork, the Ethereum Classic Project Continues on the Original Chain: Here’s Why

Ethereum hard forked today. As per what seemed to be the popular demand, the protocol rules have been updated incompatibly with the existing Ethereum...
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