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A Lawyer’s Perspective: Can Smart Contracts Exist Outside the Legal Structure?

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Richard Howlett, Solicitor at Selachii LLP London.There can be no debate that technological development has never been...

Stealth Transactions and Reusable Payment Codes: How Bitcoin Addresses Can Be Hidden in Plain Sight

Bitcoin, right now, is not really anonymous. While Bitcoin addresses aren't necessarily linked to real-world identities, they can be. Monitoring the unencrypted peer-to-peer network, analysis...

Here’s How Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Could Fail

The Lightning Network is viewed by many in the Bitcoin community as the network’s best hope for long-term scalability. The concept uses payment channels...

How Governments Subsidize Bitcoin’s Usefulness and the Bitcoin Price

Bitcoin Core contributor, Peter Todd, was recently interviewed on Bitcoin Uncensored by co-hosts Chris DeRose and Joshua Unseth. Ethereum, The DAO, private blockchains and...

The Bitcoin Halving Approaches: Miners BitFury and BTCC Not Concerned

The second-ever Bitcoin block rewardhalving is estimated to take place in a little under two weeks, and the overall effects of this event are...

What Are the Use Cases for Private Blockchains? The Experts Weigh In

Many people argue that private blockchains, run by private firms, are useless, since they make users dependent upon a third party ‒ the firm...

Understanding the Lightning Network, Part 3: Completing the Puzzle and Closing the Channel

The Lightning Network is probably the most highly anticipated technological innovation that will be deployed on top of Bitcoin. The payment layer, first proposed...

R3 Issues Buterin’s “Ethereum Platform Review” Papers–Opportunities and Challenges for Private and Consortium Blockchains

Ethereum holds a top position among the promising blockchain platforms being investigated by R3, the financial innovation consortium that includes more than 50 of...

European Securities and Markets Authority Issues Discussion Paper on Distributed Ledger Technology

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued a discussion paper titled “The Distributed Ledger Technology Applied to Securities Markets” for a public...

BIP 151: The End-To-End Encryption Bitcoin Never Had – but Soon Will

Traffic over the Bitcoin network has always been unencrypted. Transactions and blocks are sent from node to node in plain sight, as are Bloom filters, which are often used by Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) nodes. All this data can, therefore, be seen by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), open-WiFi providers and anyone monitoring the Bitcoin network.
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