DeFi has attracted significant attention over 2020 as hundreds of projects on Ethereum have emerged at the intersection of blockchains…
Watchtowers were conceptualized within the original Lightning Network (LN) paper and have since been improved and optimized as Bitcoin’s LN…
Bitcoin and Ethereum are the two most well-known cryptocurrencies today, with the former the legacy cryptocurrency created by the anonymous…
Throughout history, there have various iterations of sound money, from the Rai stones of the Yap islands to the gold…
As speculation of regulatory guidelines and institutional investment in cryptocurrencies continues to unfold, keeping up with all of the developments…
As the scaling debate in cryptocurrencies continues, some potential solutions have actually been in development for quite some time now.…
Blockchain networks, specifically public blockchains, exist as decentralized networks that need to maintain byzantine fault tolerance to retain authenticity. This…
Consensus models are a primary component of distributed blockchain systems and definitely one of the most important to their functionality.…
Merkle Trees are a fundamental component of blockchains that underpin their functionality. They allow for efficient and secure verification of…
Considering the extended bear market throughout 2018 and the financial stress it has placed on miners in Bitcoin, it is…
The Internet’s innate resilience to centralized information monopolies became evident in the mid-to-late 2000s as the failure of the merged…
IPFS stands for Interplanetary File System and it is an open-source, peer-to-peer distributed hypermedia protocol that aims to function as…
Sidechains are an essential innovation in the blockchain field with some interesting long-term implications and effects on the broader interoperability…
Blockstream is a Bitcoin development company that has positioned themselves among the leaders of innovation in the broader industry. Founded…
Bitcoin’s arrival into the mainstream was accompanied by massive evaluations of altcoins, a short-lived ICO craze, and many misunderstandings about…
