Bizarro World: Federated Sidechain Technology Promoted Over Nakamoto Consensus

On Oct. 10, Blockstream revealed that the company’s new product, Liquid, generated its first block on Sept. 27 and noted that a lot of the crypto-economy’s “biggest players” participated. Since Blockstream announced the launch of its federated sidechain, the technology has been praised by some and dismissed by others. Also read: BCH Devcon Streamlines Bitcoin Innovation … Read more

QuarkChain Competition Highlights the Potential of Sharding

Scalability has been an ongoing problem in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Most public blockchains suffer from serious issues in this regard. QuarkChain has come up with a TPS competition which will let anyone in the world get a hands-on experience with sharding. This is one of the many possible scaling solutions for cryptocurrencies, … Read more

What Are Dapp Scaling Frameworks, and How Will They Affect Blockchain Technology in the Near Future?

Decentralized apps, or dApps, operating on the blockchain face a singular problem: scalability. Take a look at Bitcoin 10 transactions per second (TPS) limit, compared to Visa’s 24,000 TPS. While a handful of high-quality projects and companies have partly surmounted this challenge with sidechaining and sharding, nonscalability has inhibited the progress of many otherwise promising … Read more

Op-ed: The Case for Adding CTOR to Bitcoin Cash in November

The following opinion piece on Canonical Transaction Ordering (CTOR) was written by Jonald Fyookball the lead developer of Electron Cash.  Canonical Transaction Ordering (“CTOR”) is one of the planned changes for the November 2018 Bitcoin Cash protocol upgrade. There has been quite a bit of discussion in the Bitcoin Cash community about this change. Also … Read more

Bitcoin Cash Can Scale Exponentially and Support the Global Economy

For well over a year now the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) protocol has shown quite a bit of capability as far as on-chain scaling is concerned. The creator of Bitcoin knew that the technology had to expand in scale quite vastly in order to accept the magnitude of global commerce and businesses on the blockchain. In … Read more

Top 4 Solutions to Ethereum’s Scalability Issues

A lot of so-called experts are still concerned over Etheruem’s potential lack of scalability. This topic recently received some mainstream media coverage, which shows the need for proper solutions. There are several layer-two solutions which run on top of Ethereum, each providing a lot of potential promise. The following solutions are ranked based on their … Read more

Upcoming Bitcoin Cash Changes Leave Community Divided

All cryptocurrencies must keep growing and evolving. Without evolution, projects will eventually disappear into obscurity. Bitcoin Cash is set to undergo another hard fork, although some of the proposed changes are not to everyone’s liking. Until proper adoption of BCH occurs, none of the proposed changes are necessary or warranted, according to some experts. Bitcoin … Read more

ChainZilla Helps Ethereum-Based Projects Move to More Scalable Blockchains

A fair few companies have shifted their attention away from the Ethereum blockchain due to scaling concerns. ChainZilla is a company which aims to facilitate this transition for teams who want to access a blockchain which suits their specific needs. It’s an interesting business model, albeit one that raises a few questions. ChainZilla Offers a … Read more

Bitcoin Cash Developers Debate an Idea Called Pre-Consensus

This past Thursday, the lead developer of Bitcoin ABC, Amaury Séchet, published a paper on the social media platform Yours.org about a protocol technique called ‘pre-consensus.’ According to Séchet, and other BCH developers like Bitcoin Unlimited’s Peter Rizun, pre-consensus could improve block propagation time, benefit zero-confirmation reliability and help delegate decisions tethered to consensus conditions. … Read more

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