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Venture capital
$35 Million: Sequoia Backs Turing Award Winner's Blockchain Project
Conflux, a scalable blockchain project with a Turing Award-winning co-founder, has raised $35 million from backers including Sequoia and Baidu.
andrew yao
By Wolfie Zhao
Dec 4, 2018 at 12:59 p.m. UTC
Dec 4, 2018
Venture CapitalBlockchain TechnologyBitcoin ProtocolNewsScalabilityinvestments
ethereum developers
Markets
Ethereum
Developers Rally Around Ethereum 1x, A New Roadmap for Faster Scaling
Ethereum developers are aggregating efforts to implement ethereum 1x – a new proposed upgrade intended to act as the intermediary bridge to ethereum 2.0.
ethereum developers
By Christine Kim
Nov 30, 2018 at 5:00 a.m. UTC
Nov 30, 2018
EthereumNewsScalabilityEthereum 2.0Ethereum 1xTechnology News
web, browser
Markets
Payments
The New Effort to Get Bitcoin's Lightning Network In Every Browser
Devs are looking to make bitcoin's layer-two lightning network compatible with a payment standard used by all major browsers – and so far, so good.
web, browser
By Alyssa Hertig
Oct 30, 2018 at 4:00 a.m. UTC
Oct 30, 2018
paymentsBitcoinW3CScalabilityLightning NetworkBrowsersWorld Wide Web ConsortiumFeaturesTechnology News
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Markets
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Startup Acinq Raises $1.7 Million to Double Down on Lightning
A new funding round shows that lightning technology isn't just a big hit with bitcoin developers - investors are getting interested, too.
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By Alyssa Hertig
Oct 4, 2018 at 5:00 a.m. UTC
Oct 4, 2018
BitcoinNewsScalabilityLightning NetworkScalingAcinqTechnology News
David Chaum
Markets
Privacy
Ecash's Creator Is Back – And He Thinks He's Built the Fastest Blockchain Ever
Famed cryptographer and digital money pioneer, David Chaum, revealed he thinks he's built a "better" cryptocurrency.
David Chaum
By Alyssa Hertig
Sep 20, 2018 at 12:30 a.m. UTC
Sep 20, 2018
PrivacyDavid ChaumScalabilityecashMixxChainFeaturesother-public-protocolsTechnology News
shinypenny
Markets
Transaction fees
You Can Now Get Paid (a Little) for Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network
Lightning nodes are making money – albeit not much – displaying the potential for a growing fee market on the layer two tech.
shinypenny
By Alyssa Hertig
Aug 14, 2018 at 4:00 a.m. UTC
Aug 14, 2018
Transaction FeesBitcoinScalabilityLightning NetworkFeaturesTechnology News
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Markets
Microtransactions
Bitcoin's Open Secret: Lightning Is Making Better Online Payments Possible
An influx of lightning apps are mostly silly, but they demo a serious point: the tech enables bitcoin to compete with traditional payment rails.
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By Alyssa Hertig
Aug 10, 2018 at 4:00 a.m. UTC
Aug 10, 2018
MicrotransactionsBitcoinScalabilityLightning NetworkSatoshi's PlaceFeaturesTechnology News
birthday, candle
Markets
Payments
One Year Later, A Wave of Apps Is Emerging on Bitcoin Cash
Now a year old, bitcoin cash is carving out a unique niche for itself with new applications.
birthday, candle
By Alyssa Hertig
Aug 1, 2018 at 2:30 a.m. UTC
Aug 1, 2018
paymentsBitcoinBlock SizeScalabilityTokensICOsBitcoin CashFeaturesother-public-protocolsTechnology News
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Markets
Ethereum
These Digital Monsters Live on Ethereum, But They'll Fight on Zilliqa
A popular decentralized game couldn't take ethereum's slow, costly transactions. But it's not leaving the chain behind entirely.
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By David Floyd
Jul 19, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. UTC
Jul 19, 2018
EthereumdappsScalabilityShardingZilliqadecentralized appsFeaturesother-public-protocolsTechnology News
laser, sparks
Markets
Bitcoin core
Schnorr Is Looking Poised to Become Bitcoin's Biggest Change Since SegWit
Highly-respected bitcoin developer Pieter Wuille unveiled a draft document outlining the technical makeup of bitcoin's likely next major upgrade.
laser, sparks
By Alyssa Hertig
Jul 16, 2018 at 4:00 a.m. UTC
Jul 16, 2018
Bitcoin CoreBitcoinScalabilitySchnorrPieter WuilleFeaturesTechnology News