The first bitcoin smart contracts sidechain just reached an early milestone. To be revealed Monday at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2018 conference, RSK, the startup that built the long-anticipated technology, touted…
Bitcoin Developers Build Prototype for ‘Dandelion’ Privacy Tool – CoinDesk
Developers hoping to bring a higher level of transaction anonymity to the bitcoin blockchain have built a prototype for their “Dandelion” privacy project. The test, according to an email sent…
Bitcoin Lightning Payments Are Slowly Becoming Less ‘Reckless’ – CoinDesk
You’re running a full bitcoin node, know Linux and have decent command line skills. Okay? Cool, go ahead and spin up a Docker instance. If that sounds intimidating, you’re…
One of Bitcoin’s Biggest Investments Might Finally Be Paying Off – CoinDesk
Bitcoin appears to finally be making headway with one of its less-appreciated, but critical challenges: recruitment. Simply put, the number of developers contributing to the cryptocurrency’s open-source code is…
Crypto Needs More Than Code to Beat the ASIC Mining Threat – CoinDesk
Michael J. Casey is chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor of blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a…
Bitcoin Cash Is Bitcoin? Lawsuits Won’t Stop the Fight Over Bitcoin’s Name – CoinDesk
“Roger Ver deserves to go to (back to) jail for fraud.” For those not immersed in bitcoin’s byzantine politics, it might seem strange to see Ragnar Lifthrasir, a self-described “passionate…
The 17 Millionth Bitcoin Is About to Be Mined: What It Means and Why It Matters – CoinDesk
Bitcoin’s limited supply is about to get a bit more limited. Barring an unforeseen event, the 17 millionth bitcoin is likely to be mined in the coming day, data…
Cisco Claims New Patent Could Apply to Bitcoin Mining – CoinDesk
Network tech giant Cisco won a patent on Tuesday that could be applied to the bitcoin mining process. Cisco submitted a patent application back in September 2015 for a…
TD Ameritrade Put An Actual Ad on the Bitcoin Blockchain – CoinDesk
TD Ameritrade planted an ASCII flag – that is to say, imprinted an advertisement – on bitcoin’s blockchain earlier this month. The online broker announced that it sent 68…
Lightning + NFC? The New Plan to Bring Bitcoin to Retail – CoinDesk
Imagine a way to expand bitcoin payments to millions per second. Now, imagine a clunky, command-line interface. That’s the extent of the divide between the vision enabled by bitcoin’s…