Blockchain

Avec : Julien Guitton, fondateur de la crypto-banque Suisse Condensat et contributeur sur le Lightning Network ainsi que le projet RGB. RGB est un protocole dit de troisième couche, car il repose à la fois sur le protocole Bitcoin mais peut également utiliser le Lightning Network pour son fonctionnement. Il s’agit d’une plateforme de contrats intelligents qui ambitionne de résoudre à la fois le problème de scalabilité lié à tout structure de données « Blockchain » et le manque...

The market for non-fungible tokens, more popular for their abbreviation, NFTs, is booming. It’s no secret that interest in it is growing, having many to believe that it’s in a state of a bubble.Now, data shows that retail interest in NFTs has surpassed that for ICOs back in the peak of initial coin offerings in early 2018.NFT Craze Surpassing ICO MadnessThose who’ve been here long enough are aware of how crazy the market was back in the second half of 2017 and early 2018. Major...

The morale among bitcoin hodlers remained high during the market correction. Most of those who acquired tokens this year were unwilling to let go of them, even if Bitcoin had its worst registered price drop..A chart shared by blockchain analytics firm Glassnode revealed that most of those who bought bitcoin in 2021 have not sold them. If a strong hodl spirit in the middle of a volatile market seems odd, The SOPR (Spent Output Profit Ratio) metric could offer an explanation.HODL,...

Institutional adoption of bitcoin is increasing tenfold, and exchanges are playing a crucial part in garnering these institutions the digital assets they’re so desperate for. Changpeng Zhao – the CEO of Binance, arguably the largest and most popular crypto trading platform in the world – has stated that he’s seeing huge bursts of institutional interest in his company, and that large buys are becoming much more common. Binance Is Seeing Its Clientele Grow Binance came...

A day after being indicted for several criminal offenses, including money laundering schemes and fraud, John McAfee has called the allegations brought by US authorities “overblown.” The former software antivirus creator also defended his ICO promotions and receiving payments with the particular coins.DOJ Goes After McAfeeThe former antivirus tycoon made a name in the cryptocurrency space a few years back with the “Coin of the Day” campaign, in which he promoted certain low-cap alternative...

The EIP 1559 is a welcome move for Ethereum users that standardize the transaction fee across the network and reduces volatility. However, mining pools have placed a strong opposition to it.As per the latest development, July 2021 is the scheduled period when the Ethereum Improvement Protocol (EIP) 1559 will go live. As per Ethereum’s core developers’ call on Friday, March 5th, five other EIPs along with EIP 1559 are likely to join the London hard fork.The Ethereum fraternity has been eagerly...

Edgecoinpay was designed after in-depth research into the end-user and the students’ perspective for the ease of use of the current payment system in the education arena.In a radical move that will change the infrastructure of the payment facility within the education payment system via blockchain technology forever.A team managed by L.A Investment Ltd and supported by Mr. Chandra, who is the director & shareholder of Global Universities have announced alongside many more universities the...

The TimeCoinProtocol’s TMCN token sale is a well-structured one with an accompanying lock-up period.The TimeCoinProtocol, a blockchain-based decentralized sharing economy platform built atop the Ethereum blockchain is set to expand the reach of its native token with the ticker symbol, “TMCN,” by bringing it to the mainstream market. Per a press release shared with Coinspeaker, the project which brings to the crypto ecosystem unique functionalities and offerings particularly in the growing...

The fact that NFTs bring authenticity to an industry which battles counterfeit and copyright infringements, makes the technology a value-packed innovation.American billionaire investor Mark Cuban has shared his views about Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), a growing discovery in today’s world of blockchain technology. Speaking with CNBC Make It, Cuban believes the discovery of the uniqueness of the new blockchain use case is ushering in some unique situations.It’s “like the early days of all-new...

Less than a year after launching its IOHK-owned network of federated nodes, Cardano is on schedule to reach full decentralization at the end of March 2021. At that point, the already established network of over 1,800 community pools will be responsible for producing all new blocks.Cardano Goes for Full DecentralizationWith the approaching so-called D (=0) day, IOHK, the company behind the popular blockchain project Cardano, published a post highlighting the latest milestone in its...