The Cost of Sound Money: New Tool Tracks Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
The University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School just released what might be the most statistically sound and feature-rich model on Bitcoin’s power consumption to date....
Author : Antje Holzman
At Bitcoin 2019, Scientists Cited in White Paper Weigh In on the Future
While crypto fanatics have been buzzing with news about bitcoin price surges and Facebook’s introduction of its digital currency libra, the Bitcoin 2019 conference brought...
Facebook’s Libra Is Here. But It Might Not Be What You Think.
Libra — sometimes referred to as “Facecoin” or “Zuckcoin” — is self-billed as “a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.”...
Regulators Are Already Breathing Down Facebook’s Neck Over Libra
It’s barely been a day since the libra white paper was released and regulators are already taking aim at Facebook’s new digital currency. International Reaction...
Snowden: “Mass Surveillance Isn’t About Public Safety. It’s About Power.”
If Bitcoin conference keynotes are like headliners at a music festival, Edward Snowden was Bitcoin 2019’s Jack White. Or Childish Gambino, or the entire Red...
Snowden: “Mass Surveillance Isn’t About Public Safety. It’s About Power.”
If Bitcoin conference keynotes are like headliners at a music festival, Edward Snowden was Bitcoin 2019’s Jack White. Or Childish Gambino, or the entire Red...
Asian Markets’ Appetite for Crypto on the Rise, Pushing Bitcoin Premium Surge
This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Tang. Bitcoin has surged above $9,000 to set a fresh year-to-date high since Sunday...
Regulators Are Already Breathing Down Facebook’s Neck Over Libra
It’s barely been a day since the libra white paper was released and regulators are already taking aim at Facebook’s new digital currency. International Reaction...
Facebook’s Libra Is Here. But It Might Not Be What You Think.
Libra — sometimes referred to as “Facecoin” or “Zuckcoin” — is self-billed as “a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.”...
Statechains: Sending Keys, Not Coins, to Scale Bitcoin Off-Chain
Block space is limited: The Bitcoin blockchain can only process some 10 transactions per second, at most. To resolve this, Bitcoin’s technical community is developing...