Category: Technology
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Deutsche Bank, Raiffeisen participate in global tokenized collateral trial on R3’s Corda
Fintech company Ivno announced that it has successfully completed the world’s first global token trial on R3’s Corda. Hosted on Microsoft Azure, the trial saw 28 organizations, including Deutsche Bank, Raiffeisen Bank, Itaú Unibanco, and the National Bank of Canada, create $18 billion worth denominated “Trial Tokens” and transfer them in the Ivno network. Crème…
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Next release of Electrum wallet to support Bitcoin lightning payments
Electrum, one of the most popular Bitcoin wallets, announced that its next release will support Lightning payments. The company said that it had written its own lightning node implementation and merged it with Electrum’s master branch, but did not provide an ETA for the new upgrade. Lightning finally coming to Electrum A hugely popular Bitcoin…
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6 Monitoring Websites That Help Track Bitcoin Cash Data
When it comes to cryptocurrency networks and markets, there’s a lot to keep track of. Thankfully there’s also now a bunch of dedicated bitcoin cash (BCH) data websites that provide easy to comprehend visual representations of network statistics and market indicators. Also read: Slovenia Has the Most BCH-Accepting Physical Locations Worldwide Monitoring BCH Network Statistics…
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Cardano team reveals details about the incentivized testnet that will bring staking to the network
In a live AMA session led Cardano’s senior product manager David Desser, the company’s team revealed the current status and plans for the launch of the Shelley incentivized testnet. Shelley’s incentivized testnet off to a great start Ambitious research-oriented blockchain Cardano celebrated its second birthday this month, the two years of extensive research culminating in…
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Block.one debuts EOSIO 2 with improvements aimed at developers
EOSIO 2, the second iteration of the EOS blockchain, was unveiled. Block.one, the company behind the blockchain, said that EOSIO 2 was built with developers in mind and will create a faster, simpler, and more secure environment to build on EOS. A new iteration of EOSIO is on its way EOSIO, an open-source blockchain protocol,…
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4 Noncustodial Bitcoin Cash-Powered Payment Button Generators
Bitcoin cash development is popping, whether it’s from engineers programming infrastructure or developers creating third-party resources. One innovative concept is the use of embeddable payment buttons that allow people to tip and donate using BCH payments. Just recently, a new BCH-based payment button was released called Donatebutton.cash, which gives anyone the ability to accept online…
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Bitcoin Cash Proponents Prepare for Forthcoming Upgrade Features
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Vg1HtTAec&w=560&h=349] In five weeks, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network will upgrade once again, adding two new features to the blockchain. The first component added will be Schnorr support for OP_Checkmultisig, which will allow more complex mechanics to multi-signature transactions and all signature checking operations will support Schnorr signatures. Lastly, the upgrade will finalize the…
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EOS.IO phasing out free network resources after smart contract exploit
Block.one is planning to phase out free network resources on EOSIO after the feature allowed an attacker to exploit a smart contract for 30,000 EOS. On the heels of v1.8, network’s first consensus hard fork upgrade, Block.one is moving block producers to eliminate free network resources. Currently, during times of low congestion surplus resources are…
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Qtum prepares for version 2.0 in its first hard fork upgrade
Qtum is preparing for its first hard fork since its inception back in September 2017. The system upgrade is focused on the underlying technology behind the protocol. Dubbed Qtum 2.0, it aims to integrate a number of functions and improvements to its blockchain. Qtum 2.0 On Oct. 17, 2019, at block 466,600, a system upgrade…
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Brave’s R&D team debuts privacy-preserving distributed VPN
Brave, the company behind the eponymous browser, presented the world’s first distributed virtual private network (VPN). The new form of VPN has no central authority and will function as a peer-to-peer network to preserve the privacy of its users. Laying the foundation for a decentralized VPN system The research and development team from Brave published…