Category: Bitcoin Community Debates
Blockchain Is Useless and All ICOs Are Scams, Claims Economist Nouriel Roubini
Forbes contributor Naeem Aslam caught up with renowned Turkish-American economist Nouriel Roubini at the Blockchain Conference in Las Vegas last month. Notoriously pessimistic about all…
A Novel Solution for Scalable Micropayment Channels Across Bitcoin’s Network
Scalability represents the main problem hindering mass adoption of bitcoin. To boost the rate and speed of transactions across bitcoin’s blockchain, various networks of micropayment…
Using Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to Solve Bitcoin’s Scalability Problem
Throughout the past few years, the public’s demand for financial anonymity and freedom has catalyzed the growth of virtual currencies, namely cryptocurrencies. Given the…
Cookies, Online Trackers and the Blockchain – Your Privacy is At Risk Part 1
Almost 8 years after the launch of bitcoin’s network, more and more e-commerce businesses are choosing to add bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies, as accepted payment…
SegWit Activated – The Birth of a Better Bitcoin
At last, a few hours ago the Segregated Witness, or SegWit, has finally been implemented. SegWit is the term used to mark a soft fork…
Do High Rank Users On Bitcointalk.org Provide Accurate Bitcoin Price Predictions?
The recent few years witnessed discovery of the predictive power of social media for various financial markets. Academic research has proven during the past few…
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Bitcoin Cash – Does It Have A Future?
On August 1st, at exactly 6:12 pm GMT, the first Bitcoin Cash block (block no. 478559) was mined by Viabtc’s miners, announcing the birth of…
Bitcoin Community Debates, Bitcoin Infrastructure, Bitcoin Innovators & Developers, Bitcoin News, Blockchain Infrastructure, Security & RansomwareA Novel Scheme For Protection of the Backup of Your Bitcoin’s Private Keys
Since the genesis block was first mined, bitcoin has evolved to become the most popular decentralized currency all over the planet. It promotes a level…
Pay Us Bitcoin, or Your Patients Will Die!! (Part 1)
On the 28th of March, 2016, a group of workers in MedStar Health (MedStar), a nonprofit healthcare system, which includes ten hospitals in Washington DC…
