On May 14, Bitcoin.com Executive Chairman Roger Ver sat down with Digifinex cofounder, Kiana Shek, for an ask-me-anything (AMA) session about the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Ver explained what he thinks about the central banks printing unlimited money, the government-induced lockdowns, and his opinions about certain cryptocurrencies like BTC, BCH, XRP, ETH, and more. Bitcoin.com Executive Chairman...Read More
The scaling of different cryptocurrencies remains crucial. Nano, an often overlooked altcoin, is seemingly on the right track to achieve this goal. All of these discussions need to be taken with a grain of salt. Nano Nails Scaling Properly Altcoins often tend to scale better than bitcoin, yet it doesn’t necessarily help them gain traction....Read More
Do you remember receiving your first bitcoin? Seeing those satoshis arrive in your wallet is a magical, almost spiritual, experience. In that moment, the most beautiful thing about bitcoin is not its censorship resistance or pseudonymity: it’s that it works at the first time of asking. No pending account verification, no weekend processing delays, and...Read More
If it wasn’t for Bitcoin there would be no Libra. That much is self-evident, since Satoshi’s creation laid the groundwork for every crypto asset that’s followed. The extent to which Bitcoin was responsible for spawning Facebook’s currency has now been made brutally clear in an interview with Abra’s Bill Barhydt. The investment platform’s CEO claims...Read More
Sharding is widely hailed as a solution to blockchain scalability. But projects that implement sharding technology may be introducing new security risks into their blockchains, according to the CEO of Solana, which could make them vulnerable to consensus attacks. Speaking to Crypto Briefing, Anatoly Yakovenko said that the risks associated with sharding far outweigh any...Read More
