Enterprise-focused distributed ledger tech startup Digital Asset (DA) has landed another high-profile partner. Announced Thursday, software virtualization giant VMware is integrating DA’s smart contract language into its own blockchain platform. Further, VMware, a publicly traded company majority-owned by Dell Computer with…
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Top Bitcoin Casinos & Sports Betting Site Ranking & Reviews 2019
One of the biggest and main markets that have benefited from the emergence of Bitcoin gambling has been online casinos. While these have existed for the better part of a decade and progressed along with many other online gambling and…
2019 Outlook: Top 5 Cryptocurrencies by Market Cap: Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Bitcoin Cash & EOS
Article by Valdrin Tahiri Blokt Top 5 Cryptocurrencies by Market Cap 2018 for many, was marked by the almost year-long decline in cryptocurrency prices. However, those who work actively in the crypto industry were mostly upbeat and believe that real progress…
Sidechains Are Bringing ICOs to Bitcoin And That Might Change Crypto Funding
By the end of the year, an initial coin offering, or ICO, will be launched on bitcoin. You heard that right – on bitcoin. While ethereum, the second largest blockchain by market cap, and other smart contract protocols, have been…
Top Crypto Picks: 20 Undervalued Altcoins w/Upcoming Catalysts Due For Massive Gains
We have also added new picks for the month of June that we feel could be due for huge gains once Bitcoin has finished it’s correction. Bitcoin sets the stage for altcoins, when it’s dropped 10% you can expect a…
Bitcoin Cash Fork Leaves Users Behind, But Does It Matter?
Bitcoin cash now has 32 MB blocks and smart contracts. The controversial hard fork of bitcoin hard forked again several days ago in an effort to add new functionality to the cryptocurrency protocol and further differentiate it from its predecessor.…
First Bitcoin Smart Contracts Sidechain Now Secured By 1 in 10 Miners
The first bitcoin smart contracts sidechain just reached an early milestone. To be revealed Monday at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2018 conference, RSK, the startup that built the long-anticipated technology, touted as a way to bring ethereum-style smart contracts to the world’s…
Smart Contracts, Decentralized Applications DAOs, DACs, DAs and Other Big Words: An Incomplete Terminology Guide
Article by Vitalik Buterin Founder, Ethereum One of the most popular topics in the digital consensus space (a new term for cryptocurrency 2.0 that I’m beta-testing) is the concept of decentralized autonomous entities. There are now a number of groups…
New Ethereum Tech Brings Security to Scalable State Channels
The Slavic god of lightning, Perun, is entering the ethereum ecosystem (in spirit at least). Inspired by bitcoin’s lightning network, a group of researchers hailing from Warsaw have unveiled a new white paper entitled “Foundations of State Channel Networks,” which outlines…