Bitcoin

Can Bitcoin Overcome the Issue of Scalability?

June 18, 2019 Bitcoin 1

The ability to offer a currency that is regulated by its users instead of being at the mercy of large institutions has changed the way people think about economic exchanges. Since Bitcoin was released in 2009, it has grown to include millions of ...

Why Does Bitcoin Have Value? What Gives BTC Its Intrinsic Value?

April 18, 2019 Bitcoin

What is the intrinsic value of Bitcoin and why is bitcoin valuable? Many have asked this question since the king of cryptocurrency market came into existence back in 2009. Throughout the years we valued it mostly through the lense of its USD ...

Crypto Millionaires – Who Are The Richest Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Holders?

April 17, 2019 Bitcoin

Even though decentralization, anonymity, and fungibility represent the “holy grail” of crypto and code is considered to be the only “law” of the land, we have seen several notable individuals rise above these principles and acquire significant ...

The story of John Mcafee and his bitcoin bet (still on, btw)

March 28, 2019 Bitcoin

John Mcafee. Chuck Norris of crypto world, is an embodiment of an "out of the box" thinking. After entertaining the crypto community with his ever interesting predictions and shilling of complete shitcoins, John made sure to take measures to save ...

What Is Bitcoin’s Graftroot? Another Privacy Enhancing Feature

March 21, 2019 Bitcoin

Bitcoin developers currently have a significant challenge ahead of them, perhaps the biggest one they faced so far: improving the Core’s privacy and efficiency. Most of their efforts seem to be focused on the Schnorr signatures technology, a ...

What is Taproot – New Bitcoin Privacy Tech

March 21, 2019 Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s struggles with privacy and efficiency have been described numerous times in the past, but we’ll do it once again before moving onto the topic of today’s article. The language Bitcoin was originally scripted in allowed its developers to ...

What Are Confidential Transactions – Adding Anonymity to Bitcoin

March 21, 2019 Bitcoin

Importance of being anonymous Privacy, anonymity and fungibility are often cited among the problems that Bitcoin currently faces. While many laud this cryptocurrency as a decentralized form of payment in many ways more anonymous than traditional ...

Is bitcoin dead and when will it crash to zero?

March 18, 2019 Bitcoin

People love predicting what the future has in store for them. They predict sports scores, the way their interactions with other people will go, the weather etc. One thing we have recently started predicting the future of are cryptocurrencies. Many ...

How Do Cryptographic/Digital Signatures in Bitcoin Work?

March 12, 2019 Bitcoin

Digital signatures are a mathematical concept/technique used to verify the authenticity and integrity of information. In a manner similar to a handwritten signature or a stamped seal, digital signature is used to offer reasons to believe that a ...

How Does Bitcoin Lending Work And What Are Best P2P Crypto Lending Platforms?

March 4, 2019 Bitcoin 1

A struggle that many have faced ever since money became a thing is the opportunity cost of holding it. Having fiat money in cash and holding it in your possession is all good and well, but this causes you a certain implied loss. This loss is ...