Bitcoin DeFi, Bitcoin on Ethereum: We explore the ways DeFi and Bitcoin intersect. Finance Redefined is Cointelegraph’s DeFi-centric newsletter, delivered to subscribers every Wednesday. Today the crypto world is celebrating Bitcoin’s new all-time high. We did it guys! We’re back to $20,000 after three grueling years. So for this reason, this will be a bit […]
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Ethereum liquidity will no longer have to go through FTX to reach Solana. Solana, the smart contract platform that recently entered the spotlight thanks to FTX’s Serum, announced the upcoming release of what it says is a decentralized bridge for Ethereum ERC-20 tokens. Called Wormhole, the bridge would allow users to transfer value between the […]
Continue ReadingDevelopers were challenged to create a Bitcoin sidechain with the privacy features of ZCash, using Drivechain technology. Developers are competing to bring ZCash privacy functionality to a Bitcoin sidechain. To do this, they’re using the Drivechain technology created by decentralized prediction market pioneer, Paul Sztorc. As an added incentive, Sztorc has announced a prize fund […]
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Industry experts tell Cointelegraph about the latest cryptography innovations and how they will influence the future of cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies could not exist without cryptography. Advances in this field can have far-reaching impacts on blockchain technology and its potential. We will examine the opinions of industry experts on the latest cryptographic advances and their potential for […]
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Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex moved 1 .561 million USDT from the Omni Protocol to the Liquid Bitcoin sidechain. Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex moved 1 .561 million Tether (USDT) from the Omni Protocol to the Liquid Bitcoin (BTC) sidechain. Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino announced the U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin’s protocol swap on Twitter on Nov. 2. The conversion increases the quantity […]
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According to Adam Back, the Bitcoin tech pioneer who wrote Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains, it is more economically sound to build blockchain technology using altcoins today, rather than Bitcoin or its sidechains, according to Forbes. His paper is about the sidechains for Bitcoin that were introduced about 5 years ago. According to the […]
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