China’s consortium chains may not be trusted internationally, says Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum co-founder shares his opinions on China’s blockchain progress and the Blockchain Service Network. The progress of the Chinese government and large enterprises in the blockchain space is impressive. However, according to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, they may need to do more than just deploy and build on private or semi-private consortium blockchains to gain […]

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BitMex awards its last developer grant to a Bitcoin scalability solution from MIT

Can this project provide scalability without sacrificing security? BitMex’s 100x Group has awarded its last Bitcoin development grant of the year. The company has awarded a grant valued at $40,000 to Calvin Kim for his Bitcoin scalability solution, Utreexo — a project originally created by Tadge Dryja from the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. Bitcoin’s protocol […]

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Expert weighs in on Wasabi’s response to wallet security issues

Mario Havel of Paralelni Polis has sided with Samourai. Although the privacy-focused Bitcoin (BTC) wallet Wasabi Wallet recently dismissed allegations that its anonymity features may be compromised, a third-party expert disagrees. In an August 19 blog post, Wasabi competitor Samourai claimed to have “discovered two potential privacy vulnerabilities in the Wasabi Wallet software.” Per the […]

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Block Size and Scalability, Explained

Debate over increasing block size for blockchain scalability still goes on, but what are the main arguments from proponents and detractors? The debate is not settled. Despite much of the great work being done, there is no one clear solution for blockchain scaling, and it’s possible there never will be. All of the possibilities explored […]

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