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Bitcoin-Based, Peer-To-Peer Insurance Company Teambrella Releases Pre-Launch Demo Version

Teambrella, the innovative Bitcoin-based peer-to-peer insurance company, recently released a demo-version of its service. In anticipation of the product launch, anyone can now experience...

Economists Propose a Digital Currency for Scotland, Backed by Scottish Parliament and Banks

Economists at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland, have warned that Scotland’s financial sector needs to accelerate its adoption of technology to avoid a future...

Jaxx Aims to Be “Blockchain Agnostic” With More New Coin Integrations

Less than a week after Jaxx was advised that Apple would not allow Dash to be integrated into its iOS app, the digital currency...

Utility Settlement Coin Aims to Set Industry Standard for Central Banking Digital Cash

A group of major banks; UBS, Deutsche Bank, Santander and BNY Mellon, as well as the broker ICAP, have teamed up to develop a...

PnP Fintech Startup Program May Signal Industry Shift From ‘Blockchain’ Back to Bitcoin

For at least the past year, many investors and entrepreneurs have been talking about the power of the blockchain for use in a variety...

What’s New in Bitcoin Core 0.13.0?

Bitcoin Core 0.13.0, the thirteenth generation of Bitcoin's reference client as first launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost eight years ago, has now been tagged for...

Does the Open-Source Model Enable Bitcoin-Stealing Wallet Apps?

According to an Apple Insider report published on August 9, a disturbing trend has emerged on Apple’s App Store as a series of malicious...

Mimblewimble: How a Stripped-Down Version of Bitcoin Could Improve Privacy, Fungibility and Scalability All at Once

All (full) Bitcoin nodes verify all transactions on the network. This allows the system to be entirely trustless and decentralized, but also presents significant...

How to Secure Bitcoin Exchanges, or Why All Hope Is Not Lost

Last week’s Bitfinex hack, in which Bitcoin’s leading exchange lost almost 120,000 bitcoins valued some $70 million USD at the time, represented a depressing...

Bitcoin Core Devs Reach Out to Coders With Month-Long Coding Classes

Chaincode Labs developers Alex Morcos and Suhas Daftuar, and Blockstream developer Matt Corallo — three regular Bitcoin Core contributors ― will organize a month-long Bitcoin coding...

Here’s What’s Next for Bitcoin Wallet GreenAddress After Being Acquired by Blockstream

Blockstream announced the acquisition of Bitcoin wallet provider GreenAddress on Wednesday. In a post on the company’s official blog, Blockstream President Adam Back noted,...

How Falcon, FIBRE and the Fast Relay Network Speed Up Bitcoin Block Propagation (Part 2)

The Fast Relay Network, also known as Matt Corallo's Relay Network, is a relatively straightforward relay network setup by Corallo, and has existed for some years. The Fast Relay Network consists of nine nodes, distributed strategically around the globe. Designed as a hub-and-spoke model, miners can connect to the relay node closest to them to send and receive blocks over this network. This is significantly faster than Bitcoin's peer-to-peer network.
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