"Petty tribalism": Charles Hoskinson, serial crypto provocateur, capitulates. The industry needs billions, not petty squabbles. A former hedgehog reaching out... who would have believed it?
Ethereum 2.0, or how to turn a technological revolution into a damp squib. Proof of Stake hasn't changed the game.
Bitcoin is now at the center of an environmental controversy. Greenpeace points out the harmful impact of BTC mining. Even more worrying, the NGO accuses Wall Street of financing this polluting industry.
The revelations about Ripple are emerging as XRP struggles to regain its value and momentum.
Ethereum at $2,900: what you need to know about its rise to power. The reasons for its success, challenges, and opportunities ahead.
The European Union is to fork out nearly €1 million (in fiat or crypto?) to assess the environmental impacts of cryptocurrencies and bitcoin mining activities. Does this mean that Brussels prefers strict regulation of these activities to the ban? In any case, crypto-enthusiasts will be sure to follow the progress of this study, especially the publication of the first reports. The fate of bitcoin mining and crypto activities in Europe will in fact depend on it.
As Citibank rightly recalled this week, “Bitcoin’s electricity consumption is a feature, not a bug.” It is necessary to guarantee its decentralisation and cannot be obtained with the wave of a magic wand. This paper explains how Bitcoin’s decentralisation works, and why other cryptocurrencies can’t reach the mark. The legend…
Under the foray of Elon Musk’s tweets and the subsequent extreme price fluctuations… sometimes, important news can go under the radar. In this particular case, it is Bitcoin and the future implementation of Taproot. Currently, however, it’s a race against time. What’s happening with miners? Right now, miners can…
Shortly after word spread of Vitalik Buterin’s $1 billion (~£710m) donation to a COVID-19 fund in India, Elon Musk sought the spotlight. What could possibly be his motivation this time? Musk no longer hides from market manipulation Time of the crime: 23:06 GMT. Reason? Market manipulation or Bitcoin ignorance/naivety of…
Bitcoin Cash is one of the most well-known crypto assets today. Because of this, there are many people looking to find out how to buy or sell it. In this guide, we’ll take a look at how to make a successful BCH buy or sell transaction. We’ll walk you through…
Profitably mining Bitcoin as an individual is now a distant memory. As such, Litecoin, one of its closest cousins, sometimes referred to as the ‘digital silver’ (Bitcoin being the digital gold), should catch your attention. Before you start mining Litecoin, however, it is important to look at the reasons for…
Ethereum is the name of a network but more precisely of a blockchain. Each person who makes their own computing power available to the Ethereum blockchain receives ether (ETH), the currency of the network, in return. Therefore, when you mine Ethereum it means you earn ETH in return for an…
Mining is one of the ways to obtain bitcoins without having to buy or trade them with other cryptocurrencies. Mining BTC means you are at the start of the Bitcoin process, from the very beginning of when this virtual currency is created. So, how is it mined? What computer equipment…
Bitcoin mining is attacked as a particularly controversial activity in mainstream media for its supposed monstrous carbon footprint. However, this sector fascinates people around the world, including those within the crypto community, in part due to a certain opacity that shrouds it in mystery. Who are these miners and is…
Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s creator, is said to have taken inspiration from the pioneering cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, but had a huge ambition: to change the world. How did he propose to do this? By providing developers with the possibility of building decentralised applications on the Ethereum network. Let’s have a look at…
Every cryptocurrency has specific characteristics, which sets it apart from the others. One of these characteristics is staking. Ethereum is one of the cryptocurrencies which you can stake with, however only since version 2.0 that was finally released in 2021. In order to learn more about ETH 2.0 staking, we’ll…
Created by Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin is the most famous cryptocurrency in the world, and also the most valuable. It has established itself as a precursor of virtual currency because it forms part of the very first generation. Bitcoins are created and managed by a community of internet users who…