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OKX revealed the new roadmap of the anticipated OKB chain. OKB Chain (OKBC) is a new blockchain project launched by OKX, one of the world's biggest digital asset exchanges.

Orbs has announced the launch of its Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP) order protocol for users to scale.

Bitcoin Cash’s most vocal advocate Roger Ver and Litecoin creator Charlie Lee sat down for a conversation touching on various topics relevant to digital currencies as well as the cryptocurrency community. The debate was held at the end of the…

Bitcoin transaction fees are at their lowest level since 2011. The lower fees follow on from bitcoin fees rising as high as $50 per transaction at the end of 2017, a situation that did not have much economic viability. Consider…

The Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), a cryptocurrency and blockchain-focused research community at MIT, are demonstrating an experimental use case in the backdrop of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network that would amalgamate smart contracts with the Bitcoin network to scale further. The Lightning…

 Adam Gibson, a Python developer and bitcoin researcher, stated private or anonymous bitcoin transactions are large in size but can be scaled with solutions like bulletproofs. Private Transactions are Larger than Public Ones Anonymous transactions are larger in size than…

Bitcoin developer Peter Todd has finally praised the implementation of the long-awaited second layer scaling solution, the Lightning Network. Todd’s recent experience with the scaling solution saw him take to Twitter on April 21, 2018, when he attempted to make…

Speaking at the Deconomy conference in South Korea on April 3, Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin discarded the idea to discuss his 12-month vision for the world’s second largest blockchain, in favor of a more basic discussion on blockchain technology and…

The scalability debate is all across the cryptocurrency community. With major occurrences such as the CryptoKitties debacle clogging up the entire Ethereum network over the span of a few days, it is well-known that the biggest, public blockchains in their…

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, recently proposed a new scaling solution called Plasma Cash. He made a rare appearance to speak at the Ethereum Community Conference in Paris, held on March 9, 2018. Plasma Cash is an extension of…

The overwhelming popularity of cryptokitties developed into an unexpected problem; numerous operations in the game (20 percent of the total volume on the Ethereum network) have greatly decreased transaction speed, sometimes even making them outright impossible. While this may seem…

“If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.”— Isaac Newton, 1675 On December 6, 2017, Lightning Developers, a medium.com publisher representing the three main parties (ACINQ, Blockstream, and Lightning Labs) that together are building…

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, has spoken out against the initial coin offering (ICO) of the Raiden Network and vowed to use his advisor shares in other ICOs only to fund open-source infrastructures and non-profit projects. “I’m announcing that…

Christoph Jentzsch, co-founder of Slock.it and one of the leading Ethereum developers, spoke to BTCMANAGER about lessons from the DAO hack, the ICO hype and Ethereum’s plans to scale. Slock.it is a startup from Mittweida, a small town in Saxony,…

With SegWit2x we’ll soon experience the activation of SegWit. Block size will be replaced by block weight, transactions capacity will be increased, and fees will fall. But how exactly and to what scope is not an easy question. In recent…

The problem is well known for Bitcoin; there are more transactions than miners can confirm. Now the shortage has reached Ethereum. Especially after popular ICOs, like Status’, the transaction volume is far beyond the network’s capacity. This problem could be…