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Grandmas On Lightning

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Time Stamp: August 6, 2020 1:33 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Is Bitcoin Too Hard To Understand? I’ve spent a huge part of the last three years explaining Bitcoin to general audiences and the most common form of resistance I encounter is: “Bitcoin is too complicated. The masses will never understand it.” It’s a fair argument. Bitcoin is complicated and if you want to reach a competent understanding of the big picture then, at a minimum, you’d better get ready to learn about peer-to-peer networks, cryptography and the history of money. It’s for this reason that I find it bizarre when

Why Klaytn and Link Will Catalyze Blockchain Adoption in Asia

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Time Stamp: August 4, 2020 12:23 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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In the last two years, popular messaging giants in Asia and Europe have announced plans to launch a blockchain-powered cryptocurrency. In Asia, Kakao’s Klaytn and Line’s Link platform have launched and are quickly gaining momentum, but Facebook and Telegram’s cryptocurrencies have not fared so well. Messaging Giants Pushing Blockchain Adoption As it stands, Kakao is by far the most dominant mobile platform in Korea with a market share of 97% in the country. Kakao subsidiary Ground X began development of Klaytn back in 2019, after raising $90 million in both

Factom Creditor Refuses Funding Request, Forced Into Liquidation

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Time Stamp: April 6, 2020 5:30 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Factom, a blockchain company, has failed to secure further funding to sustain itself. As a result, the company has now been forced to begin the process of liquidation.Liquidation After Failure To Get More FundingThrough a notice published on the 2nd of April, 2020, FastForward, the largest investor within the company, announced the “dissolution event” to the public. Through the statement, FastForward explained that the Factom directors within the 31st of March board meeting had come to a conclusion. This conclusion was that, due to the lack of future funding being

Factom Facing Liquidation After Creditor Refuses Request for Funding

Source Node: https://cointelegraph.com/news/factom-facing-liquidation-after-creditor-refuses-request-for-funding
Time Stamp: April 6, 2020 2:05 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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After failing to source additional funding, blockchain company Factom has begun the process of being liquidated. In an April 2 notice to investors, Factom’s largest investor FastForward announced the “dissolution event”: "The Company has been notified by the directors of Factom that in a board meeting on 31 March 2020 they concluded that, in the absence of further funding, they now needed to begin the process of assignment of assets for the benefit of creditors.”Citing their failure to secure additional funding, FastForward declared Factom would now enter receivership. As Factom’s largest creditor,

Staking, Consensus and the Pursuit of Decentralization

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Time Stamp: April 4, 2020 3:02 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Oh, the wonders of decentralized consensus — that dream of permissionless blockchains to be censorship-resistant, trustless, collaborative and egalitarian for a potentially global community of users. While lofty in ideals, consensus is foundational for each crypto network, which must agree upon that most basic question of who decides what on the network.Decentralized consensus in the form of a proof-of-work mechanism was at the core of Satoshi Nakamoto’s innovation when creating Bitcoin — all additional protocol elements stem from PoW’s ability to reach consensus regarding the digital ledger through the computational work

Bitcoin Codebase Preserved for 1,000 Years in Archive Under Arctic Ice

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 6:55 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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A snapshot of the Bitcoin codebase will be encoded onto film reels and stored for a thousand years under the arctic ice in Svalbard, Norway. The move is part of the GitHub Archive Program, with a mission to preserve open-source software, for future generations to learn about the culture of today.GitHub has partnered with institutions such as the Software Heritage Foundation, Arctic World Archive, and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library to ensure the long-term preservation of code, which could otherwise be abandoned, forgotten or lost.With the ephemeral nature of much of