Reading Time: 4 minutesHow to apply Blockchain in medicine? It is a fact that diseases are on the rise, including infectious and non-infectious diseases. However, technology plays a significant role in the fight against them. Some chances of employing technology like blockchain in medicine will further improve data security, transaction, billing, and exchange, among other areas of interest. […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt wasn’t the best start to the year for Bitcoin, or for any commodity for that matter. With the Covid-19 pandemic and global economic chaos, Q1 of 2020 saw Bitcoin close with -10% returns (S&P 500 was down -19% to put things in perspective), but that wasn’t the case for every cryptocurrency. Let’s explore the […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is a sponsored post written by Anna with ECOS The Covid-19 epidemic is probably one of the most devastating disasters of the last decades. The pandemic has not yet reached the maximum of its expansion, however, nowadays it is absolutely clear that its consequences for the economy will be absolutely dramatic. It has caused […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes2019 was a hard year for Ripple – there’s no denying that. In November 2019, Ripple was down a whopping 28% from the start of the year (according to data from CoinMarketCap), but it’s currently sitting with a market cap of around $10 billion (trailing behind only Bitcoin and Ethereum). Still, things are likely going […]
Digital Assets, Ecosystems, Scaling
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis article is originally published in Albaron Ventures. Grade school might tell you anything is possible. Complete and total decentralization, however, is not– at least sustainable. The premise that decentralization is impossible hinges on the fact that decentralization “experiments” such as Bitcoin have approached towards degrees of centralization. For example, Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work (PoW) mechanism relies […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesEveryone is new to Bitcoin at some point – there’s no shame in it. Still, sometimes the cryptocurrency universe can feel super overwhelming. There’s so much information out there that it becomes difficult to streamline things into the “need to know” category. New to Bitcoin and feel like you’re floundering a bit? Here are the […]
Bitcoin, Digital Assets, Ethereum, Infrastructure
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is a common misconception about cryptocurrency. Many think that whoever controls the mining power, controls the network. Therefore, China can shut Bitcoin down. That is false. Although miners have influence on the network, they do not control it. No single entity controls a blockchain-based network that is decentralized and distributed by definition, and miners […]
Diem, Ecosystems, Infrastructure, Libra, Stablecoins
Reading Time: 3 minutesLibra coin is a permissioned blockchain and cryptocurrency founded by Facebook. The coin has yet to be launched, and only experimental code has been released so far. When the Libra cryptocurrency was announced in June 2019, 28 companies signed up to be part of The Libra Association. Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase teamed up to […]
Ecosystems, Ethereum, Infrastructure
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith Istanbul live, there’s a lot happening in the Ethereum community right now. Istanbul is the last fork in the series of updates taking place on the Ethereum blockchain, which are making way for Ethereum Serenity. So, let’s take a look at what to expect from Ethereum 2.0, and how it’ll change the network. Ethereum […]
Bitcoin, Digital Assets, Regulation
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis article is originally published in Albaron Ventures. As Bitcoin and other digital assets continue to grow in adoption and popularity, a common topic for discussion is whether the U.S. government, or any government for that matter, can exert control of its use. There are two core issues that lay the foundation of the Bitcoin […]
