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The Many Facts Pointing to Cypherpunk Len Sassaman Being Satoshi Nakamoto

5.3.2021
Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, has always been a mysterious character and a great number of sleuths have made it their mission to discover the inventor’s identity. One particular theory was published this month which attempts to tether the well known and now deceased, Len Sassaman...

What Is Cryptocurrency?

10.2.2021
Cryptocurrency also termed as Digital or Virtual currency is considered as a form of asset and the currency is designed to work as an exchange medium. Crytpocurrency uses strong cryptography to secure the financial transactions. All these cryptocurrencies work on the … Continued The post What...

The Future of Cryptographic Security in the Age of Quantum

6.1.2021
How blockchain technology can thrive in an age of quantum computing

Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin White Paper: A 12-Year Old Summary of Robust Unstructured Simplicity

1.11.2020
Cryptocurrency supporters all around the world are celebrating the fact that today is the 12th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper, a summary of the invention created by the pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin’s inventor published the paper on metzdowd.com’s Cryptography...

Did Satoshi choose to publish Bitcoin's whitepaper on Halloween as another Easter egg?

31.10.2020
For all we don't know about Satoshi, we can tell he loved a touch of theatricality

This blockchain only needs 22Kb of data to be verified

19.10.2020
Mina applies zk-SNARKs to Cardano's Ouroboros consensus to achieve scalability and decentralization

One of Hal Finney's lost contributions to Bitcoin Core to be 'resurrected'

28.9.2020
While Hal Finney may no longer be with us, one of his proposals from 2011 may soon find its way to Bitcoin thanks to an expired patent

CIA’s New Research Lab to Study Blockchain

21.9.2020
CIA Labs will give officers an outlet to patent and profit from their tech inventions

Privacy Options Underutilized in Cryptocurrency Usage: Report

4.9.2020
Advances in cryptography have not met with user enthusiasm, suggesting a disconnect between the cryptocurrency community and its cypherpunk ancestors. According to Coin Metrics, transactions of privacy-focused cryptocurrencies zcash (ZEC), monero (XMR), and grin only add up to 6% of bitcoin’s...

Chainlink acquires a privacy-preserving oracle protocol from Cornell University

29.8.2020
One of the men who coined the term "proof-of-work" to join as chief scientist

Remembering Hal Finney's contributions to Blockchain and beyond

28.8.2020
Adam Back recalls Hal as a constructive personality who never engaged in squabbles

Ashton Kutcher’s Terrible Artwork Lives on as NFT After Incineration

19.8.2020
Celebrity Ashton Kutcher has digitized and incarcerated a drawing that will be auctioned on NFT marketplace Cryptograph to support ecological charities

How a Decentralized Randomness Beacon Could Boost Cryptographic Security

11.8.2020
Filecoin will be the first protocol to use this production-ready version of drand to create decentralized, verifiable randomness for “leader selection.”

Ignorance and Greed Sustain Cryptocurrency Scams in Nigeria

28.7.2020
Nigeria is not only Africa’s biggest cryptocurrency market but is also a leading adopter of digital currencies globally. Official figures show the country is well ahead of fellow African countries. Citizens of the West African state use cryptocurrencies for cross border payments as well...