On October 31, 2008, a still-anonymous individual (or group of individuals) going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper for the first time, and proposed the idea of what the paper called a “peer-to-peer digital cash system”. The paper named this new digital currency Bitcoin, and explained how the system would work. It […]
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Bitcoin Cash Turns 1
One year ago yesterday, on August 1st of 2017, after a years-long debate about how best to scale the Bitcoin blockchain to allow the network to process a greater number of transactions, a sizable group of users who were unhappy with the idea of using SegWit and the Lightning Network to create a “layer 2” […]
Could A Blockchain Improve Election Security?
Securing the data collected during elections and making sure votes are accurately counted has been a big topic lately. The hanging chads of 2000 left many people feeling that a faster, more efficient and accurate method for counting votes was needed- and electronic voting machines started appearing more frequently at elections that followed. These have […]