How Bitcoin Makes Transactions Cheaper
There are many reasons to be excited about bitcoin: it could enable totally new business and technology models; it resembles the internet in the early '90s in the sense that it is a network that no-one owns and everyone can contribute to; it could revolutionise legal concepts of ownership; it could disrupt the payments industry; it could even become a tax haven. It could also flop. In an earlier post, I described the thinking behind my first angel investment in the digital currency space: CoinDesk. In this post, I discuss what first got me excited about bitcoin - the solution to the....
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One of the largest cryptocurrency mixing protocols, Tornado.cash, has announced the project will deploy on the L2 (layer 2) Ethereum platform Arbitrum One. The creators of the Ethereum-based mixing application explain that settling on Arbitrum will allow Tornado.cash users to benefit from cheaper transactions.
Tornado.cash to Deploy on Arbitrum – ‘Cheaper Transactions Being the Biggest Comparative Advantage’
On November 29, the team behind the ethereum mixing application Tornado.cash revealed the project plans to deploy on the Arbitrum One network. The news....
Once fully deployed, users will be able to make private transactions through the popular Tornado Cash mixer on the Arbitrum layer two network. Tornado Cash is about to get a scaling boost as the privacy protocol prepares for deployment on the Ethereum layer two network Arbitrum. Tornado Cash’s smart contracts are ready to roll on thArbitrum Layer 2 scaling network following contributions from the community to ensure the stability of the protocol.The Nov. 29 announcement explained that deploying on Arbitrum will “allow users to take advantage of all the benefits a Layer 2 can offer, with....
Stanford professor David Mazières thinks he has a faster, more flexible and more secure alternative to Bitcoin, MIT Technology Review reports. Two independent reviewers, from Stanford and Cornell universities, agree that the new technology could make digital payments and other transactions cheaper, safer and easier. Alternative blockchains are often dismissed as worthless "me-too" copycats or scamcoins, which, unfortunately, has some element of truth. But Mazières' approach deserves a place among the serious alternatives to Bitcoin that have been proposed, alongside Ethereum and Ripple.....
Video games and Bitcoin, two most fascinating segments, have now come together to delight the users! Kinguin, which prides itself in being called the place where a video game lover can choose from thousands of games, has now joined hands with BitPay to allow the users to pay for them in Bitcoin. In a blog post announcement the video game company described the decision as the choice to pay for video games "any way you like from now on, and also with Bitcoin.'. Kinguin also vouched for the Bitcoin calling it secure and cheaper and stated that the level of identity protection makes Bitcoin....
Using 1inch’s new aggregator saves gas over using Uniswap or other DEXs directly. The 1inch team has released the third iteration of its Aggregation Protocol, a tool that routes trade orders across all decentralized exchanges on Ethereum and, as of recently, Binance Smart Chain.The Aggregation Protocol calculates the most profitable trade for a given token and size of the order, potentially splitting a large order into several chunks across several decentralized exchanges. Previously, the tool was mostly useful for wealthy traders for whom slippage was an important factor when trading in....