Viacoin Team Implements Smart Contract Protocol Built on Altcoin Block Chain
The first decentralized smart contracts protocol built on top of an altcoin block chain is now live. ClearingHouse, a descendent of Counterparty, was created by the team behind viacoin and has been in active development since the alt first launched last month. The team has attracted top talent in the bitcoin space, most notably Bitcoin Core developer and Coinkite advisor Peter Todd who has been hired to work on his Tree Chains concept. On 11th August, the viacoin development team announced new details regarding ClearingHouse's internal currency, XCH, and information on how users can....
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Bitcoin Core developer and current Coinkite advisor Peter Todd has been hired by the Viacoin development team to work on a Bitcoin 2.0 technology concept. Todd will serve as chief scientist and advisor on both the Viacoin core project and the decentralized smart contract platform ClearingHouse, which is being developed in tandem with Viacoin. The primary focus of his work will be treechains, a concept created by Todd that allows for block chain scalability and side-chain coordination. Furthermore, treechains promote a greater degree of mining decentralization - a key issue facing the....
The Viacoin price is languishing. Viacoin is a crypto 2.0 platform built on an independent blockchain. Viacoin had a very successful presale, and the Viacoin price soared after the coin hired Bitcoin developer Peter Todd to assist with the project. However, the Viacoin price has endured a steady decline for the past month. CCN examines this altcoin price decline. Also Read: Bitcoin 2.0 Will be a Very Big Deal. Viacoin Price Sliding in the Wrong Direction. October has not been a pleasant month for Viacoin investors. After Viacoin obtained a $1 million market cap just days after its official....
Welcome to the CCN weekly altcoin news update, where we profile newsworthy altcoin stories that have flown under the radar. This week's update includes an analysis of the Stellar price's early volatility, information about Darkcoin's latest update to DarkSend, its anonymous transaction protocol, and Viacoin's smart-contract ClearingHouse announcement and presale. Stellar Price Volatility. Stellar, the new Ripple-esque payment protocol from Mt. Gox and Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb, has quickly gained adoption due to the project's aggressive distribution strategy, which includes giving away....
Viacoin is today's Random Coin of the Day. It has massive attention putting it on seven currency-exchanges including Cryptsy with a total market capitalization of over $1M and it only launched a few days ago! The coin allows developers to build new types of services with its block-chain. It's not just a currency. Bitcoin often plays "whack a mole" with what it considers to be "blockchain SPAM" whenever someone tries to use the Bitcoin blockchain for anything other than the Bitcoin currency. Viacoin's ClearingHouse protocol "allows the building of fully decentralized exchanges, issuing of....