CoinDesk Is Spinning Up an Ethereum 2.0 Node. Here’s How to Follow Our Journey

The easiest way to set up and run a Lightning Network node is with an out-of-the-box solution. The majority of full Bitcoin node products also run Lightning clients and they have condensed all of the essentials for running a node into small boxes — you just need to plug them in and follow prompts. ...

Leveraging the Lightning Network for branding? Is that even possible? Voltage, a bitcoin infrastructure provider, makes a great case for it. Granted, their “Identity and brand on the Lightning Network” article is in itself a branding effort by the company. That doesn’t mean the information it contains is invalid, though. In fact, they probably hit the nail on the head with this one. Related Reading | Lightning Speed: What’s The Lightning Development Initiative? The company’s CEO, Graham Krizek, is the piece’s author. “One of the interesting things about the Lightning Network is that....

Rubycoin Price Technical Analysis. Rubycoin price is in the middle of a correction but it looks like the pullback is already over, as the 50% Fibonacci retracement level is holding as strong resistance. This retracement level lines up with a former support level, making it an area of interest and likely resistance. Rubycoin price has made a sharp selloff recently and might be done with its retracement from the move, allowing sellers to regain control. Spinning top at resistance? A spinning top reversal candlestick has formed on the latest pullback, hinting that price could turn a corner. A....

Bitcoin Core Developer Jeff Garzik plans to use cubesats as full Bitcoin nodes. Read the original story on Coindesk. Bitcoin Core Developer Jeff Garzik has plans in motion to launch several small cube satellites [cubesat] into space. These satellites would serve as a full node for the Bitcoin network, presumably as an "honest source" of the Bitcoin blockchain. All that is needed to stop a Sybill attack is one honest node, and this node in space would be that node. This cubesat node would be in orbit and would broadcast a verified blockchain to any node that will connect with it.....

Ethereum has been on the journey to proof of stake for quite a while now. The journey has been characterized by delays which the founder has attributed to people’s problems rather than technical problems but it is finally back on track. To properly test how the network would perform when the mainnet begins operating in […]