Hey everyone, we're starting a short series of articles about the history of bitcoin and the events that helped mold it into what it is today. We will take a look at how it started and how it evolved over time. I'm sure we won't be able to cover every single event, so if you…

Since Bitcoin was released and started gaining popularity, the market was filled with reports referring to how the price of traditional currencies could actually have an impact on the value of bitcoin. Such examples of bitcoin volatility being influenced by the changes in value of fiat have been observed in the past, and the Chinese…

The way the developers like to explain what is Zcash is through an anecdote comparing Bitcoin to http and Zcash to https. This makes a lot of sense, since Bitcoin, unlike Zcash is completely transparent. Zcash in contrast allows users to hide sender, receiver and value information of transaction. The way it does this is…

Ethereum has been around for a while, and during this period of time, it has managed to grow and change the world of smart contracts tremendously. All of this wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Ether, which is basically a fuel, or form of payment, needed to operate the distributed application platform known…

While Bitcoin's price is quite erratic indeed, the coin does occasionally go down and up- and it seems that today is one of the days where it is going to go up. After a long period of stagnating and slowly falling prices, bitcoin seems to have regained its groove and has quickly ascended to the high…

A few months ago, due to growing unrest because of the DAO attack, the Ethereum team made a compromise by creating a hard fork, one with the DAO hacker's Ethereum on it, and the other without, and thus creating Ethereum and Ethereum Classic, with the latter holding the hacker's tokens. While most of the Ethereum community…

The Lightning Network is a payment system, conceived by Joseph Poon and Tadge Dryja about a year and a half ago. It uses the security of the Bitcoin network, to facilitate transactions off-chain between users at minimal expense. This payment system is one of the most expected innovations that can is going to be used…

As we approach the release date for the SEGWIT (Segregated Witness) update to the blockchain, we were pleased to see a complete update from the BitcoinCore team about how this update will affect the network, what will change and where are we going to proceed in the future. For those of you who don't know…

During the last couple of years, Bitcoin has managed to evolve from a simple digital currency, to a powerful trading mechanism that anyone who is looking for a way to make some extra money can employ. While starting to trade digital currencies may seem scary at first, the truth is that it is quite easy,…

During the last couple of years, Bitcoin has managed to grow considerably, and this is totally understandable given the large number of start-ups and investments made in this niche. However, Bitcoin's underlying network is also quickly gaining ground. For those who do not know,  the blockchain represents a ledger consisting of all legitimate transactions that have…