SegWit2x - What It Was, How It Worked along with Concerns
SegWit2x was a 2017 proposal for a hard fork that would have raised the Bitcoin block size limit from one megabyte to two megabytes. The intent was to raise the number of transactions that fit into each block and to shorten confirmation times. The proposal never activated. A hard fork introduces rules that reject blocks […]
Sohn Investment Conference 2018: Hedge Fund Titans Give Hot Tips
The twenty third Sohn Investment Conference convened in New York on 23 April 2018. Delegates filled the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. Roughly three thousand investors, analysts, journalists along with students occupied every seat. Each speaker received ten minutes to present a single long or short idea. Microphones on the podium fed a […]
ERC-20 Tokens on the Ethereum Network
ERC-20 denotes the technical specification that governs every fungible token issued on the Ethereum blockchain. A token qualifies as fungible when any single unit substitutes for another unit of the same type. By contrast, the ERC-721 specification produces non fungible tokens that never trade one-for-one. The specification equips developers with a uniform set of smart […]
Bitcoin and Altcoins - Two Distinct Crypto Bubbles
Digital currency market capitalisation surpassed seven hundred billion dollars this week. Traders rushed toward Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and lesser-known tokens to capture sudden price surges. Senior figures at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan but also Deutsche Bank dismissed the entire asset class as a speculative mania. ShapeShift chief executive Erik Voorhees, a vocal cryptocurrency advocate since 2012, […]