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Ethereum might still be the number one blockchain for smart contracts, but dozens of competing networks have been gaining ground. Lots of these alternative chains have been quite vocal about their status as an “Ethereum killer”, while others have stayed quiet, keeping their heads down and focusing on growth rather
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In recent months, the PoW consensus mechanism has received scrutiny by lawmakers globally for its energy consumption. Most recently, the U.S. held a congressional hearing to discuss the energy consumption related to the PoW. Meanwhile, the EU markets regulator called for a ban on the validation system, citing its energy
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Kintsugi is a “longer-lived, public testnet” that will allow application developers and users to become familiar with a post-merge Ethereum environment. Heavy usage of the test network will allow clients and Ethereum developers to find any potential issues and further mitigate issues during mainnet’s impending Merge. Original Source
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“Although client development and UX continue to be refined, we encourage the community to start using Kintsugi to familiarize themselves with Ethereum in a post-merge context,” Beiko said. “For application developers, as previously explained, not much will change. Tooling which only interacts with either the consensus or execution layer is
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Cointelegraph is following the development of an entirely new blockchain from inception to mainnet and beyond through its series Inside the Blockchain Developer’s Mind. In previous parts, Andrew Levine of Koinos Group discussed some of the challenges the team has faced since identifying the key issues they intend to solve
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On Friday, Electric Coin Company (ECC), the developers behind the privacy-centric crypto-asset zcash, revealed the network plans to transition to proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus. ECC also revealed the team plans to launch an official ECC wallet, as well as bolster the network’s cross-chain interoperability. Zcash to Change From PoW to PoS The Zcash
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Zcash (ZEC) surged by nearly 20% in the past 24 hours, helped by the euphoria surrounding its core protocol's decisive transition from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS).The ZEC price logged an intraday high at $188.80 on Binance after rising two days in a row by more than 27%. The cryptocurrency's
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Unfortunately, getting rid of miners does not get rid of MEV, and users of the proof-of-stake network will still be subject to the whims of transaction ordering by those looking to extract value from liquidations, frontrunning and arbitrage. Eth1 clients will still be responsible for the creation of blocks, much
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Zcash (ZEC) may be the next cryptocurrency to move from proof-of-work (PoW) to the proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus algorithm. The team says the benefits of PoS far outweigh that of PoW and a transition to the former would better support the project’s primary objective of providing economic and social freedom to
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China’s ambitious national blockchain infrastructure initiative, Blockchain Service Network (BSN) will add Casper Network, a proof-of-stake blockchain into both its international and China portals for developers after Casper’s mainnet launch in Q1 2020, CasperLab’s chief executive said today. BSN is one of few government-led and government-owned blockchain networks in the world
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