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Cryptocurrencies

From Bitcoin to Litecoin, here’s a look at the biggest and most innovative cryptocurrencies and how they work

What is Bitcoin Core?

The Bitcoin community consists of members that support the Bitcoin network by hosting a version of the blockchain and its entire history of transactions on their computers, which are called nodes.

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What is a beacon chain?

The Beacon Chain is one of the key upgrades at the heart of the new Consensus Layer and is responsible for managing the new proof of stake blockchain protocol.

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What is Bitcoin Classic?

Bitcoin Classic was a proposed hard fork from Bitcoin Core that planned to increase Bitcoin’s block sizes from 1MB to 2MB to help the network scale. Although it failed to take off and gather support from the Bitcoin developer community,…

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What is Bitcoin Unlimited?

Bitcoin Unlimited was a proposed upgrade for Bitcoin block size limits which was a hard fork from Bitcoin Core. With Bitcoin’s block sizes limited to 1MB, some community developers were concerned about how the network would cope as more users…

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Could Bitcoin be banned?

The quick answer is not really, as it would be very tricky to shut down the entire decentralised Bitcoin blockchain that lives on thousands of computers across the world. Bitcoin is borderless and there’s no central authority that can be…

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What is a Dapp?

Decentralised applications (Dapps) are just like the applications you use everyday on your smartphone. However, in the context of cryptocurrencies, instead of a mobile phone, these Dapps run on a blockchain network in a public, open-source and decentralised environment. 

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