Cryptocurrencies

Every cryptocurrency transaction is recorded on a blockchain, but when exactly these transactions are recorded depends whether transactions happen on-chain or off-chain.

A Bitcoin flash crash is when the price of Bitcoin drops dramatically and then returns to its previous levels very quickly. Flash crashes are not unique to Bitcoin and can happen for other cryptocurrencies, as well as stocks.

Ethereum Classic is the original version of the Ethereum blockchain with ETC as its native token.

Using the Bitcoin blockchain, anyone can view every transaction that has ever taken place on the network.

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.

Gas is the fuel that allows the Ethereum blockchain to operate. Users pay gas fees for services on the network.

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.

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,…

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…

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…

Chainlink and Bitcoin are two very different cryptocurrencies. Let’s explore these differences and their similarities in more detail.

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.