Cryptocurrencies

Litecoin halvings take place every four years and decrease miner rewards by half. This means there is less Litecoin entering circulation over time to prevent inflation.

SegWit2x was a proposal for upgrading Bitcoin block sizes. It was never implemented due to the Bitcoin developer community failing to reach a consensus on it. SegWit2x was a follow up to the SegWit, which reorganised how verification signatures were…

In 2017, university academics came up with the idea of Chainlink as a way to connect smart contracts on the blockchain with data from the outside world.

It’s a tricky business trying to bundle together the factors that determine the value of something. Investors often look to the inherent value, or the underlying value in a company when deciding which stock to buy, while commodities such as…

Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s creator(s), designed Bitcoin in such a way that the rate at which new Bitcoin is created is halved every four years. This will continue to happen until there are 21 million Bitcoin in circulation, after which no more coins will see the light of day. Bitcoin is expected to reach its hard limit in the year 2140

Where did Bitcoin come from? Who created it and why? What is its purpose? Could one person have really created it? These are common questions within the cryptocurrency community.

Ethereum and Bitcoin are both cryptocurrencies but they are fundamentally different in their use cases.

Bitcoin Cash came from a desire to improve Bitcoin as a medium of exchange, rather than an investment medium. Following the Bitcoin community’s lack of consensus surrounding Bitcoin’s scalability, the blockchain split, resulting in the creation of Bitcoin Cash. 2017 spiked…

Bitcoin was developed as a digital decentralised currency with the aim of paying for goods and services. XRP, on the other hand, was created for banks and payment networks as a means of payment settlement, a money transfer system, and…

XRP is a global payment settlement system that aims to be a faster and less costly alternative than traditional payment platforms.

Litecoin is a cryptocurrency designed to provide instant, secure and low-cost payments.

As mentioned in an earlier section, one can think of Bitcoin as one big global ledger system that records transactions (or ‘moving money’) between one person to another. Whenever Bitcoin transactions are processed on the Bitcoin network – that means…