Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

A blockchain, in its essence, provides a digital record of transactions. At present, this most often pertains to transaction records for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC). The database of records, ...

Charles Hoskinson’s new block explorer has made Bitcoin into a planet. Seriously. The latest project from Hoskinson’s engineering company, IOHK, dubbed Symphony 2.0, portrays Bitcoin’s mempool “as a ...

The genesis block kickstarts a blockchain by establishing the network, adhering to consensus rules and linking all future blocks back to the origination point. In proof-of-work (PoW) chains, the ...

A blockchain is a distributed database that is shared among the nodes of a computer network. This database records all the transactions that occur on this network. An important distinction between a ...

Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies are rapidly expanding throughout the world – and with that rapid expansion has come a growing interest in IP protection for blockchain and cryptocurrency ...

What is blockchain technology? Technically precise definitions found on Google define it as “a distributed, decentralized, public ledger.” But, what does that mean? In its most basic and general form, ...

If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent the last decade hearing about blockchain technology and all the ways it’ll change the world. And at some point, you’ve probably wondered, “Hey… what the heck ...