A sidechain is a blockchain you can move bitcoins into and back from, which may have different abilities than the bitcoin blockchain. The lightning network is a caching layer for bitcoin, which allows instant sending and failover to the normal bitcoin network if something goes wrong. Rusty Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate, known for his work

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Google uses automated programs called spiders, or crawlers, to index and rank web pages. Then, when a user searches for something, it uses a special algorithm to determine the order of results to display (howstuffworks). This process, of course, applies to web pages on the internet. There are 2 major projects, worked on by the

Cloud Blockchains: The Google of Blockchain with Nader Dabit

Domain names are the address of your website that people type into the browser URL bar. Once purchased, a domain name is stored on your behalf by custodians like Google domains. Blockchain domains, on the other hand, are similar to regular domain names except they are stored and controlled in your cryptocurrency wallet. The company

Unstoppable Domains: Blockchain Domains with Matthew Gould

Blockchain protocols like Bitcoin and Ethereum have changed the cyber world dramatically in the last decade. They’ve created communities of like-minded developers, generated new financial markets, and popularized “decentralization” in computer networks. However, they require large resources to operate which makes scaling difficult and transactions expensive. Hedera is a decentralized public network that takes the

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Complete information games are games where every player has information about the game sequence, strategies, and payoffs throughout gameplay. Playing chess, for example, relies on knowing the location of every piece everywhere on the board. In an incomplete information game like Minecraft, you continually gain new information during gameplay. Until very recently, incomplete information was

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