But while the bitcoin industry sees a business opportunity
in alternative blockchains, the media has perhaps been slow to adapt.
CoinDesk explores why bitcoin industry businesses are increasingly demonstrating an interest
in the alternative blockchain platform Ethereum.
In India, there has been very little interest
in alternative blockchain assets due to it being difficult to convert digital assets into bitcoin and INR.
Not exact matches
«
Blockchain in cross-border payments is not about finding an
alternative to SWIFT,» says Taylor.
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blockchain technology, Telegram Open Network (TON) is being billed as the next «Visa / MasterCard
alternative for a new decentralized economy,» the company said
in a description of its plans, as reported by WSJ.
As the corporate wrote
in its weblog: «Customer polls last year revealed the popularity of Litecoin as a rival
alternative crypto to Bitcoin... It's faster than Bitcoin, has lower
blockchain fees and may become a global payment option available on dozens of big brand websites
in coming months.»
For those not familiar with the company, Blockstream's remit revolves around sidechains;
alternative blockchains that are able to interact both ways with the bitcoin
blockchain, and
in doing so, allow interoperability between the bitcoin
blockchain and networks of other sidechains.
Described as a mix between the crowdfunding of Kickstarter and issuing shares on a stock market, they are increasingly used to fund companies
in the fast - growing world of
blockchains, as an
alternative to traditional fundraising routes.
Byrne made history again
in Dec, 2016, when Overstock.com issued the first shares of a public company ever traded on an
alternative trading system (ATS) utilizing the
blockchain's distributed ledger technology.
FFCON (Fintech and Funding Conference) is an annual conference hosted by NCFA Canada
in its fourth year, with an educational objective that brings together professionals and innovators
in blockchain, cryptocurrency, and
alternative investing.
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The solution,
in brief, involved undoing the hack by creating an
alternative version of the
blockchain on which the hack never happened — what is known as a «hard fork».
TD Bank, one of the Canada's most influential and biggest banks plans as an
alternative to use
blockchain technology
in order to track digital assets.
To date, the platform has conducted four hard forks, with only one resulting
in the creation of an
alternative blockchain, ethereum classic.
They'll be working on an
alternative to Bitcoin's proofs of work, which require CPUs and GPUs that drain huge amounts of electricity
in order to verify the
blockchain.
This led to a similar rise
in the price of
alternative blockchain tokens, dubbed «altcoins.»
Assia indicated that such use cases,
in his opinion, are key to bitcoin gaining long - term value, arguing that any
alternative use of the bitcoin
blockchain,
in turn, makes it more valuable.
The
blockchain subsidiary of online retailer Overstock is teaming up with RenGen and Argon Group to launch an SEC - compliant
Alternative Trading System (ATS) for trading digital coins issued
in initial coin offerings (ICOs).
Coalichain aims to offer an
alternative to existing state - run democratic structures through the use of decentralized
blockchain technology and Web 3.0 features, tackling some of the biggest problems
in governance today including
Bitcoin Classic, an attempt to implement an
alternative version of the Bitcoin protocol with a higher block size limit, has been one of the biggest stories
in the
blockchain space over the past few months, and one of the key areas of...
Bitcoin
Alternatives: Sidechains and layer - 2 protocols, such as the Lightning Network, are Bitcoin's main
alternatives to Dogecoin and Litecoin at least
in terms of low - security, cheap
alternatives to the Bitcoin
blockchain.
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As a provider of software that allows
alternative currencies to be launched on the bitcoin
blockchain, Colu is perhaps
in a unique position when it comes to the possibility of a fork.
Last summer, the ethereum
blockchain experienced a controversial hard fork, a development that resulted
in a minority of users creating the
alternative ethereum classic
blockchain.
Companies within both the technology and financial sector are adopting
blockchain in a bid to create an
alternative to Bitcoin.
Of note is one of the more interesting claims
in the paper, one that alleges the approach provides a better
alternative to other private
blockchains, at least for some use cases.
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This small, but growing contingent of the ethereum community has continued to maintain a
blockchain with the
alternative account history (Ethereum Classic), one
in which a copy of the original funds are still under control of the anonymous person who executed the attack on The DAO.
As a huge array of startup firms are slowly stumbling upon the goodness of
blockchain technology and implementing the same
in their energy sector, the need for making use of
alternative energy sources is increasingly being felt.
Albert Wenger, a partner at Union Square Ventures has confirmed he'll be looking to fund a
blockchain - powered blogging platform through the project, and early Twitter investor, Naval Ravikant is interested
in funding a
blockchain alternative to the popular micro-blogging site.
That meteoric rise is thanks to Brian Armstrong, Coinbase's CEO, who has ridden the passion for
alternative currencies to build a company that this year was valued
in a new financing round at $ 1.6 billion — the first
blockchain - related company to reach unicorn status.
IOTA poses a radical
alternative to orthodox
blockchain technology; and as the Internet of Things expands, the MIOTA coin will invariably rise
in popularity.
The general concept first appeared
in a much weaker form as «merged mining», a mechanism
in which
alternative currency miners publish pointers to their blocks
in the Bitcoin
blockchain to mitigate the threat of 51 % attacks.
This,
in turn, means that the block - size limit needs to increase
in order for more transactions to fit on Bitcoin's
blockchain, for fees to remain low, and without having to rely on complicated and far - off
alternative solutions.
Tether hopes to grow to form the backbone of government - backed cryptocurrencies, and the leader
in blockchain - based
alternatives
Governments accepting cryptocurrencies as
alternatives to fiat currency reinforce our belief
in blockchain and ultimately Bitcoin.
Called Bitcoin - NG (the «NG» is short for «next generation»), the proposal is envisioned as a solution to «inherent problems»
in blockchain design, both
in bitcoin and
alternative distributed ledgers such as Ethereum.
Currently, through partnerships like R3 CEV, some of the largest banks
in the world are researching
blockchain technology,
in particular with Ethereum, an
alternative blockchain from Bitcoin.
There, Kik's head of
blockchain engineering and security, Leonid Beder, said the firm was interested
in «kin» token buyers» views on possible
alternative blockchains that could replace ethereum.
In his Telegram message, Beder wrote that neither networks like Raiden nor
alternative blockchains like EOS are ready for kin, but he added, «Stellar is indeed one of the directions we're investigating.»
From its invention for the bitcoin
blockchain to its implementation
in new
alternatives that take the idea
in unintended directions, this expansion has had a dramatic effect on the industry.
In fact, the dominant mood may be the mismatch between interest and investment as evidenced by a continued lag in enterprise and alternative blockchain investmen
In fact, the dominant mood may be the mismatch between interest and investment as evidenced by a continued lag
in enterprise and alternative blockchain investmen
in enterprise and
alternative blockchain investment.
In this article, Lewis attempts to break down some of the more misunderstood questions circulating among institutions seeking to adapt distributed
blockchain tech for
alternative uses.
At the moment, ADAMANT can be considered a pioneer
in this direction, since it is the only messenger that works entirely on the
blockchain, unlike
alternative messengers, which use
blockchain only partially for any specific purpose.
Thus, bitcoin cash was created — an
alternative to bitcoin which managed to work on the
blockchain tech used
in bitcoin transaction.
But rather than simply set up shop and carry on, Singular DTV went so far as to launch an
alternative business model that allows it to issue units of
blockchain - based code (sometimes known as an «initial coin offering» due to its similarities with a public issuance) to users
in an attempt to incentivize early adopters.
Meanwhile, the very
blockchain startups that support bitcoin, such as
alternative lenders, encourage cryptocurrency owners to hold their bitcoin, use it as collateral and take loans
in fiat money.
Altcoin, the abbreviation for
alternative coin, or alternate coin, or all
blockchain projects and related currency that exist
in addition to Bitcoin.
In this way, users are offered an
alternative app store for decentralized, platform independent,
blockchain applications.