It used to be that bitcoin mining was a community affair, but the process of confirming bitcoin transactions now requires an immense amount of hashing power specific to the SHA-256 mining algorithm.

At BTC Inc's flagship blockchain conference in San Francisco, Distributed 2018, experts from a wide variety of fields within the industry came to discuss the most salient issues facing distributed ...

Vienna, Austria, December 25th, 2025, ChainwireHoneyBadger BFT (HBBFT) consensus, which has been successfully pioneered and ...

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The logic embodied in all the nodes of a blockchain that ensures the chain's integrity. Because there is no central authority in a blockchain, the consensus mechanism ensures that at least 50% of the ...

South Korea’s largest public blockchain project, ICON (ICX), announced its new Loop Fault Tolerance 2.0 (LFT 2.0) consensus algorithm on April 8. The new algorithm claims to make performance ...

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A Hong Kong-based Matrix AI Network is developing a prototype of a new hybrid PoS/PoW consensus algorithm. This update was shared with Cointelegraph by Owen Tao, the company’s CEO. Tao described ...

BEIJING, Nov. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (NASDAQ: WiMi) ("WiMi" or the "Company"), a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality ("AR") Technology provider, today announced that ...