Unitize
During yesterday’s Unitize blockchain conference, developer Bruno Škvorc illustrated how a Polkadot-based blockchain can be launched within one hour.
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Hard Fork News
The definition of a hard fork is not easy, so we’ll better start with an example from the latest hard fork news. A well-known example of a hard fork was the appearance of Bitcoin Cash as an alternative to Bitcoin Classic with improved transaction speed and smaller fees. This schism led to the presence of 2 completely different currencies. The key point of this occasion is those changes are permanent, and that is what differs hard fork from any other changes in the system.
So, a hard fork is a radical change in the Blockchain that makes all the previous blocks or transactions invalid (or vice-versa). Events like this make all users upgrade their software to the latest version, because previous versions become unusable in the newest one. This event creates a split or a fork: one path follows the new version and one path follows the old one.
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Qtum completed a testnet hard fork prior to launching its mainnet hard fork.
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Beam updates details on its June 28 hard fork, laying out foundations for the firm’s future DeFi offering.
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A former Steem witness received death threats from a Hive user, is DPoS to blame for the Steem/Hive drama?
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Ethereum Classic performed its scheduled upgrade to bring Ethereum’s Istanbul features to the classic chain, making the two protocols fully compatible with each other.
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While Binance will support the Steem hard fork to freeze $6M in user funds, CZ offered support to additional forks.
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Steem has completed a soft fork which sanctions the account that went rogue and sent 23.6 million STEEM to Bittrex in protest of a recent hard fork.
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Steem’s latest hard fork has been completed but almost $6 million of STEEM due for seizure was ‘rescued’ in a mysterious transaction to Bittrex exchange.
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Steem will freeze another $5 million in funds associated with the accounts of Hive supporters.
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Signs indicate that Venezuela’s state-backed cryptocurrency quietly underwent a hard fork earlier this month.
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After successfully completing its first hard fork in August 2019, privacy coin Beam plans to execute its second hard fork in June 2020.
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Gatehub and Bitstamp are facing lawsuits from a Canadian investor over $4.9 million in alleged losses resulting from misleading info.
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With an undercurrent of crypto funding in indie film projects, is there enough potential to disrupt the entire industry?
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A group of former core Steem developers formed a new company to monetize open-source development on Hive & compete with private corporations.
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Steem has again taken aim at the blockchain's former validators, executing a soft fork to freeze 17.6 million tokens associated with its previous witnesses.
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