A few months ago, I wrote a post about Blockchain and its significance within the cryptographic world. I aimed to present the basic notion of this technology without delving into technical details, but I missed defining something very important: Blockchain is part of the new distributed technologies known as DLT. Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has …
In this post, I want to discuss a fundamental event to understand Bitcoin cycles and how they affect other cryptocurrencies. This event is known as the “Bitcoin Halving.” Bitcoin, the world’s first cryptocurrency, has an important pre-programmed feature: the reward or payment that miners receive for including transactions in a block on the blockchain is …
Everyone talks about cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin. There is growing interest in this currency and all the projects that make up the crypto world. At some point, the term “Blockchain” always comes up as the technology behind cryptocurrencies. But… what is blockchain? How is it formed or what elements make it up? Where is it physically …