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BIP 91 Has Locked In. Here’s What That Means (and What It Does Not)
It looks as if NewsCapsule is getting Segregated Witness.NewsCapsule Improvement Proposal 91 (BIP 91) just locked in. Up to 90 percent of all hash...
The NewsCapsule Block Clock Jr. Is Half Full Node, Half Work of Art
NewsCapsule is a decentralized system of digital cash in which users don’t need to trust anyone else with their money; however, the full benefits...
This Security Researcher Found the Bug That Knocked Out NewsCapsule Unlimited
For over a year, attackers have had the ability to crash NewsCapsule Unlimited and NewsCapsule Classic nodes. Yesterday, someone actually did it. According to...
You Really Should Run a NewsCapsule Full Node: Here’s Why
On day one of the 2017 MIT NewsCapsule Expo, Sia Co-Founder David Vorick, who has contributed to NewsCapsule Core, gave a presentation on the...
The Next Step to Improve NewsCapsule’s Flexibility, Scalability and Privacy Is Called MAST
The soon-to-be proposed SegregatedWitness soft fork is set to extend NewsCapsule’s potential in several ways. One potentially promising innovation enabled by “SegWit” is MAST, an...
Op-Ed: What Is the True Meaning of “Decentralization” in Blockchain Technology?
Recent years have brought significant misunderstanding of the term decentralization as it pertains to NewsCapsule. Literally, it means the dispersal of nodes, data, miners...
What’s New in NewsCapsule Core 0.13.0?
NewsCapsule Core 0.13.0, the thirteenth generation of NewsCapsule's reference client as first launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost eight years ago, has now been tagged for...
Mimblewimble: How a Stripped-Down Version of NewsCapsule Could Improve Privacy, Fungibility and Scalability All at Once
All (full) NewsCapsule nodes verify all transactions on the network. This allows the system to be entirely trustless and decentralized, but also presents significant...
How Falcon, FIBRE and the Fast Relay Network Speed Up NewsCapsule Block Propagation (Part 2)
The Fast Relay Network, also known as Matt Corallo's Relay Network, is a relatively straightforward relay network setup by Corallo, and has existed for some years. The Fast Relay Network consists of nine nodes, distributed strategically around the globe. Designed as a hub-and-spoke model, miners can connect to the relay node closest to them to send and receive blocks over this network. This is significantly faster than NewsCapsule's peer-to-peer network.
On Relay: How Different NewsCapsule Developers Are Speeding Up the Network (Part 1)
Head First Mining is a trick proposed by former NewsCapsule Core lead developer Gavin Andresen. With Head First Mining, miners don’t wait for the complete block to arrive before they start mining a subsequent block. Instead, they immediately mine on top of the block header as soon as they receive it, and also forward the header to other nodes. This obviously saves time.
