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On this post, RSK´s Head of Adoption Ruben Altman, provides the answers to his AMA session. Which are the main pros over Blockstream’s Liquid (RSK Main Competitor)? There are only two other Bitcoin sidechain projects that are currently active: Liquid and Truthcoin’s drivechain. Liquid is a federated sidechain, somehow similar to RSK. Liquid aims to […]

The identity management system that we’ve used for decades has some important problems. Paper based systems are always subject to the possibility of loss, destruction and fraud. Centralized digital systems on the other hand, are digital gold for hackers as they can access huge amounts of private information when they find a security breach. Addresses, […]

By Sergio Demian Lerner, RSK Chief Scientist On RSK’s Block Reward Smoothing The security of Bitcoin relies on the economic incentives that exist for miners to extend the chain with most accumulated difficulty (usually the longest). Currently those incentives are provided by the block reward, which consists of the block subsidy and transaction fees. But […]

Billions of dollars are spent globally on e-commerce transactions. Whether if you are dealing with a retail giant or a small business, e-commerce has completely changed the way on which we purchase services and products. However, until this year, many ecommerce giants & companies were reluctant to accept cryptocurrencies as a payment method. The good […]

A new RSK Wasabi release has been published in our Github repo. This a patch release that contains a fix for an eth_call method corner case bug introduced in Wasabi 1.0.0, and also adds support for database migration in nodes that did not complete the upgrade to Wasabi before its activation in block number 1,591,000. For further details […]

When we think about blockchain technology, one of its highlights is without a doubt, the possibility to provide traceability in a whole range of different industries. On this blogpost, we analyze some of the typical situations where blockchain technology can enormously contribute to the process.   Traceability on Supply Chain Management Supply chain management traceability […]

The release brings significant  improvements in performance, interoperability, storage and security, laying the foundation for RSK’s secure and scalable blockchain solutions mass adoption.  Gibraltar — Aug 1, 2019 — IOV Labs, the organization behind the RSK tech stack and RIF exchange ecosystem, announced today that its node upgrade, Wasabi 1.0.0, is up and running within […]

As announced a few weeks ago, the RSK network will be undergoing a planned network upgrade at block number 1,591,000. This is expected to happen on Wednesday, July 31st, 2019. What is a network upgrade? A network upgrade is a change or group of changes to the protocol consensus rules, which are activated at a defined […]

By Sergio Demian Lerner, RSK Chief Scientist Introduction to Bitcoin Mining Bitcoin Mining is the process used by Bitcoin to achieve Sybil-attack resistance and forms the basis for Nakamoto Consensus. The process involves solving computationally difficult puzzles while selecting a valid set of transactions to be applied to the ledger. Nowadays most Bitcoin mining is […]

On this post, RSK´s CTO Adrian Eidelman, answers the questions from June´s AMA. What are the next major development milestones? We’ve recently shared with the community the RSK roadmap that includes the upcoming milestones: https://rootstock.io/blog/development-roadmap/ The updates are mostly targeted to security. We’re also in the Testnet rollout phase of Wasabi 1.0.0, RSKj next version, which […]

A few days ago we announced we would be doing a fresh restart of RSK Testnet as part of RSK Wasabi rollout plan. Having successfully completed the process of updating our nodes, we’ve made a Wasabi 1.0.0 Preview release available. Please note this release is only mandatory for users running RSK nodes on Testnet. IMPORTANT: if you are updating […]

We are pleased to announce the release of the RSK platform development roadmap. Sharing it will enable us to have meaningful conversations with developers, researchers, partners and the RSK/RIF community on how our vision and technology can empower our society.  The roadmap is an open statement, a guide stating how we are prioritizing our efforts. […]