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On September 29, 2017 during a conference at the Bank of England, Christine Lagarde (IMF’s Managing Director) mentioned the following on her presentation: “I think it may not be wise to dismiss virtual currencies. Why might citizens hold virtual currencies rather than physical dollars, euros, or sterling?  Because it may one day, be easier and safer than obtaining paper […]

Billions of dollars are spent each year on digital advertising platforms. However, there are two major problems that advertisers have been struggling with for a very long period: fake bot traffic and brand safety issues. According to the ANA (Association of National Advertisers), bot-fraud was estimated at 6.5 billion USD globally for 2017 so this […]

We are pleased to announce that BTC.com completed its merged-mining integration on the RSK MainNet Network, meaning that one of the largest mining pool companies is now providing its hashing power to validate and secure RSK sidechain’s transactions. With most of the relevant Bitcoin mining pools implementing and testing the merged-mining plugin, this integration represents one more […]

One of the typical market inefficiencies that green energy producers have to constantly deal with is the cost of project financing. There are hundreds of green-energy producers around the world that are not able to fund their projects because of the high financing costs. This situation is a great example of how Blockchain technology is […]

We are pleased to announce the release of a public infrastructure service to let the dApp developers focus on their blockchain applications development without worrying about the infrastructure while achieving a zero infrastructure installation process. Without the need of installing any infrastructure component and having an on-demand scalable architecture, blockchain developers and third-party companies can […]

RSK Bamboo v0.4.4 is now available in our Github repo. This release is mainly focused on performance improvements, reducing block processing and blockchain synchronization times. This is a summary of the changes included in this version: Bridge performance improvements (#585) Added onBestBlock event (#587) Remove tx execution on tx pool addition (#596) Consider networkId parameter in […]

One of the main goals of Blockchain technologies is to eliminate many of the typical market inefficiencies. So which are these typical market inefficiencies? 1 – High Costs of Intermediation Traditional intermediation costs are in many cases ridiculously expensive. In order to clarify, let’s think about a couple of examples: Stock Brokerage Fees Bank Wires […]

Centralized monetary systems have shown us many times along history that they have major flaws. Constant debt acquisition or accelerated issuance and inflation are always a bad recipe. The centralized traditional monetary system has some structural flaws that generate asymmetrical wealth transfer cycles consolidating more power into fewer hands each time the cycle is repeated. […]

This article describes a weakness in the design of Bitcoin Merkle trees that reduces the security of SPV (Simple Payment Verification) clients. By exploiting the weakness, an attacker can simulate a payment of arbitrary amount to a victim using a SPV wallet, and trick the victim into accepting it as valid (a “Fake Transaction Attack” […]

A new RSK Bamboo release has been made available in our Github repo. Bamboo v0.4.3 introduces support for pub/sub using subscriptions (‘newHeads’), improves usage of configuration settings and fixes minor issues detected in previous versions. Important note: This version introduces several changes in configuration file. We’ve made available a very simple tool that makes configuration migration […]

RSK is the first smart contract platform built as a sidechain to Bitcoin that rewards the Bitcoin miners via merge-mining, allowing them to actively participate in the RSK Smart Contract ecosystem 1. There’s nothing you have to do that would make Bitcoin mining difficult RSK does not need special equipment to help us secure our […]

By Alejandro Banzas This tutorial aims to help you install the required environment, code your first smart contract and deploy it to RSK network. If you find something unclear, or have ideas on how to improve this or new tutorials? Found this useful? Want to help building more tutorials? Have ideas? Feel free to contact […]