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Subscribe to our newsletterWe’re excited to announce that today we’re releasing the first version of the RSK Bamboo client node, together with the availability of RSK Bamboo Testnet. This release brings several security and stability improvements, new VM opcodes and bug fixes, among other changes. Since consensus rules have changed, this version is not compatible with previous versions. […]
In preparation for our upcoming beta mainnet release (Bamboo), RSK Testnet will be reset and network servers updated with a new and enhanced version of the RSK client node. This milestone is the first step towards the release of RSK mainnet network and the launch of our bug bounty program. What does a Testnet reset […]
In every Cryptocurrency, each transaction included in the ledger needs to be uniquely identified by an id, which is generally a hash digest of the transaction data. A cryptocurrency provides transaction signature segregation if it excludes the transaction signature when computing the transaction id. This has two benefits: it allows signatures to be removed from […]
By Gabriel Kurman. A few weeks ago I had the possibility to visit multiple European cities to participate in Blockchain conferences and meetups, and get to know the local Bitcoin and Blockchain communities. My first stop was at the amazing World Blockchain Forum organized by Keynote. With more than 600 participants from more than 40 […]
Bogota, Colombia – October 13th, 2017. It was not yet another tech conference and definitely it was not a regular industry conference. I had the pleasure and the opportunity of being part of the largest FinTech conference in Latin America organized by the most active early-stage tech investor in the region, NXTP Labs. I was […]
A new RSK Ginger release has been published in our Github repo. This release introduces peer scoring (initial implementation), missing block validations, technical debt improvements and fixes minor issues detected in previous versions. This is a summary of the changes included in this version: Add peer scoring (#151). Replace Jetty with Netty as JSON-RPC Server (#156). Remove […]
A couple of weeks ago I had a fantastic experience during the “RSK European Tour”, attending meetups in Warsaw, London and Paris. I had the chance to present RSK and talk about the Internet of Value and our platform’s present and future. The good vibe about the Smart Contracts powered by Bitcoin network was incredible. Almost everyone […]
By Diego G. Zaldívar Intermediation has been key to the building of the global society we live in today. Human based trust has enabled the construction of the global economy and has also allowed democracies to continue thriving, as we know them today. With that said, intermediation has also failed us when middlemen decide to […]
A new RSK Ginger release has been published in our Github repo. This release introduces segwit support in merge mining functionality and includes some improvements and bug fixes. This is a summary of the changes included in this version: Add support for IPv6 addresses in bootstrap nodes (#138). Use connection IP in peer discovery process […]
A new RSK Ginger release has been published in our Github repo. This release focuses on performance and sync improvements, and fixes some bugs we’ve found since last release. This is a summary of the changes included in this version: Total difficulty was not being properly loaded when resuming from an existent local blockchain (#124). […]
A new RSK Ginger release has been published in our Github repo. This release focuses on performance and stability improvements, faster sync and the possibility of starting node using an existent blockchain database. This is a summary of the changes included in this version: It is now possible to resume node preserving the state of […]
Most smart contracts perform computations based on information coming from the outside world. This data must be transferred to the platform through the transaction layer. The cost of such transfers is generally significant, because the platform must price several factors into transfers. Every byte transferred: consumes bandwidth. delays block propagation (because it increases the inter-node […]
