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Wipro announces joining Enterprise Ethereum Alliance [http://entethalliance.org] (EEA) as Founding Member to Develop Enterprise-Grade Blockchain Solutions in a press release [http://www.wipro.com/newsroom/press-releases/Wipro-Joins-Enterprise-Ethereum-Alliance-as-Founding-Member-to-Develop-Enterprise-Grade-Blockchain-Solutions/] on May 4, 2017. Wipro Limited Wipro [http://www.wipro.com] is a leading global information technology, consulting and business process
Ethereum based VISA-DEBIT card - “TokenCard” The biggest challenge of cryptocurrency today is the ease of usability. People are investing money in buying cryptocurrency but it is saved as assets. Since there is no simpler way of using it to buy and sell goods, it is not frequently used as
The Minimal Slashing Condition is a set of rules to work with many hashes and some number of nodes to finalize a block. It is carefully designed that if two incompatible blocks are finalized, then no matter how such a situation arises, there MUST exist some set of validators, with
Proof of Work Existing Blockchain technology [https://etherworld.co/topic/15/blockchain-beginner-s-guide-part-1] is working on the core concept of 'Proof Of Work' (POW). A proof-of-work (PoW) is a protocol that is difficult to compute but easy to verify. It can be verified in far less time than it
Overview Casper is the idea of Proof of Stake (POS) in Ethereum. It is being designed by Vlad Zamfir, Vitalik B. and other community members. Vlad came in touch with Ethereum community in September 2014. Ethereum foundation team had wanted to have Proof of Stake (POS) even before the Ethereum
'Living Room of Satoshi [https://www.livingroomofsatoshi.com]' is a payments company based out of Australia that enables payment of any bill using cryptocurrency (Bitcoin mostly). Their customers can pay phone bills, electricity bills, school fees, credit cards, tax payments and more. They can also pay to any
Scalability in blockchain Most popular debate in bitcoin community is that blockchain do not scale properly. It doesn't scale because every full node has to verify every transaction. The scaling doesn't really work well because of fixed block time (time between two blocks creation). If there
Hard fork and soft fork are the protocol upgrade mechanism in blockchain. Hard fork creates an incompatibility between the previous version and the latest version on software. There is always a possibility of split of blockchain (like Ethereum Classic). However, it is debatable, if they are preferred upgrade mechanism for
Russia has been studying Digital Currency for quite some time. Russian government officials have been looking into the concept of the Blockchain Technology and it’s possible usage in economic. As reported by Russian local media [https://rns.online/economy/Medvedev-poruchil-Minkomsvyazi-i-MER-prorabotat-vnedrenie-tehnologii-blokchein-v-Rossii-2017-03-06] on March 6, 2017, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
zk-SNARKS It is one of the hottest topics in cryptography over the last year. One major reason behind it being hot is Zcash launch. Zcash is a cryptocurrency, whose flagship feature is that it integrated zk-SNARKS (Zero Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge). General principles: * As the title suggests, this
Merkle Tree Merkle Tree also known as 'hash tree' is a data structure in cryptography in which each leaf node is a hash of a block of data, and each non-leaf node is a hash of its child nodes. In the most general sense, Merkle tree (named after
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