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According to a new report by Delphi Digital, a cryptocurrency research & consulting company, dubbed “Entering the Ethereum: Long-Term Value Potential and Analysis,” some of the latent technical risks experienced by the smart-contracting platform are highlighted and concisely analyzed. The technical risks include the size of the blockchain, Infura centralization, cross-shard communications and code vulnerabilities.

The Lightning Network (LN) torch cost has crossed borders to Israel after being posted by an Iranian in a symbolic sign of peace amongst these two countries. This historic phenomenon only shows that bitcoin is indeed a political and borderless cash experience.

The data from Bitnodes, a popular site covering nodes of the Bitcoin (BTC) network, uncover the top 20 countries running Bitcoin nodes, with the United States leading the list with 2625, forming 25% of the total.

The amendment to distributed ledger technology (DLT) simplifications on the technologies which are based on registers including blockchain, which were approved in the Senate, carry many potential problems, both substantive and formal. As a matter of fact, several use cases of blockchain technology are basically wrong.

An updated ranking of nations by the largest number of nodes accessible was recently done by Bitnodes – a popular site covering nodes of the Bitcoin (BTC) network. At press time, there are more than 10,000 reachable nodes relatively spread across the entire globe. Nodes exist in two types, namely: accessible (reachable) and non-accessible (non-reachable).

China has launched new regulations designed to promote the ‘healthy development’ of distributed ledger technology (DLT). The CAC denoted new regulations on Thursday, January 10, 2018. Nevertheless, the new law also gives the right to the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) to superintend node operators and to request private information (info).

HTC is soon releasing its blockchain-powered mega smartphone called HTC Exodus, probably at the end of 2018.

Skywire are on a mission to redefine the way the internet is viewed, the blockchain based platform mission is to make the internet as transparent and to push ease-of-access to the forefront. Skywire reconstructs how the world wide web connects people.

The pioneering Ethereum-based e-commerce solution is looking for Sellers and Ambassadors to kickstart its new platform.