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MasterCard, the world’s payments colossal, is planning to patent a way to add a new node to a blockchain network quickly, according to new filings revealed recently.

On the surface, Bitcoin appears full of promise. It first presented the opportunity to bring financial freedom to those who no longer deal with traditional finance, or indeed those who could not access the financial system.

Blockchain and its well-publicized shortcomings go a long way back to 2009 when it was first built for the pioneer cryptocurrency; Bitcoin.  The scalability issues currently plaguing the technology is as a result of nodes in the blockchain system performing at less than optimal speed, leading to clogs in the system and transactional congestion.

ARK has recently optimized their core model, providing users with behind the scenes details of their recent progress. The new platform has been well designed and has the efficiency set to the maximum, and ARK are now giving users an insight into their recent project ARK Core v2. It was a necessity to undergo changes to prepare for the next generation of DPoS Blockchains.

The crypto-industry development has reached an unprecedented scale, and even the latest Ethereum platform-based blockchain development (Ether) sometimes takes quite a long time to cope with processing such a large influx of transactions in a few minutes.

Zug, Switzerland, 10th May. Mysterium have released their white paper showcasing a new model for a blockchain-based virtual private network (VPN). Mysterium is developing the first fully decentralised and distributed VPN in an effort to safeguard online privacy. The whitepaper, released for comment today, outlines their vision for a global peer to peer network that combats the risk of cybercrime.

The unprecedented financial success of projects like Bitcoin and Ethereum often hides the fact that both enterprises essentially live on borrowed time due to the energy inefficiency of their platforms.

Bitcoin’s existence largely depends on how many people are using the peer-to-peer cryptocurrency. A bitcoin node can be an individual miner minting Bitcoins from his laptop or a chain of companies with complex mining rigs mining Bitcoin on a commercial scale. All these nodes keep the Bitcoin network running.

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