With the recent update of the Bitcoin SV Node software, a solution was reinforced that would prevent an actor in the Bitcoin network from spending the same transaction twice, including reversing payments—commonly referred to as double-spending.
In a recently published paper, titled ‘Cashbacks falling from the sky: Can retail CBDC rollout widen central banks’ toolkit?’, nChain Researcher Dr Vlad Skovorodov and former nChain Researcher Dr Zamid Aligishiev examine the feasibility of electronic cashback and varying cashback rates as facilitated by a potential retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) to enhance the economic toolkit for targeting inflation rates.
nChain is pleased to see the larger, record-breaking blocks recently mined on the Bitcoin SV blockchain, following an increase in the cap on block size. The increase marks an important development for our enterprise customers, including those accessing blockchain technology through Kensei, the platform we announced on July 22, 2021. Increasing block sizes has two …
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In a recently published academic conference paper, titled A Scalable Bitcoin-Based Public Key Certificate Management System, nChain Researcher Dr Chloe Tartan, nChain Chief Scientist Dr Craig S Wright, and fellow researchers Dr Michaella Pettit and Dr Wei Zhang explored utilising Bitcoin (SV) as part of a public key infrastructure and certificate management system, along with …
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