Eric Larchevêque
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Segwit, the long awaited pack of optimizations to scale Bitcoin has been activated on August 24th. This article explains how can you use Segwit benefits with Ledger’s hardware wallet products.
In the last days of July 2017, the Bitcoin miners have unanimously decided to signal for Segregated Witness, ending a years long scaling debate discussion. However a few participants decided to reject this decision and create their own Bitcoin fork, Bitcoin Cash (also known as BCC, ABC or UAHF). As a result, all Bitcoin holders will be granted a new duplicated Bitcoin Cash balance (literally airdropped free money) if the fork activates — this post and the follow ups will describe how you can best secure this new balance, then decide to trade it, hold it or sell it as you wish.
There is more and more chatter regarding the possibility of a Bitcoin hard fork. We wanted to provide some early guidance and information to our customers regarding the availability of their assets on all upcoming chains.
The cryptocurrency and blockchain security pioneer Ledger has secured a $7M Series A funding led by MAIF Avenir, with the participation of Xange, Wicklow Capital, GDTRE, Libertus Capital, Digital Currency Group, The Whittemore Collection, Kima Ventures, BHB Network and Nicolas Pinto.
Blockchain applications live in their own digital realm, totally orthogonal to the “meat space” also known as the Real World™. Be it decentralized application or smart contracts, their reach is limited to the space they can control. Any use case projection in our reality eventually confronts the following hard fact: how can an app efficiently and securely interact with the physical world?
