Samson Mow on Blockstream, Seetee, Bitcoin Mining, NFTs & Infinite Fleet
Andy is joined by Samson Mow, CSO at Blockstream. Samson discusses the partnership between Blockstream and Seetee, a new Bitcoin company started by a 100-year-old company from Norway. He talks about the drop in hashpower from Chinese miners as American miners increase, and he explains why he thinks Bitcoin will hit $100k in 2021 and could go even as high as $300K leaving $100K as the new price floor.
Blockstream launches Bitcoin mining solution
Leading Bitcoin company Blockstream has announced the launch of a mining infrastructure-as-a-service solution based in Quebec.
Japan’s Crypto Garage to roll out yen stablecoin
Several big names have joined forces in Japan to help build blockchain financial services
Blockstream vs miners – looking at the incentives around the SegWit2x fork
The past few months in the Bitcoin community have been filled with discussion of an upcoming hardfork - SegWit2x. There have been a lot of people voicing their opinion on the matter of whether that fork should be allowed to pass or not, but today I would like to look at who I believe to be two key players in this debate - Blockstream (opposing SegWit2x) and the miners, the core signatories of the New York Agreement. More specifically, I will be focusing on the incentives both of those parties have when it comes to dealing with SegWit2x.
Blockstream Satellite broadcasting the Bitcoin blockchain across the globe
Blockstream has just announced that the Bitcoin blockchain is now being broadcast from space. The new service, Blockstream Satellite, streams data down to much of the planet’s surface for free, in order to boost the connectivity, decentralization, redundancy, affordability, security, privacy, and ultimately adoption of Bitcoin. “Blockstream Satellite enables further participation in Bitcoin,” states the company, “including the billions of people in the world without internet access and people in places where bandwidth prices make participating cost-prohibitive.”
Blockstream’s Bitcoin sidechain solution, Liquid, slated for launch in early 2018
Sidechains promise to help Bitcoin adapt to new demands and accommodate new innovation, according to the company behind the seminal sidechain whitepaper, Blockstream. Several different companies have been developing the idea since Blockstream introduced the concept in an October 2014.
Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains
We propose a new technology,pegged sidechains,which enables bitcoins and other ledger assets to be transferred between multiple blockchains. This gives users access to new and innovative cryptocurrency systems using the assets they already own.
