Change Healthcare Announces Enterprise Blockchain Solutions on Hyperleger Fabric

Today, at the Distributed: Health 2017 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Change Healthcare announced blockchain solutions on an enterprise scale. According to the company, which is one of the major independent healthcare technology providers in the U.S., the utilization of blockchain technology will help their clients in boosting revenue cycle efficiency, improving real-time analytics, cutting down […]

CarbonX and ConsenSys Put P2P Carbon Credit Trading on the Blockchain

Carbon credits trading (also known as “cap and trade”) as a means to help mitigate the effects of global climate change has long been advocated by environmentalists fighting one of the most intransigent environmental challenges of the 21st century. Now ConsenSys and CarbonX Personal Carbon Trading Inc. have stepped up to enable the first-ever peer-to-peer […]

Bitcoin Margin Trading Options for Beginners

The post Bitcoin Margin Trading Options for Beginners appeared first on 99 Bitcoins. Everyone I know is making a fortune either holding or trading Bitcoin.  In all reality, buying Bitcoin and holding it throughout the long term offers the potential for huge profits without having to stare at order books all day long. However, the […]

SegWit2X and the Case for Strong Replay Protection (And Why It’s Controversial)

Come November, the remaining signatories of the “New York Agreement” (NYA) plan to deploy the “SegWit2X” hard fork to double Bitcoin’s block weight limit, allowing for up to 8 megabytes of block space. Since not everyone supports this hard fork, this could well “split” the Bitcoin network into two incompatible blockchains and currencies, not unlike […]