Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. The Bitcoin network is often touted as one of the most ...

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A blockchain is a decentralized, distributed ledger that records transactions—organized into units called blocks—across a peer-to-peer network where participants remain anonymous. Blockchains are ...

The method by which cryptocurrency and digital asset companies issue their blockchain-based tokens into the market has evolved, pushed along by regulatory developments and technological advancements.

Blockchains are evolving, and consensus mechanisms are at the heart of it. Here's a quick look at the range of decentralized validation and authentication mechanisms in use today. Blockchain networks ...

Tech giant IBM has applied for a blockchain patent for the development of transaction data identifiers based on nodes, according to a patent document published by the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office ...

Most online transactions require that individuals disclose specific personal information before they can proceed to access services. For instance, before financial transactions can be carried out on ...

Ethereum’s most recent fork was (eventually) successful, but it came with unintended consequence: the greater cryptocurrency community learned of its special “big, scary nodes,” and immediately ...