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The Ethereum Classic blockchain was the victim of a 51% attack (often called a majority or Sybil attack) on January 5, 2019 that reorganized portions of the blockchain and allowed the attackers to ...

Dr Gideon Greenspan is the founder and CEO of Coin Sciences, the company behind the MultiChain platform for private blockchains. In this opinion piece, Greenspan attacks the idea that true ...

Data Immutability is the basis of all functioning cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin aims to become digital store of value and a decentralized currency that competes with central banks. This will never happen ...

Chris DeRose is a journalist, software developer, bitcoin evangelist, public speaker and lead developer of Drop Zone. In this feature, DeRose discusses immutability and why he believes excessive ...

With rising institutional interest and adoption of various cryptoassets, including bitcoin but also many other crypto related applications, it seems worthwhile to revisit an often-stated, but ...

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Data is the lifeblood of today's enterprises and an extremely lucrative target for attackers. Ransomware, which essentially holds data "hostage" by encrypting it until the company pays a ransom, is ...

Immutability is a feature of functional programming languages that makes programs easier to write, test, and maintain. However, immutability is not supported by many imperative programming languages.