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MAST would allow larger intelligent contracts and increase privacy in blockchain

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The  Merkelized Abstract Syntax Trees (MAST)  are an improvement proposal for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that use SegWit, such as Litecoin.  Its adoption would allow greater privacy, smaller transaction sizes and smaller intelligent contracts, by using a combination of   Pay To Script Hash   (P2SH), Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) and the tree-like data structure called  Merkle Tree  . MAST  is in  Github  as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal or BIP, still without number and uploaded for the first time on April 2, 2016. The modality was devised by the developers  Russell O'Connor, Pieter Wuille and Peter Todd  , although it has been expanded or rethought by various developers, including   Johnson Lau, Mark Friedenbach, Gregory Maxwell  and   MIT scholars  .  But, how could MASTs improve the network in such a way? Let's suppose that Carlos has a certain amount of  bitcoin  , but, foreseeing that something may happen to him, chooses that if he spends six months without

Investors prefer alternative cryptocurrencies to Bitcoin

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Many investors feel that they have missed the bitcoin boom and are looking for a different path to cryptographic wealth.  They think that bitcoin is expensive, so investing in it would be unprofitable, while other cryptocurrencies like Dash have an accessible price and a higher growth rate. Dash has risen to $ 45 dollars since it was worth $ 11.50 dollars at the beginning of January 2017, according to the price index in CoinMarketCap.  With a market capitalization value of $ 326 million dollars,  Dash has become the third largest cryptocurrency  , behind Bitcoin and Ether.  Other digital currencies are in motion as well, including Monero and Zcash, to name a few of the more than 700 there are. "They think they've lost most of the boom, so they're starting to look for other currencies that could be their ticket,"  said Adam Wyatt  , chief operating officer of BullBear Analytics, a research firm and crypto-currency analysts. The cryptocurrency trade is spec

EXODUS Wallet Review

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If you are new to the  world of cryptocurrencies  , what comes next will enchant you.  And in case you already have time traveling through this ecosystem, this becomes a mandatory stop.  We talked about a  tutorial to start using Exodus  , a digital portfolio that, according to its creators, promises more and more. Exodus  is a  digital portfolio  launched by JP Richardson and Daniel Castagnoli in 2015, with an elegant and simple design, making it stand out at first sight.  Exodus is able to support up to a total of 5 cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash, Dogecoin, Litecoin)   among which can be exchanged through the integrated Shapeshift platform in the portfolio.  Although sometimes not everything is a rose garden.  Exodus throughout its existence has received numerous criticisms for not being completely open source.  This causes that it is received with certain distrust,  due to previous frauds caused by this nature .  Although to reduce criticism, they have gradually publ

LEARN HOW TO TRADE IN POLONIEX

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It is no secret to anyone that in the 80's Wall Street was spitting millionaires, the stock markets were in full swing, every day a new rich was born.  So much was the fame of this era, that we still see films with references to that time as it is the Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.  Many were the lucky people who managed to get hold of big capitals, but, of course, not by magic: there were several methods that these people used to become millionaires, and one of them was the speculation among the shares of companies, seeking profits between the sale.  In a nutshell.  buy cheap, sell expensive. With regard to the above, with the  growth of the cryptocurrency market  and the diverse variety of currencies that have been created, specialized exchange houses have started to appear where you can make  exchanges between cryptocurrencies  , speculating among their prices to obtain profits.  We clarify something:  we do not promise that this practice will turn you i