It was one of those warm Dutch summer afternoons in July 2024 that stay with you not because anything big happened, but because everything felt right. No plans, no pressure…
In the 1980s, researchers introduced the first proposals of using quantum-mechanical phenomena to perform computational tasks, and since then, researchers have been working to develop practical quantum computers. In the early days, these efforts were largely theoretical. Still, in the past few decades, quantum computers have become more functional, and researchers have built prototype quantum computers that can perform specific tasks faster than classical computers.
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The Bitcoin blockchain added the Bitcoin Lightning Network as a second layer to the Bitcoin blockchain. The Lightning Network allows you to do off-chain transactions, and off-chain transactions are between parties not on a blockchain network.
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In early May, Bitcoin lost almost 35% of its value and dropped to 27K$ within a week. The rest of the cryptocurrency followed its pattern. A lot of owners of cryptocurrency were in total shock: how could this happen and more important: what lies ahead?
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After the successful launch of the Alonzo Hard Fork update on September 12th, 2021, the next big milestone of the Roadmap of the Cardano Blockchain project is the Hydra update.
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NFT trading is getting more popular. Although the adoption of NFTs is lagging behind cryptocurrency, investing in NFTs can also be very interesting as part of your investment portfolio. In this post, I will explain how you can create, acquire and trade NFTs
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In a previous post, I explained the basics of NFTs. In this post, I will continue to give more insight into NFTs and the possibilities/opportunities it has. NFTs are still in early adoption and embracing NFTs as an investor right now, making it part of your portfolio might have a very positive impact on your portfolio value in the (near) future.
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