The first concept of a sidechain was published in an academic paper on the Oct. 22, 2014, by Adam Back, the inventor of HashCash and current CEO of Blockstream. Also involved were a host of legendary ...

Processing a compressor’s external sidechain input opens up a huge range of ways to tweak its behaviour. Here are a few suggestions… When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The idea of sidechains as a scaling and feature extension mechanism for Bitcoin is a very old concept. A kind of basic “ancestor” idea of sidechains, merge mined chains, even goes back to before ...

Blockchain software company Peersyst has launched an Ethereum-compatible sidechain on the XRP Ledger’s devnet, Peersyst and RippleX announced Monday. Devnets, or developer networks, are separate from ...