Bitcoin Cash price tops $500

Over the past 24 hours, Bitcoin Cash price exceeded $500

18 August 2017 1493

Over the past 24 hours, the price of the cryptocurrency formed as a result of the Bitcoin hard fork has grown rapidly, exceeding the $500 mark.

The data provided by coinmarketcap.com shows that Bitcoin Cash surge began on Thursday, August 17th, and on Friday night, the cryptocurrency price reached $567. Bitcoin Cash Market capitalization was $ 9.364 billion, thereby reaching the third place in the total list and ousprining Ripple.

Bitcoin Cash charts on coinmarketcap.com

Notably, more than 50% of Bitcoin Cash's total trading volume is accounted for the Korean exchanges Bithumb, (38.45%), Korbit (7.72%) and Coinone (5.80%).
On top of that, starting from August 22th, Bitcoin Cash will be available to customers of the Swiss Falcon Private Bank.

Bitcoin Cash charts on coinmarketcap.com

As shown, at the time of writing, Bitcoin Cash price went down a bit and is about $477.

Python Ethereum Blockchain

Ethereum Scaling Solution Raiden to Launch Last Testnet

As noted by the developers, after implementing the new solution, the Ethereum network will be able to provide more than a million transactions per second

20 July 2018 163

On Thursday, July 19, at the Dappcon developer conference in Berlin, the last test network of Raiden for the Ethereum blockchain was launched, CoinDesk reports.

The release includes a minimal implementation of the scaling solution, which will allow the transfer of Ethereum tokens outside of the main blockchain. This is the last test phase before the introduction of technology into the core network of Ethereum.

It's the first step towards going to the mainnet. We really want people to really test this so we have a user interface, we have an API and we've created an open Github for everything they could find, so if we go hopefully bug-free on the mainnet.

Lefteris Karapetsas

Core Developer, Raiden

According to him, the new release represents an early implementation for the core network and contains a new rewritten code of smart contracts and payment channels that can be restored in case of unintended closure.

Also, Karapetsas urged developers to join the test network to help detect possible bugs, adding that a bounty program will be launched to encourage this activity.

The release date for the main network has not yet been assigned, but the developers intend to follow this earlier promise and launch Raiden this summer.

Karapetsas also promised to publish regular updates and code optimizations after the full release, adding that Raiden will complement other Ethereum scaling solutions that are currently being developed.

Raiden is essentially the payment channel network for ethereum, it's supposed to help us scale token transfers. The long term goal would be to have people use Raiden from a mobile device and be able to make off-chain token transfers just from their phone. That would be the long term vision, it would probably work in combination with various scaling solutions, sharding, plasma, a sort of hybrid.

Lefteris Karapetsas

Core Developer, Raiden

Raiden is developing from the 2015 and is written mostly on Python. The project is much like the Lightning Network. As noted by the developers, after implementing the new solution, the Ethereum network will be able to provide more than a million transactions per second.