Since its launch on June 23, Silicoin has had some minor successes with many miners and community involvement. The current network space has reached 150 PiB and has been rising steadily. In the past two weeks, we carefully read all the discussions and suggestions about Silicoin in Discord, Telegram, and…

Digging into the current mainstream encrypted digital currencies, BTC mining is not environmentally friendly and has been plotted against by many countries, while the mining situation of ETH after being converted to PoS is still unknown. So Chia was born. It is building a blockchain platform based on Proofs of…

In Silicoin network, the application node is going to be the timelord starting from testnet1 & testnet2. Then the application nodes will start their task to achieve anonymous transfer in testnet3 and support smart contract in testnet4. Why we need to deploy the application node and get connect with Silicoin…

While cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin might be all the rage today, they’re criticised for their heavy consumption of energy. The more energy you use with the help of a powerful hardware, the more cryptocurrency you can mine. Recently, BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen launched his own cryptocurrency and Chia Network makes a…

A Long Journey On 21st Mar 2021, we revealed Silicoin Network to the world, and announced their intent to propose a new chain structure that combines Proof-of-Work(PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) securely. In the days since that first announcement, a passionate and diverse community has rallied around the platform. This community…

Bitcoin-like blockchains use a proof-of-work (PoW) mechanism, where security holds if the majority of the computing power is under the control of honest players. However, this assumption has been seriously challenged recently, and Bitcoin-like systems fail if this assumption is violated. In this work Silicoin propose a new blockchain structure…

On July 12th, 2021, Silicoin took a snapshot in block height 93939 and started the testnet1.5. It ran stable at the beginning, but it was stuck in block height 2601. Then it moved on again and stopped once again in block height 2909 after few hours. The Silicoin team has…