SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3,
2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Maxthon, the global Internet browser company,
announces it is building the world's first Bitcoin-powered browser
for the Bitcoin SV (BSV) blockchain. Maxthon 6 will be the next
version of the award-winning browser – with an alpha release
expected in late February, and a beta version targeted for
March 2020.
Since 2003, Maxthon has provided a state-of-the-art,
multi-platform web browser that is one of the world's most popular
– serving as the default browser for over 670 million
users. Since its inception, Maxthon has won many top honors in
About.com's Readers' Choice Awards; has been nominated for
PCWorld's 100 Best Products; and received a 5-star award from CNET
and named "Best Free Software."
Bitcoin SV Will Power a Better Internet
Always at the forefront of web technology, Maxthon believes the
BSV blockchain will power the next-generation Internet – known as
the "Metanet." The Metanet is the Internet operating through the
Bitcoin blockchain, by combining Bitcoin's dual capabilities to
send financial payments and transmit data simultaneously. It
is a better online world that gives consumers easy ways to use and
earn micropayments from their online activity, content and data.
The Metanet is conceived by Dr. Craig S.
Wright – creator of Bitcoin (Satoshi
Nakamoto) and now Chief Scientist of nChain, the leading
blockchain technology firm.
The Metanet is only possible with Bitcoin Satoshi Vision because
BSV follows Satoshi Nakamoto's
original protocol and design to massively scale the blockchain.
This allows BSV to handle much greater data capacity and process
high volumes of fast microtransactions at incredibly low cost.
Currently, it costs less than 1/20 of a U.S. cent to send a
BSV payment; those fees will become even lower as BSV scales even
bigger.
With tiny transaction fees, the BSV blockchain enables online
applications for users to quickly send, spend and earn back small
amounts of money – pennies or even fractions of a penny – with
their data and online activity. As a result, the BSV
ecosystem has been exploding with new ventures that give
consumers creative ways to use and earn BSV in microtransactions –
such as for consumer reviews, social media posts, online games, and
even to monetize your identity and consumer data.
Maxthon's Browser for a Bitcoin-Powered Internet
BSV seeks to enable a world where data, transactions and digital
activity of all types can be "on-chain" on a single blockchain,
just like the world operates online on a single Internet. This
new on-chain world needs a Bitcoin-powered browser, and that is
what Maxthon will provide. Among other features, the new
Maxthon 6 browser will:
- enable easy wallet integration with BSV-powered applications.
To use BSV apps, a user typically needs to have a BSV wallet and
some coins. Maxthon will explore various ways for its browser
to integrate Bitcoin SV wallets through which users acquire, spend
and earn coins. This will make it easier for users to quickly
begin enjoying the wide range of BSV applications while they surf
the Internet;
- make it easy to upload data, content and other files to the BSV
blockchain, even without first needing to hold any BSV coins;
- act as a "blockchain browser" - providing fast and easy ways to
search and view "on-chain" data and content that will become
increasingly stored on, and accessed from, the BSV blockchain;
- support threshold key technology which will make Bitcoin SV
wallets more secure to manage; and
- provide open APIs that allow developers and businesses to
easily integrate their blockchain applications to the Maxthon
browser.
Maxthon's founder and CEO Jeff Chen explains: "We want
the Maxthon browser to be the online application platform and
user's window to the exciting world of Bitcoin SV combined with the
Internet. Our goal is to make it so easy and seamless to use
BSV applications that users do not even need to know BSV is
involved in the background. Consumers will just know they are
using and earning electronic cash from their online content, data,
interactions and activity. This is the future of the Internet, and
why we believe in Bitcoin SV."
Jimmy Nguyen, Founding President
of Bitcoin Association (the global industry organization that backs
Bitcoin SV) comments: "Jeff Chen and
Maxthon see early what the rest of the world will come to
understand: the Internet's future will be powered by the
Bitcoin SV blockchain. We believe their Maxthon 6 browser will
advance a future Internet that truly rewards users for their data,
creates monetary value from user online activity, and incentivizes
higher web content – all only possible on BSV."
About Maxthon
Founded in 2005, Maxthon is a global software company that
develops state-of-the-art web browsers that give users a seamless
browsing experience across multiple platforms. Committed to high
standards for innovation, the Maxthon suite of browsers supports a
wide range of devices from computer to mobile. Maxthon
browsers are used each month by more than 100 million people in 140
countries around the globe. Maxthon has offices in San
Francisco, Hong Kong and Beijing. For more
information, please visit: http://www.maxthon.com/
To learn more Maxthon's plans for the BSV-powered browser, come
to the CoinGeek London conference, February
20-21, 2020 in London,
United Kingdom. Maxthon's CEO Jeff
Chen will be speaking about the browser plans and other
Bitcoin SV projects from his company. Also visit BitcoinSV.com to
learn more about BSV.
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