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Lightning Network Centralization Leads to Economic Censorship
A few months ago, I wrote an article called “Mathematical Proof That the Lightning Network Cannot Be a Decentralized Bitcoin Scaling Solution”. It received quite a bit of...
Cryptocurrency Exchange Poloniex Has Been Bought by Circle
Payment company Circle has announced that it has purchased Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange. Rumors of the acquisition had been circulating for weeks, and were finally...
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$623 MILLION IN STOLEN BITCOIN FROM 2016 BITFINEX HACK HAS BEEN MOVED
According to blockchain analysis service Whale Alert, 10,057 bitcoin (worth some $623 million at the time...
Lightning’s First Implementation Is Now in Beta
Today, March 15, Lightning Labs announced lnd 0.4-beta, the first beta release of the Lightning software implementation spearheaded...
Why Use Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a relatively new form of currency that is just beginning to hit the...
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PayPal allows Bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions
PayPal allows Bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions
Just a few years ago, Paypal used to categorically oppose...
Top 11 Wallets for the Bitcoin Lightning Network
The Lightning Network is allowing Bitcoin to finally fulfill the promise of P2P digital cash...
In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism
We've been hearing for years that the future is blockchain, not Bitcoin. The future of the...
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Bitcoin: A Casual and Non-Technical Explanation of Concepts Behind the Currency
What follows is a fairly simple and mostly true description of the way Bitcoin works using a couple of real-life examples but without using...
Ethereum’s Constantinople Hard Fork Is Being Delayed Until 2019
Ethereum's next hard fork, dubbed Constantinople, will be postponed until early 2019, developers confirmed in a meeting Friday.
Initially targeted to activate in November this year, developers...
South Korean Bithumb Exchange Loses $30M in Latest Cryptocurrency Hack
Hackers have reportedly made away with cryptocurrencies worth $30 million from Bithumb, South Korea's leading exchange, according to reports from a blog update. The exchange...
U.S. BECOMES WORLD’S BIGGEST BITCOIN MINER, BEATING CHINA
The United States is now the epicenter for Bitcoin Mining, accounting for 35.4% of the global hash rate at the end of July 2021,...
Bitcoin’s scary drop rattles one of its biggest bulls
Bitcoin is getting burned.
The controversial cryptocurrency plunged near the $11,000 mark on Friday, losing nearly a third of its value in a single day,...
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Why are there only 21 million Bitcoins?
As we all know, the total amount of bitcoins to ever exist will be 21 million. In fact, it's 20,999. No one has ever...
~7000 BTC moved out of Binance and they have suspended withdrawal....
Breaking news: Binance, a Malta-registered Bitcoin & crypto asset exchange that is one of the most well-respected in the market, has just revealed that...
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BREAKING: #BITCOIN HITS $100,000 FOR FIRST TIME EVER!
When Bitcoin was first launched by Satoshi Nakamoto, there was no price. It was literally worth $0.
The price of bitcoin first broke over $100 in April of 2013 and was captured on film as...
BREAKING DOWN THE 2024 BITCOIN HALVING: IMPLICATIONS AND PREDICTIONS FOR BITCOIN MINERS
The Bitcoin halving event, a pivotal occurrence, is scheduled for April, 19 2024. This quadrennial event will reduce the block subsidy for Bitcoin miners from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC, thereby halving the reward that...
APPROVED: Spot Bitcoin ETFs to Trade on US Markets in Historic Milestone
Today, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially approved the listing of the first-ever spot Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). This move marks a historic milestone in the evolution of Bitcoin adoption within traditional financial...
Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored
Every Bitcoin transaction is stored in the distributed database known as the Bitcoin blockchain. However, people have found ways to hack the Bitcoin protocol to store more than just transactions. I've searched through the...
Mainnet Merge Announcement
Ethereum is moving to proof-of-stake! The transition, known as The Merge, must first be activated on the Beacon Chain with the Bellatrix upgrade. After this, the proof-of-work chain will migrate to proof-of-stake upon hitting...
Ethereum After the Merge: What Comes Next?
At the Ethereum Community Conference in Paris, the Ethereum blockchain’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, shared what he expects for Ethereum in a post-Merge era. Buterin closed the conference by sharing that after the Merge, Ethereum will only...
The Final Countdown to the Ethereum Merge Has Officially Begun
The Ethereum blockchain’s Merge is officially underway and will likely kick in sometime between Sept. 13-16. The Bellatrix upgrade – the network's final "hard fork" before the Merge – was activated on Tuesday, marking the beginning...
The People Will See The Value In Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work
Preachin’ to the Choir
The average Bitcoiner from 2016 could argue they do not gain much value from a commentary about proof-of-work versus proof-of-stake. Justifiably so, as that “orange-pilled” person has been through the blocksize...
BITCOIN PIZZA DAY: P2P DIGITAL CASH ACTUALIZED 12 YEARS AGO
Bitcoin Pizza Day is likely the famous remembrance day of Bitcoin’s history. It alludes to the day when BTC was first used to purchase a real-world product, on May 22, 2010.
The transaction took place...
In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism
We've been hearing for years that the future is blockchain, not Bitcoin. The future of the world won't be one major cryptocurrency, or even a few, but many cryptocurrencies - and the winning ones will...