Happy Birthday Bitcoin! Here’s a Look at Bitcoin’s 11th Year by the Numbers

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On January 3, 2009, the pseudonymous developer(s) Satoshi Nakamoto bootstrapped the Bitcoin network by mining its first ever block, block 0. The Genesis Block, as it has become known, came etched with a message...

Bitcoin 2019 Annual Review

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I’ve always been fascinated with the raw numbers relating to the operational status and growth of Bitcoin, especially as we ride the rollercoaster of the adoption life cycle. It’s why I created Statoshi.info in 2014 to...

Hashing Ahead: A Look at Bitcoin Mining in 2020

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The December 2019 report on the Bitcoin mining network from CoinShares Research, a division of the digital asset management firm, presented an industry in good health at the end of the year, with a hash...

2019: A Light(ning) year of progress

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Another year is almost over. For those of us working on Lightning, the pace of change has been so fast that it’s gone by in the blink of an eye, just like a …...

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

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Satoshi Nakamoto October 31, 2008 Abstract A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of...

Happy 18,000,000 bitcoins! ?

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https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/00000000000000000007316856900e76b4f7a9139cfbfba89842c8d196cd5f91   2019 - 86% 2024 - 94% 2028 - 97% 2024 is probably when you'll see that last 'parabolic' movement of Bitcoin, after that it will be permanently hoarded.

Top 11 Wallets for the Bitcoin Lightning Network

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  The Lightning Network is allowing Bitcoin to finally fulfill the promise of P2P digital cash that can be transacted instantly for extremely low fees. While developers continue to add new features and make this...

Bitcoin is Not Backed by Nothing

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Contrary to popular belief, bitcoin is in fact backed by something. It is backed by the only thing that backs any form of money: the credibility of its monetary properties. Money is not a...

The Inbound Capacity Problem in the Lightning Network

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In the last couple of weeks, many people in the Bitcoin community have been talking about inbound capacity in the Lightning Network. The increasing difficulty to receive the Lightning Torch together with Bitrefill’s launch of Thor and LND’s release...

andreas-antonopolous Canadian Senate Testimony on Bitcoin

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Let's back in 2014 Andreas M. Antonopoulos gave a speech to the senate of canada about bitcoin, this is over 5 yrs ago... the speech was so amazing...! And thanks Andreas for this speech...