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As Bitcoin Core devs decide to lift OP_RETURN size limit, new nodes are moving to more conservative software Knots. Why? origin »
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Cardano node is core component that underpins Cardano network
2023-1-22 12:08 | |
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Rust-based, the Akula Ethereum client, is incredibly fast. Ethereum clients are pieces of software that enable nodes to interact with the blockchain and execute smart contracts. In 2021, Ethereum core engineer Artem Vorotnikov assembled a small team of programmers to…
2022-11-26 02:30 | |
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Dogecoin developers released Core 1.14.6 update last Thursday
2022-7-25 18:51 | |
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Welcoming new official core team members into DIGITALAX is not an everyday occurrence, in fact, it’s so rare that we actively want to celebrate it with all of you when it happens. Although the protocol is always advancing decentralisation across more sectors and fields within the ecosystem, decentralisation doesn’t mean that champion nodes in the […] The post New Core Team Member Aboard! Welcome Cesh! appeared first on NFT News Today.
2022-2-16 04:26 | |
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Compact Blocks, used by Bitcoin Core nodes since version 0.13, contain minimal amounts of data to improve efficiency.
2022-1-4 20:40 | |
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Here’s why it's necessary to participate in the Bitcoin Core network of nodes, for six simple reasons.
2021-8-5 20:21 | |
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Input Output Global’s core nodes have been permanently switched off, making the network completely decentralized
2021-4-1 00:44 | |
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Amid increasing distrust of custodial solutions and recent upgrades to Bitcoin Core, more Bitcoiners are starting to run their own nodes.
2021-1-21 06:27 | |
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The largest developer client on Ethereum Classic, OpenEthereum (OE), completed a vote to deprecate development on the blockchain in a bid to focus their efforts on Ethereum and other projects. Following the vote, only Core Geth and Hyperledger Besu clients – which hold less than a third of the nodes – will continue supporting the […]
2020-7-22 19:01 | |
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Craig Wright claimed that Bitcoin is his intellectual property and that all of those that infringed on it (i. e. Bitcoin Core developers) are about to be legally prosecuted. The self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto outlined other equally ridiculous ideas in his blog post, including that all nodes and miners in the Bitcoin network are his personal agents.
2020-2-19 22:00 | |
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The key-management startup that offers one-click logins to decentralized apps (dapps) Torus has announced it has new partners for its Web 3.0 product. Joining Torus, those that will run nodes to support the decentralized login system are going to be Binance, Etherscan, Ethereum Name Service (ENS), Ontology, Ziliqa, Skale, Matic Network and Tendermint Core. Web […]
2020-2-13 21:17 | |
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Libra Association опубликовала вторую дорожную карту по развитию программного обеспечения Libra Core. Roadmap #2 released. Catch up on progress against key Libra protocol priorities like addressing/interoperability, full nodes, reliability and testing, synchronization, and security.
2019-12-20 10:58 | |
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Libra is getting a lot of response from the developer community, releasing blockchain explorers like libranaut, libraview, and libexplorer and integrating Libra into their wallets, shared Facebook’s cryptocurrency in its roadmap, released on Oct.
2019-10-3 17:35 | |
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A bug has existed for all protected addresses since the origin of Zcash and Zcash Protocol. It is present in all told Zcash source code forks. It's possible to search out the IP address of full nodes who own a shielded address (zaddr).
2019-9-30 18:11 | |
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Pieter Wuille, one of the most active Bitcoin core developers, has proposed a new BIP protocol called Erlay which would help the network grow further and secure it against numerous attacks. Bitcoin works on the principle of DLT, which is why the security of the network depends on the connectivity among these nodes.
2019-9-27 23:30 | |
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A recently published document reveals that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has plans to hire contractors to run specific cryptocurrency full nodes for the government agency. According to the SEC documentation, the regulator wants third-party contractors to run nodes for Bitcoin Core (BTC), Ripple (XRP) and Ethereum (ETH) in order to monitor compliance […] The post US Regulator Plans to Outsource Running Cryptocurrency Nodes appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-8-2 04:35 | |
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Bitcoin block at height 584,802 was an invalid block due to a discrepancy in coinbase reward value. The invalid block was confirmed by 8 other nodes at forkmonitor. info. BitMEX research tweeted: Bitcoin had an invalid block at height 584,802, as spotted by @juscamarena All 8 nodes at https://t.
2019-7-12 21:32 | |
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Bitmain-owned mining pool Antpool appears to have squandered at least $150,000 worth of Bitcoin mining rewards, reports BitMEX Research, the analytic arm of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX. At 14:35 UTC, June 10, the Bitcoin network rejected a block after it had been mined, which effectively cancelled the 12.
2019-7-11 17:19 | |
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As if 2019 hasn’t been crazy enough, earlier today someone seemingly tried to counterfeit an entire Bitcoin block. Bitcoin had an invalid block at height 584,802, as spotted by @juscamarena All 8 nodes at https://t.
2019-7-11 23:45 | |
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Last week, NEO developers upgraded their network’s mainnet consensus nodes, including the core consensus protocol. The updated delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance (dBFT) consensus mechanism is designed to provide strict one-block finality, a challenge both in terms of technical specification and research.
2019-6-10 21:48 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-6-4 23:41 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-5-31 23:41 | |
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Bitcoin price and nodes have either no or negative correlation Investors, long-term HODLers should pay attention to the number of nodes to ensure bitcoin’s core value as an asset In its latest report, DataLight, a cryptocurrency analysis platform talks about Bitcoin nodes and if they have any correlation with bitcoin price. The article titled “Bitcoin […]
2019-5-10 19:32 | |
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Chinese crypto exchange Binance suffered a major hack on Tuesday, which the company’s CEO responded to by proposing a rollback of the Bitcoin blockchain to rectify — a suggestion that riled up the community.
2019-5-8 21:39 | |
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On May 5, the Bitcoin network briefly boasted over 100,000 ‘full nodes,’ but most are still running out-of-date versions of the software. PSA: a lot of people believe there are about 10,000 Bitcoin nodes.
2019-5-6 15:01 | |
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For the impending release of Bitcoin Core, the new code will allow users to connect to bitcoin full nodes without requiring to use hardware wallets. Full nodes allow all users to verify transactions that took place of the blockchain, while hardware wallets such as Trezor are considered some of the safest options to use for […]
2019-4-9 17:41 | |
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The coming release of Bitcoin Core will finally, natively allow users to connect bitcoin full nodes to hardware wallets.
2019-4-9 00:30 | |
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The coming release of Bitcoin Core will finally, natively allow users to connect bitcoin full nodes to hardware wallets.
2019-4-9 00:30 | |
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Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
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Since it came to life in early 2009, Bitcoin has begun disrupting the world of finance. Over the years, this decentralized digital currency came to mean different things for different people.
2019-2-18 18:30 | |
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Whilst debate raged throughout the Bitcoin community over whether the block size limit should be increased and how, Luke-jr for years stood out for arguing the exact opposite position.
2019-2-15 19:18 | |
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The Bitcoin network continues to rebound from recent activity slumps, its total node count reaching 65,000 with reachable nodes totalling over 10,000. Technical ‘BUIDLout’ Continues Data from Earn.
2019-1-18 05:00 | |
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Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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NEO is a public blockchain launched in 2014 under the original moniker Antshares. A long-held criticism of the blockchain has been that at its core, NEO is still a centralized platform. Of the network’s seven consensus nodes, the NEO Foundation owns five.
2018-12-22 19:21 | |
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Minisketch is a new solution that’s trying to solve an old problem. Spearheaded by Blockstream co-founder Pieter Wuille, Bitcoin Core contributor and fellow Blockstream co-founder Gregory Maxwell, and Blockstream software engineer Gleb Naumenko, the open-source initiative is designed to achieve set reconciliation between the mempools of each full node.
2018-12-18 18:48 | |
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In order to help more people understand “the other Casper” (Vlad Zamfir’s CBC Casper), and specifically the instantiation that works best for blockchain protocols, I thought that I would write an explainer on it myself, from a less abstract and more “close to concrete usage” point of view.
2018-12-6 04:03 | |
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Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.
2018-12-5 23:23 | |
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Bitcoin Public Full Node Count Crosses 10,000 For The First Time Since March Data from Coin Dance currently shows that the number of bitcoin public nodes is 10,055. Notably, the public notes have reached 5 digits for the first time since March 2018.
2018-11-21 20:45 | |
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New data released by Coin Dance this week shows that the number of bitcoin public nodes made a significant jump. The reported 10,094 public nodes places the total number back over 10,000 for the first time since March.
2018-11-20 20:00 | |
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An Alpha Proof Of Concept v0. 68 for the long-awaited Android Bitcoin Core (ABCore) was pre-released on Oct. 2, 2018. The project was initially conceived in 2016 and aims to allow every individual to run a Bitcoin full-node on their Android mobile phone.
2018-10-7 13:00 | |
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Today marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 17. 0, the 17th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost 10 years ago and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2018-10-3 16:28 | |
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Rebranded from RaiBlocks (XRB) to Nano (NANO) for a more friendly and easier to pronounce approach, the speedy coin has impressed the crypto-verse with its technological potential many times. The Core Team wanted a name that represented the simplicity and speed of the project, and Nano does just that.
2018-10-3 12:13 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-10-2 17:27 | |
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A week ago, Bitcoin developers disclosed a glaring vulnerability in the network that could’ve led to a series of abrupt chainsplits. Well, it appears this scenario has begun to play out. The good thing is that the incident took place on a controlled testnet, not the Bitcoin mainnet.
2018-9-27 18:01 | |
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More than a week after Bitcoin Core released a client update that addressed a denial-of-service vulnerability and consensus bug in its software, most nodes are still running old software. That’s a problem.
2018-9-27 20:15 | |
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On Tuesday last week, a dangerous bug was removed from the Bitcoin Core software—one that had lain undetected for eighteen months. If exploited, the bug would have allowed attackers to crash nodes on the network and potentially debase the currency.
2018-10-5 15:00 | |
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Bitcoin Core developers urged all nodes to implement a patch on Friday, September 21, in order to prevent the exploitation of a recently discovered bug in the Bitcoin protocol. The bug, called CVE-2018-17144, was originally reported to the Bitcoin Core team by Bitcoin Cash developer Awemany on September 17.
2018-9-23 14:00 | |
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Bitcoin Core developers acknowledged a potentially devastating vulnerability in the code of the original cryptocurrency and appealed to miners to upgrade to their newly issued patch with immediate effect.
2018-9-23 07:56 | |
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The cryptocurrency community was taken aback with shock when an anonymous user found a critical bug in the Bitcoin Core reference client. The bug was introduced into Bitcoin Core version 0. 14, which affects all versions released subsequently.
2018-9-23 19:59 | |
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