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AntPool recently mined seven consecutive Bitcoin blocks, highlighting concerns about centralization in the Bitcoin network. The post AntPool’s Streak of 7 Consecutive Blocks Sparks Centralization Fears in Bitcoin Mining appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2024-5-20 15:28 | |
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Bitcoin mining pools rely on centralization, but P2Pool and other protocols have sought to reduce the need for trust in third parties.
2022-2-26 16:00 | |
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The ability to 51% attack Bitcoin indicates that it’s decentralized. It’s impossible to fix this vulnerability without adding centralization, argued Litecoin founder Charlie Lee and Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell.
2019-10-7 07:35 | |
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Bitcoin is the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency which initially reared its shiny head into digital markets now way back in 2009. While regular currencies have a centralized authority which controls and prints them, Bitcoin was imagined as a community controlled currency that won’t have a single entity looming over it.
2019-10-5 15:35 | |
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One of NEO’s competitive advantages over Bitcoin and Ethereum is its ‘pragmatic’ approach toward centralization, argues founder Da Hongfei. Leveraging centralization One of NEO’s main criticisms is its centralization, both politically and architecturally.
2019-10-1 22:27 | |
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Distributed Computing Lab (DCL) has developed a radically innovative cryptocurrency that secures a network without centralization and emits a tiny fraction of carbon dioxide relative to that of Bitcoin (BTC).
2019-9-30 15:00 | |
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Bitcoin was brought to life so that the general public or any person could opt to transact by not relying on intermediaries or the government, or at least that’s what we think Satoshi Nakamoto intended when he invented Bitcoin.
2019-9-28 16:30 | |
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In this series on Bitcoin and money, Crypto Briefing takes a deep dive into the complexities of the modern monetary system and how Bitcoin, as the ultimate hard money, can serve as a solution to many of its problems.
2019-9-16 22:29 | |
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Facebook’s Libra Coin has been all over the news the past few months as more tech giants invest in the network. However, many people in the cryptocurrency community are skeptical about the new stable coin, saying that Libra doesn’t have the properties that made Bitcoin what it is today.
2019-9-15 12:00 | |
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You can’t really discuss the topic of cryptocurrency mining without getting into issues surrounding the concept of centralization. One of the greatest aspirations of cryptocurrency communities is to decentralize the monetary system and create “trustless” transactions.
2019-9-2 14:11 | |
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The Lightning Network has been subject to controversy since it’s rise to prominence in 2016. Championed as BTC’s solution to scaling, thousands of people in the Bitcoin community voiced their opinions on how it wouldn’t work.
2019-8-25 23:51 | |
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Bitcoin does not have a wealth distribution problem after all, another expert has said as the debate continues to mushroom within the industry. BTC Ownership ‘Seems Balanced’ In a tweet August 15, Gabor Gurbacs, digital asset strategist and director at investment management giant VanEck, took claims the Bitcoin supply was centralized to task.
2019-8-15 17:00 | |
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Bitcoin Cash spin-off, Bitcoin SV (BSV), is preparing to stage its own hard fork to allow for giant blocks of transactions weighing in at up to 2 gigabytes. Bitcoin SV: Blockchain Reorgs ‘Original Feature’ On July 24, the altcoin known as Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision will carry out a protocol upgrade dubbed ‘Quasar.
2019-7-23 19:00 | |
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Facebook has reportedly enlisted the help of industry heavyweights to support its up and coming crypto asset. This, it hopes, will answer concerns over privacy and centralization. The list of names includes Uber, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, and Booking.
2019-6-14 17:30 | |
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Weiss Ratings has downgraded their rating for EOS, citing concerns about centralization and the project’s lack of capability to fix these systemic issues, June 7, 2019. Cracking Down on EOS EOS has been the subject of intense debates within the crypto community.
2019-6-11 09:00 | |
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When Bitcoin was first brought to the table, it was a revolution in crypto and programming. Satoshi Nakamoto proposed the first digital asset that was decentralized, codable, and not tied to any traditional asset.
2019-6-10 03:16 | |
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By CCN Markets: Weiss Crypto Ratings on Friday announced that it is downgrading the technology score of EOS, a blockchain protocol developed and distributed by Block. one. The US-based economic research agency said EOS has “serious problems with centralization,” three months after it put the project among the top three blockchains alongside Ripple and Bitcoin.
2019-6-9 14:17 | |
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Bitcoin, the number one cryptocurrency in the sector by market cap, almost always steals the spotlight from all the other altcoins. Since April, when the crypto market began to break out of the bear market that plagued it for months, Bitcoin initially began the surge and seemed to pull up all the other coins along […] The post Centralization: Weiss Ratings Downgrades EOS, Cites Cardano As A Better Option appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2019-6-8 17:50 | |
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Apart from PoW-based digital coins such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, another token- EOS network’s centralization has always been debated. The highly publicized centralization problem has led many in the community to believe that decentralization is not EOS’s “top priority”.
2019-6-8 16:30 | |
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On May 15, 2019, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) implemented a system upgrade designed to support a number of scaling solutions. Shortly after the fork, there appeared to be a power struggle between miners looking to recuperate lost BCH, which became spendable after the upgrade.
2019-6-8 06:00 | |
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The anonymous cryptocurrency Monero plans to carry out a hard fork to make the network resistant to ASIC miners in an attempt to promote network decentralization. The erstwhile Cryptonight algorithm is likely to be removed in favor of RandomX to keep mining centralization at bay, June 4, 2019.
2019-6-4 17:00 | |
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Bitcoin SV has been considered to be the fork of Bitcoin Cash they have just gone ahead to set up the Scaling Test Network, STN. One that has been explicitly being designed to test the on-chain scaling for the large blocks in the network. And in the latest update, it has been able to act […]
2019-5-24 02:27 | |
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Bitcoin SV, the fork of Bitcoin Cash, has set up an STN [Scaling Test Network], specifically intended to test on-chain scaling for large blocks, which also acts as a standard network in the latest update of Bitcoin SV.
2019-5-23 17:00 | |
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To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
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NEO has made clear its intentions to take on Bitcoin and Ethereum. The asset is currently working on increasing speed and scalability with the planned upgrade to a centralized blockchain. According to NEO founders, the centralization of its blockchain will bring speed and scalability needed to power transactions on the network.
2019-5-18 09:19 | |
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Bitcoin has more full nodes than XRP has active addresses, observed one crypto commentator. The conversation is part of a larger debate around centralization and other fundamental differences between BTC and XRP which make them difficult to compare.
2019-5-6 00:09 | |
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When the whole concept of Bitcoin came into the industry ten years ago, the world believed that Satoshi held a victory that Cypherpunks could not claim, making an opportunity for decentralization. The goal was to reduce the interactions with centralization and censorship, focusing on the financial freedom afforded by decentralization. Bitcoin made it possible to […]
2019-4-22 20:10 | |
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Satoshi succeeded where Cypherpunks failed [or did they?], he made it so that we would be free from the clutches of centralization and move towards something better – decentralization. The Ethos of Bitcoin or its underlying technology was to move away from centralization and censorship and towards decentralization, where transactions wouldn’t be censored, and people […] The post Is the crypto community truly moving towards decentralization? Or is it just a pipe dream? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-4-21 16:30 | |
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The political spectrum is usually divided into four main categories: libertarian left, authoritarian left, libertarian right and authoritarian right. Those on the left prefer a more controlled economy, while those on the right have a preference for free markets.
2019-4-16 22:26 | |
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Bitmain announced its next-generation of mining ASICs for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and other SHA256 coins. The growing difficulty in manufacturing these computer chips raise concerns around network decentralization for these cryptocurrencies.
2019-3-30 05:04 | |
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Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems.
2019-3-23 17:29 | |
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One of the most important narratives in the crypto space has been its stand against centralization. In today’s globalized economy, where different cultures and ethnicities rapidly consolidate around the same interests in technology, social media, and free services, there is an alarming sense that Internet use is becoming more centralized, which gives birth to technologyRead MoreRead More.
2019-3-20 18:00 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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The level of centralization in mining is one of the more credible problems with Bitcoin today. While there has not been much activity in terms of actual attacks made possible through mining centralization (although some would refer to SegWit2x as an attack), it does add questions to the level of security offered by various layer-two […] The post BetterHash Can Improve Bitcoin Mining Decentralization, But When? appeared first on Coinjournal.
2019-3-12 16:15 | |
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There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization. ” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology.
2019-3-1 19:43 | |
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An unidentified hacker on February 22, 2019, made away with 2. 09 million EOS worth about $7. 7 million after a new active EOS Block Producer failed to update the mainnet account blacklist – typically, a decentralized platform should not be vulnerable to a single point of failure – but EOS seems to be wired in aRead MoreRead More.
2019-3-1 14:00 | |
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In January of 2019, student Conner Brown attended a guest lecture by a Professor Susan Athey at the University of Stanford Graduate School. She gave a presentation to his “Evolution of Finance” class titled “Blockchain and the Future of Finance.
2019-3-1 03:39 | |
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As if Bitmain’s year hasn’t been rough enough, having posted big losses and laying off entire departments, its flagship product now has a firmware vulnerability. A few weeks ago, Bitcoin Core contributor James Hilliard discovered an exploit in Bitmain’s S15 firmware.
2019-2-21 23:44 | |
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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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When it comes down to the unstable economy of the entire globe, that has largely been built on centralization, it remains undeniable that the vast majority is losing trust for this system of finance.
2019-2-7 09:56 | |
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It happened: Bitcoin is now an Ethereum token. Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), an ERC-20 token with a 1-1 peg to bitcoin, went live on the Ethereum network on the final day of January, “the first token that makes Bitcoin compatible with the Ethereum chain,” its architects say.
2019-2-2 00:04 | |
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Latest Tron News What we can authoritatively say is that, Bitcoin—despite its scalability issues and centralization—is king. Therefore, as a market leader, when it coughs, altcoins do get a cold.
2019-1-24 14:00 | |
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One problem that concerns many is the centralization of mining within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Fortunately, there are talented developers working to solve this problem and Matt Corallo, full-time Bitcoin developer at Chaincode Labs, is one of them.
2019-1-26 23:50 | |
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Whenever I claim that bitcoin is the only decentralized cryptocurrency, I get one of two arguments:My X coin is also decentralized. Bitcoin isn’t decentralized because of Core and/or miners.
2019-1-21 21:52 | |
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In today’s roundup of crypto chatter, Luke Dash Jr. voices concerns that segwit is bad for BTC because it leads to centralization. Also, Brad Mills shares his insight after using Cointext. Lastly, Lawson Baker, Blake Moore and Andreas Brekken discuss how regulation affects stablecoins.
2019-1-19 10:05 | |
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The Lightning Network has been touted as the solution to the Bitcoin Core (BTC) network’s scalability problem for years now. Over the last few months, the Lightning Network has shown growth but there are still significant concerns about centralization, routing issues, and creating a usable mainstream-friendly interface.
2019-1-18 07:25 | |
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The blockchain-powered blogging platform Steemit is being accused of centralization and censorship. On Jan. 7, 2019, the hacker group The Dark Overlord had its account banned from Steemit by a developer known as ‘Jredbeard’ for violating the company’s terms of service agreement.
2019-1-10 03:20 | |
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Bitcoin is the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency which initially reared its shiny head into digital markets now way back in 2009. While regular currencies have a centralized authority which controls and prints them, Bitcoin was imagined as a community controlled currency that won’t have a single entity looming over it.
2019-1-2 18:22 | |
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Against Bitcoin, ICO tokens and altcoins battle with centralization, says developer Jimmy Song
2019-1-1 12:31 | |
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DeepHash leads 2025 cloud mining with renewable energy farms, AI optimized yields, fast daily payouts, and the highest earning short term contracts.
JPMorgan upgraded Cipher and CleanSpark, and cut targets for MARA, RIOT due to the increased risk of shareholder dilution. Bitcoin miners are increasingly diversifying their operations from hashrate to high-performance computing.
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin-miner Bitmain Faces Federal Investigation Over National Security Issues: Report Bitmain, the Chinese manufacturer behind many of the world’s Bitcoin miners, has been under US national security scrutiny for potential espionage or sabotage risks, including in Trump family-backed ventures, though the company denies any wrongdoing.
Hive Digital stock jumped by over 500% from its April low to its October high; it pivoted to AI and HPC industries. But its Bitcoin mining revenue is still strong.
Bitcoin crossed a watershed moment in its monetary history on Nov. 17, surpassing 19. 95 million mined coins and pushing the network past 95% of its immutable 21 million supply cap. This leaves the network with less than 1.
Cloud mining beats solo mining as Bitcoin climbs, and GBC Mining offers a $20 bonus plus instant hash power for daily BTC earnings with no hardware needed.
Power markets are starting to price Bitcoin mining that can switch on and off as a grid service. Curtailment remains elevated in regions with high renewable penetration, and short scarcity bursts continue to set value for fast demand reduction, which creates room for load that soaks midday surplus and idles during tight hours.