Facebook’s Crypto Testnet Averages 6 Transactions Per Second 

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Bitcoin as Money Is About Value Transfer Per Second, not TPS: Blockstream CEO

While Bitcoin (BTC) facilitates far fewer transactions per second than altcoins, one BTC proponent says the important consideration is the value transfer happening per second (VTPS) and not the nominal transaction throughput (transactions per second — TPS).

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Bitcoin Hash Rate Hit a New ATH, And It’s Crucial Leading Up to Halving

The Bitcoin network hash rate has reached an all-time high at 126 quintillion hashes per second. By comparison, this time last year, the network was hashing at just 38 quintillion hashes per second.

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Dragonchain test demo hits 15,000 transactions per second on its public network

“Enterprise-first” blockchain platform Dragonchain clocked a peak performance of 15,000 transactions per second in a 24-hour performance demonstration Thursday, as reported by the company’s official Twitter account.

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Dragonchain test demo hits 15,000 transactions per second

“Enterprise-first” blockchain platform Dragonchain clocked a peak performance of 15,000 transactions per second in a 24-hour performance demonstration Thursday, as reported by the company’s official Twitter account.

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Bitcoin Hashrate at ATH, but Prices May Be Unaffected

The Bitcoin hashrate recently hit new all-time highs (ATHs) over 119 Exa hashes per second (EH/s). This is equivalent to 1230 zettaFLOPS per second. The #Bitcoin hashrate has hit a new all time high of 119,354,000 Th/s.

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BTC’s Hashrate Touches 120 Exahash, But the Price Has Not Followed

On January 1, the BTC network hashrate touched an all-time high at close to 120 exahash per second (EH/s). Despite the crypto market lull and lower BTC prices, the 2020 milestone happened just before the blockchain’s 11th anniversary.

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Bitcoin's thermodynamic security rose by 2,051 GH/s^2 in 2019: Casa CTO

In a recent tweet, Casa CTO Jameson Lopp reported that the network hashrate for Bitcoin had increased by 162% over the course of 2019, from 38 to more than 100 exahashes per second. While price fluctuThe post Bitcoin's thermodynamic security rose by 2,051 GH/s^2 in 2019: Casa CTO appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Barcelona and Real Madrid Are the Best-Paid Teams, Shows Sporting Intelligence Survey

Coinspeaker Barcelona and Real Madrid Are the Best-Paid Teams, Shows Sporting Intelligence SurveyAccording to Sporting Intelligence survey, Barcelona players earn $12. 8 million per year, which allows it to retain the status of the best-paid team for the second year in a row.

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Mining Report Shows 65% of Bitcoin’s Hashpower Stems From China

As the end of 2019 approaches, Coinshares Research has published its bi-annual mining report that contains informative research and observations about the bitcoin mining industry. Since Coinshare’s last report published in June, BTC’s hashrate grew by 50 exahash per second (EH/s) and the firm believes a decent portion of the power stems from China.

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Ethereum could soon enable thousands of transactions per second

Over the weekend, Ethereum went through a significant software upgrade, dubbed Istanbul. The hardfork brought several improvements to the network. And, it allowed the integration of a second layer scaling solution that promises to enable more than 3,000 transactions per second (TPS) while maintaining decentralization and privacy.

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A Bitcoin Wallet Is Orbiting the Earth at 5 Miles Per Second

Bitcoin is flying (super) high thanks to SpaceChain's new space-based wallet.

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Tron (TRX) Comes First After Bitcoin in Recent Crypto Twitter Discussions: Report

As per the report, the crypto community loves Tron?s TRX nearly as much as Bitcoin ? in a research by Cointrend, Tron comes second after BTC in recent Twitter discussions

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VertCoin Witnesses Second 51 Percent Attack in One Year Span

Less than a year after a block reorg that caused $100,000 worth of double-spending, VertCoin has seen yet another 51 percent attack where 603 blocks were reorganized on the chain. As per Crypto Briefing, a mere 125 BTC, worth $29, was sent to the hacker’s wallet, but the larger implications of this show that theRead MoreRead More.

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How Many Trades Do Crypto Exchanges Actually Process?

How many trades are actually processed per month, day, second on crypto exchanges? The answer is anybody’s guess, because no matter how many times CoinMarketCap, or other aggregate platforms, adjusts its figures, we’re always left with serious doubts.

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Second Largest Australian Bank Broke AML Laws More Than 23 Million Times

Westpac, Australia’s second-largest bank, violated money laundering laws 23 million times and could be fined AUD21 million (US$15. 7 million) per breach. Westpac Banking Corp, the second-largest bank in Australia, currently faces multiple accusations.

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BVCI Launches Second Stablecoin, This Time USD-Pegged CUSD

On Monday, November 11, a Canadian blockchain firm, Blockchain Venture Capital Inc. (BVCI), announced the launch of their second stablecoin. It is called CUSD and it is pegged against the US dollar.

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Litecoin Hashrate Down 60%, But Mining Profitability Stabilizing

The after-effects of the latest block halving on the Litecoin network are in full swing with its hashrate falling by more than 60% since peaking in July. Litecoin’s second halving took place on Aug 5, when the mining reward per block dropped from 25 LTC to 12.

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XRP Volume Lower Than EOS, Still in Top 3

Ripple’s XRP had a dismal year so far. Volumes reach around $1. 6 billion per day, a comparatively weak result for a top 3 coin. Low Volumes Among Top Coins XRP saw its volumes sink even below those of EOS, which trades at $2.

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Apple’s New AirPods Pro with Noise Cancellation Feature Go on Sale on October 30

Coinspeaker Apple’s New AirPods Pro with Noise Cancellation Feature Go on Sale on October 30According to Apple, the level of noise cancellation with new AirPods Pro is adjusted up to 200 times per second.

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Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3

Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released.

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Bitcoin Hash Rate Approaching 120,000,000 TH/s Amid Market Crash

The Bitcoin Network is about to reach another hash rate milestone despite BTC falling more than $500 in a single day. Network Fundamentals Improving Despite Price Drop Data from Blockchain. com shows the Bitcoin Network hash rate currently at 114 quintillion hashes per second (114 million tera hashes per second — TH/s).

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Bitcoin Hash Rate Has Stabilized at a Weekly Average of 100 Exahashes/Sec

Bitcoin has hit another milestone for its hashrate on the weekly average. The leading cryptocurrency’s hash rate now boasts a weekly average of over 100 exahashes per second. It’s said that the hash rate is one of the main metrics to judge a network’s security.

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4 New High-Powered Bitcoin Miners Revealed

Bitmain Technologies and Canaan Creative have announced new mining rigs that process roughly 58-73 terahash per second (TH/s). Sources also reveal that Canaan’s initial public offering (IPO) could be listed in the U.

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Silex Insight and Medium aim for 1 million blockchain verifications per second

Silex Insight and Medium aim for 1 million blockchain verifications per second - CryptoNinjas Silex Insight, a provider of security IP cores, and Medium Inc. , a Korean provider of blockchain and enterprise security solutions, today announced they’ve joined forces to deliver a blockchain platform with extremely high performance that can process more than 1 million signature verifications per second.

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5 Reasons to HODL Your Bitcoin Despite the Bearish Market

Forget the recent bearish momentum and Bakkt’s disappointing launch. Here are five reminders of why you should still be HODL’ing your Bitcoin. 1. More Secure Than Ever At the end of last month, despite an extended period of sideways trading, Bitcoin hit its first-ever 100 quintillion hash rate level.

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Eos (EOS) Price Prediction 2019 & 2020 – Future Forecast For EOS Price

EOS Intro EOS was published by software publisher Block. one and development is led by CTO Dan Larimer, who founded Steemit and BitShares. The project competes with other popular smart contract platforms such as Ethereum, NEO and Cardano.

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Binance Charity Foundation launches second impact token dedicated to the rehabilitation of refugees

Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has been in the news lately following several developments in its ecosystem. As per data gathered by CryptoCompare, the exchange has been dominating the crypto-exchange space for quite a while now, recording a massive $28.

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Hello Future - Is Hedera Hashgraph a blockchain killer?

Hedera Hashgraph is an enterprise-grade distributed ledger platform. After years of development, Hedera came out of stealth mode and launched the public beta of its mainnet in September. The Hedera team describes the Hashgraph as a 3rd generation public ledger (they refer to Bitcoin as 1st generation and Ethereum as 2nd generation).

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Vaultoro revamps interface, releasing Lightning-based tokenized gold

Vaultoro revamps interface, releasing Lightning-based tokenized gold - CryptoNinjas Vaultoro, the market’s first gold crypto-hedging solution since 2015, released today a revamped version of its commodities exchange based on a new C++ modular engine optimized for high-frequency trading, clocking up to 1.

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Vaultoro Presents a Revamped Interface and Will Soon Be Releasing a Lightning-based Tokenized Gold

Coinspeaker Vaultoro Presents a Revamped Interface and Will Soon Be Releasing a Lightning-based Tokenized GoldVaultoro releases today a revamped version of its commodities exchange based on a new C++ modular engine optimized for high-frequency trading, clocking up to 1.

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(ALGO) Algorand Price Prediction 2019 / 2020 (Updated 27 Sept. 19)

Algorand (ALGO) is a relatively new cryptocurrency, having been launched on June 19, 2019. The date marked the inaugural Algo auction, which sold out in less than four hours. The platform exceeds 1000 transactions per second and has a latency of fewer than five seconds.

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Understanding PLONK

Special thanks to Justin Drake, Karl Floersch, Hsiao-wei Wang, Barry Whitehat, Dankrad Feist, Kobi Gurkan and Zac Williamson for review Very recently, Ariel Gabizon, Zac Williamson and Oana Ciobotaru announced a new general-purpose zero-knowledge proof scheme called PLONK, standing for the unwieldy quasi-backronym “Permutations over Lagrange-bases for Oecumenical Noninteractive arguments of Knowledge”.

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Hedera Hashgraph sacrifices decentralization for high throughput, says developer

Hedera Hashgraph could be making fundamental tradeoffs to achieve its touted 10,000+ transactions per second. These tradeoffs make it one of the most centralized networks on the market, argues well-known crypto developer Eric Wall.

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Bitcoin hash rate hits new all time-high as mining hardware continues to join the network

Fundamental indicators show strong growth on the Bitcoin network. The two-week average hash rate reached a record high of 99 exahashes per second on Monday, while the mining difficulty jumped to nearly 12 trillion.

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Bitcoin Investor: We’ll Never See $10K Again After Next Cycle Low

After a powerful parabolic rally in the second quarter of 2019, Bitcoin price is struggling to maintain the bullish momentum the crypto asset once had behind it and is currently consolidating in a tightening triangle formation.

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Bitcoin Hashrate Hits All-time High as Price Dwindles

The benchmark metric of miners confidence in the Bitcoin network established its all-time high on Thursday. Hashrate, which reflects the processing power of the Bitcoin network, reached almost 103 trillion ‘tera’ hashes per second.

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Hedera’s Performance Comes at the Expense of Decentralization, Skeptics Claim

US-based blockchain firm Hedera Hashgraph launched its mainnet on Monday. Despite being supported by some large companies, skeptics say its blockchain version lacks key features that ensure decentralization.

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EOS: Ethereum Killer or Hype Beast?

EOS first mustered attention in the crypto space when they claimed they could process nearly 4,000 transactions per second, which would eventually scale up millions. Moreover, it was the third network set up by Dan Larimer, who has developed a reputation for launching initial coin offerings (ICOs) and moving on to another project with hisRead MoreRead More.

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Bitcoin ‘s Blockchain Stronger Than Ever, to See Historic Milestone Of 100 EH/s as 500,000 ASICs Go Live

The hash rate of Bitcoin (BTC) has finally reached a historic new high: 100 quintillion hashes per second (EH/s). This large number was never before reached in the history of the token, which shows that there are now more miners in the market than ever before.

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Will Bitcoin Mining Confidence Cause A BTC Price Spike To $28k?

Data from blockchain. com shows Bitcoin’s hash rate is at all-time-high. Last week, it peaked at 98. 5 quintillion hashes per second. In addition, according to the mining pool, BTC. com, mining difficulty is also at its highest ever level at 11.

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Aventus Releases Blockchain Ticketing Protocol

Aventus has announced the release of Aventus Classic, a decentralized open-source protocol for the ticketing industry. With a transaction speed of 100 tickets per second on a public blockchain, the project seeks to establish a new standard for the exchange of tickets without relying on layer-2 solutions.

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Bitmain Launches Next Gen Miner as Bitcoin Hashrate Touches 100 Exahash

Last Thursday the China-based mining rig manufacturer Bitmain announced the launch of two new Antminers that offer hashrates between 53 to 64 terahash per second (TH/s). When the Antminer sale started on Monday, first batch devices sold extremely fast and Bitmain expects to deliver units by mid-November.

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Ethereum's Potential is 'Exciting' and It Will 'Ultimately Succeed', Analyst Says

Ethereum has been at the center of controversy as of late due to its scalability issue. At its current iteration, the number two cryptocurrency can only process 15 transactions per second. With over 2,500 decentralized applications (DApps) and more than 16,000 daily users, the network is struggling to keep up with the demand.

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Bitcoin Hash Rate Nearing 100,000,000 TH/s In Historic First

Bitcoin is about to set yet another record as its network’s hash rate explodes in power, despite price trading sideways.   Bitcoin Sets New Record Data from monitoring resource Blockchain. com confirms an exciting new trend for Bitcoin’s hashrate, which at press time stood at an all-time high of 94 quintillion hashes per second (h/s).

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Arbitrum, an Ethereum Scaling Solution, Completes 500 Transactions Per Second in Alpha Test

The development of scalability solutions for legacy blockchains (Bitcoin and Ethereum) is key to enhance mass adoption of these blockchains and cryptocurencies. Offchain Labs, an Ethereum based scaling solution for permissionless blockchains, successfully released the alpha test of its Arbitrum code compiler.

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Coinbase invests in Offchain Labs’ layer 2 solution; claims to process 500+ transactions per second

The crypto ecosystem has successfully leveraged a partnership-driven approach to gain mainstream attention, with exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance primarily fueling the initiatives. Moreover, Coinbase seems to have taken the lead in this regard, as the decentralized applications company Offchain Labs announced investment from Coinbase Ventures, the investment arm of Coinbase.

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Offchain Labs launches Alpha of scaling solution; Coinbase invests

Offchain Labs launches Alpha of scaling solution; Coinbase invests - CryptoNinjas Offchain Labs, led by a former White House Deputy Chief of Technology and a team of U. S. -based academics, has announced the successful release of the Alpha version of its open-source Arbitrum code capable of supporting thousands of simultaneous Ethereum contracts each of which can process over 500 transactions per second.

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Coinbase Invests In Offchain Labs’ Blockchain Scaling Solution

Offchain Labs, a New Jersey-based project developing a scaling solution for permissionless blockchains, has announced the successful Alpha release of its Arbitrum code. The company claims that the new system is capable of supporting more than 500 transactions per second, making it many times faster than Ethereum.

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