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EIP-7782 Reduce Block Latency designed to reduce Ethereum (ETH) block time by 50% origin »
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Cryptocurrencies displayed strength over the weekend as Bitcoin extended above $105,000 to press time’s $108,568. While altcoins brace for significant bounce-backs, BNB Chain will officially roll out the Maxwell hardfork today, June 30, 2025.
2025-6-30 08:30 | |
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BNB Chain is set to launch its most aggressive speed upgrade yet. To increase transaction throughput, improve validator performance, and enhance responsiveness, the network will implement the Maxwell hardfork on the mainnet on June 30. This will reduce block times…
2025-6-30 07:47 | |
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Key Takeaways: BNB Chain rolls out the Pascal hard fork with enhanced EVM compatibility. The next upgrades, Lorentz and Maxwell, will further reduce block times. This upgrade coincides with a The post BNB Chain Completes Upgrade and Launches Pascal Hard Fork: A New Era of EVM Compatibility and Speed appeared first on CryptoNinjas.
2025-3-24 15:17 | |
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Public blockchain network Zilliqa has activated a new mechanism that will see mining rewards halved for the next three months. On Oct. 14, the Zilliqa (ZIL) team announced that the proposal to reduce block rewards for miners by half has…
2024-10-14 17:13 | |
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If approved, EIP-7781 will reduce block times from 12 seconds to 8 seconds, increase blob capacity, and make decentralized exchanges slightly more efficient.
2024-10-7 05:14 | |
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As the cryptocurrency market anticipates the next Bitcoin (BTC) halving, a significant event meant to reduce the block reward and potentially increase the coin’s price, some are shifting focus.
2024-5-2 00:51 | |
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The Terra Luna Classic (LUNC) has passed the vital proposal to reduce the maximum block size. The LUNC community has supported the decision to decrease the block size to 2MB from 5MB to remove the dangers of peer-to-peer storm outbreaks within the ecosystem.
2024-4-22 12:03 | |
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Bitcoin Cash's mining reward per block has been reduced to 3.125. Spot ETF approvals might reduce the impact of BTC halving. In the buildup to the Bitcoin [BTC] halving, which is set to occuThe post Bitcoin Cash's halving - Identifying whether it will impact Bitcoin's future appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2024-4-5 23:00 | |
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Luminex, a Bitcoin Ordinals launchpad, has proposed a new standard called BRC-69, which will allegedly optimize the costs of inscribing on this network. This proposal comes barely a month after Bitcoin Ordinals’ developers introduced recursive inscriptions to address the block size limit of 4 MB.
2023-7-5 05:00 | |
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The next Litecoin halving is scheduled to occur on August 2, 2023, that’s barely 37 days to go from today. This event will reduce the block reward for Litecoin miners by 50%, from 12. 5 LTC to 6.
2023-6-26 09:45 | |
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The proof-of-stake network Algorand upgraded its platform on Thursday. It has introduced various improvements to ensure cost-efficient and quicker app development. The latest network update will significantly reduce block time.
2023-6-22 17:40 | |
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Klaytn network’s KLAY is up more than 30% to $0.2055, making it one of the best-performing digital assets this week, according to CryptoSlate data. The post Klaytn pumps after proposal to reduce block rewards passes appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-10-25 11:45 | |
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Buterin issued a decrease-cost-and-cap proposal that aims to reduce unprecedented levels of strain and risk breaking the network.
2021-11-29 10:55 | |
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The new EIP-2878 would reduce block rewards by 75% and has received sharp criticism from miners who say it will compromise the network’s security.
2020-8-21 06:34 | |
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For the top two coins, i. e. Bitcoin and Ethereum, there is a lot at stake over the next few months. For the world's largest cryptocurrency, the third block reward halving is slated to happen soon and The post Ethereum 2.
2020-4-30 15:00 | |
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According to a site called Crypto 51, the cost for staging a 51% attack on PoW coins is a lot lower than you think. In fact, right now, the cost per hour for wiping out Bitcoin Cash is just $9,130.
2020-4-11 14:20 | |
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Bitcoin is fast approaching the much-awaited halving event, but its main forks will start first. BCH will reduce its block reward today, while BSV will do this later this week. BCH, BSV Price Hit 1-Month High The Bitcoin community is preparing for one of the most important events that takes place once every three or four years – the halving.
2020-4-8 11:53 | |
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Technicals for both the ETC/USD and ETC/BTC pairs suggest the potential for an early bearish trend. Until spot prices are once again above both the 200-day EMA and Cloud for both pairs, a bearish trend is more likely than a bullish trend.
2020-3-13 14:01 | |
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Coinspeaker Gold Beware as Bitcoin Halving Is Just 90 Days AwayBitcoin halving, gold and scarcity: as the milestone approaches, it will reduce Bitcoin's block reward to 6,25 BTC per the block.
2020-2-10 17:20 | |
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Bitcoin will undergo its third halving event to date this May. The supply of new BTC released to miners with each block will reduce by half to 6. 25 BTC. The impact of the event has been the source of much debate in the industry.
2020-1-24 01:00 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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Special thanks to the Plasma Group team for review and feedback Current approaches to layer 2 scaling - basically, Plasma and state channels - are increasingly moving from theory to practice, but at the same time it is becoming easier to see the inherent challenges in treating these techniques as a fully fledged scaling solution for Ethereum.
2019-9-2 04:03 | |
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Litecoin, the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is struggling to maintain its interim bullish bias after reducing its mining rewards by half. The LTC/USD instrument earlier today established a local high of 107.
2019-8-6 22:35 | |
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The next Bitcoin (BTC) halving which will reduce the block rewards for mining to just 6.25 BTC is exactly… The post Bitcoin Halving Exactly a Year From Now – What Does It Mean for Investors? appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-5-22 08:51 | |
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Tether, a stablecoin tied to the dollar that is meant to mediate the volatility of other cryptocurrencies, is partly backed by bitcoin. As detailed in court documents obtained by The Block, Tether admitted to using some of the cash reserves meant to back its stablecoin to purchase bitcoin, among other assets.
2019-5-22 23:02 | |
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To date, Bitcoin Cash is the most popular outcome of the 2017 Bitcoin hard fork. The crypto was created with the aim of increasing the block size of Bitcoin and to give room for more transactions within each block.
2019-5-13 14:31 | |
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Per an official announcement, the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini Trust has confirmed full integration of Segregated Witness (SegWit) addresses to its wallet infrastructure.
2019-4-17 19:07 | |
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Last year, the narrative was that institutional money was going to wrest cryptocurrencies from bears’ grasps. This year, it seems that investors are latching onto the impending Bitcoin (BTC) block reward reduction (halving), which will reduce natural selling pressure on the crypto market.
2019-3-28 16:29 | |
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The UK’s “porn block” or porn ban is an epic violation of privacy and data harvesting. It’s also doomed to fail and will lead to high-profile sexual extortion. Let’s back up. If you haven’t heard of the UK’s porn block, you’re not alone.
2019-3-20 17:36 | |
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Сообщество приверженцев Bitcoin взбудоражено тем, что один из ключевых технических специалистов блокчейна криптовалюты, Люк Даш (младший) намерен «подправить» сеть. There is never any guarantee. We need to reduce the block size just to have a *realistic hope* of it remaining feasible and *becoming practical again*.
2019-2-15 13:28 | |
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Bitcoin prices bullish and ranging Proposal to slash block size to 300kb resuscitated Transactional volumes low but likely to expand as BTC demand pick up Luke J is putting forth a bid to reduce block size from 1MB to 300kb.
2019-2-13 20:00 | |
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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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XRP has reclaimed the position of the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap from ETH just days before Ethereum’s ‘Constantinople’ hard-fork upgrade. Pre-Fork Drop On January 16th, Ethereum is scheduled to undergo a network-wide system update called ‘Constantinople’.
2019-1-15 02:00 | |
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With the upcoming Ethereum hard fork called Constantinople, block rewards will reduce from 3 ETH to 2 ETH, making mining Ether less profitable. ConsenSys, one of the biggest players in the Ethereum ecosystem, recently discussed the implications of the hard fork on their blog.
2019-1-11 20:29 | |
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Ethereum (ETH) is going to experience a new hard fork as soon as January 16. This network upgrade is called Constantinople and is expected to reduce block rewards for miners from 3 ETH to 2 ETH. The upgrade is very important for the Ethereum community and is an important path towards Proof-of-Stake (PoS) from Proof-of-Work […]
2019-1-7 19:00 | |
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In August 2017, the controversy over Bitcoin’s scalability issues led to its blockchain being split for the first time in history, resulting in its first hard fork — Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Bitcoin Cash was a cryptocurrency with a purpose.
2018-12-24 13:19 | |
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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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The lowered reward for the 101 block producers in Lisk platform will reduce the planned inflation. One of the most important circulated proof-of-stake networks, Lisk (LSK), has attained a reward-halving date.
2018-11-2 22:00 | |
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Qtum has proposed a new consensus algorithm, called SCAR, that could massively reduce transaction times. It would additionally lighten demands on the blockchain’s underlying network. “SCAR can find a balance between user experience and resource saving, which is more efficient and flexible than other consensus algorithms,” reads the proposal.
2018-10-18 21:59 | |
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Several Chinese researchers from Fudan University, Tsinghua University and the University of California Riverside have produced the first systematic study of the malicious mining of cryptocurrencies, known as cryptojacking, unveiling increasing complexity over time.
2018-9-25 23:59 | |
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Ethereum is embracing the Constantinople milestone at the end of November 2018, after DevCon4 in Prague. Constantinople is the latest Ethereum release, introduced through a hard fork, that will include five Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs):Bitwise shifting instructions (EIP 145) in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) allow for direct manipulation of bytes on the EVM layer.
2018-9-11 18:15 | |
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EOS block producers have elected to change the requirements for creating an account, claiming the new rules will reduce costs by 25 percent.
2018-9-8 00:04 | |
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On August 31, 2018, the Ethereum team announced the delay of Casper’s development for 12 months to reduce block rewards and maintain stability. The Decision There is much to be said about the development of Ethereum, and it’s a constant struggle to reach consensus when it comes to deciding the way progress is heading.
2018-9-5 01:00 | |
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Ethereum developers have decided to delay the “Difficulty Bomb” by agreeing to include the code for such a change into Metropolis’ hard fork—Constantinople. The core developers decided on a video call, streamed live on YouTube on August 31, 2018, to accept the EIP-1234 scenario for the “Difficulty Bomb’s” impact on block rewards.
2018-9-4 16:32 | |
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The ETH miner community has called this decision a conservative choice but developers say that after seeing the perceived outcomes of this update, they would further decide on it in the next hard fork.
2018-9-1 12:45 | |
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Ethereum developers were in general agreement during a livestreamed meeting today to reduce block rewards from 3eth to 2eth. Around 15 developers took part in this special meeting on issuance. . .
2018-9-1 17:54 | |
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The latest core devs’ meeting centered around various Ethereum Improvement Proposals to reduce or maintain block rewards distributed to miners. ETHNews attempts to clear up the mud surrounding the discussion.
2018-8-28 02:23 | |
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Ethereum is paying miners around $2.5 billion a year at current prices while its market cap stands at $32 billion. Including the block base reward, uncles rewards, and mining fees,... The post Ethereum Paying Nearly 10% of Its Market Cap to Miners, Holders Vote to Reduce it By Two Thirds appeared first on Trustnodes.
2018-8-13 20:01 | |
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Eight months after presenting a case for Graphene as a solution to the bitcoin cash blockchain’s scalability issue, Bitcoin Unlimited has unveiled its block compression utility that takes care of excessive blockchain bandwidth usage.
2018-7-30 02:00 | |
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