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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. origin »
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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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Two of Bitcoin Cash’s leading personalities are debating whether to reduce BCH block times by a factor of 10. ViaBTC CEO Haipo Yang wrote online that Bitcoin Cash (BCH) block times should be reduced from 10 minutes to 1 minute to “improve user experience.
2018-7-25 10:07 | |
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Ethereum developers are proposing a reduction of block reward from 3 eth to 2 eth per block at the same time as a delay of the difficulty increase. Following a... The post Ethereum Proposal to Reduce Inflation by 33% in the Metropolis Upgrade appeared first on Trustnodes.
2018-7-20 17:02 | |
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Hong Kong’s de facto central bank will launch its own blockchain trade finance solution with 21 banks in August, Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday, July 15. The joint venture between the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Chinese company Ping An Group’s fintech subsidiary OneConnect aims to substantially reduce paperwork, costs security risks for participants, FT
2018-7-16 18:36 | |
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While price action has always been volatile and, arguably, exciting, the Bitcoin network itself is built to feel boring. Ten minutes per block, tick tock, rinse and repeat, a metronome you can set your watch to.
The euphoria of October’s record highs has evaporated, leaving the industrial backbone of the Bitcoin network facing a brutal reality check. According to CryptoSlate's data, Bitcoin is currently trading near $78,000, a level that represents a punishing decline of more than 38% from its all-time high of over $126,000 just four months ago.
Bitcoin supply guide: cost-basis bands, miner stress, and ETF flow signals Bitcoin is currently trading outside a $93,000–$110,000 cost-basis band that Glassnode frames as an “overhead supply” zone.
Bitcoin Magazine Trump Family-Backed American Bitcoin ($ABTC) Buys More Bitcoin, Holdings Reach 5,843 BTC American Bitcoin, a Trump-family-backed miner, has grown its bitcoin holdings to about 5,843 BTC, making it one of the largest corporate holders.
Kingsport City Board of Mayor and Aldermen has approved amendments to zoning rules that make it possible for cryptocurrency mining companies and data centers to operate locally, at a time when noise from such operations has become a contentious issue…
Bitcoin sentiment is stabilizing as prices recover. With hashrate value rebounding, mining regains focus, Anchor Mining users reportedly earned up to $4,535.
A single Bitcoin (BTC) miner collected a full block reward on Jan. 13, claiming 3. 125 BTC plus fees worth close to $300,000 at current prices. The win wasn't split among thousands of pool participants.
