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5 Mining Pools Dominated in 2023, Discovering Over 84% of Bitcoin’s Blocks
31.12.2023
Over the past year, statistics reveal that 54,002 bitcoin blocks have been mined from Dec. 30, 2022, to Dec. 30, 2023. Leading the industry this year, Foundry USA topped the charts by mining 16,492 blocks in the past 12 months. Additionally, miners navigated through a total of 27 difficulty...
Ethereum L2 Starknet aims to decentralize core components of its scaling network
16.11.2023
Starknet has laid out its road map to begin decentralizing core components of its Ethereum layer 2 scaling network to defend against censorship and improve robustness
Bitcoin Miners Navigate Record Challenges and August’s Dual Difficulty Hike
23.8.2023
Bitcoin miners faced another uphill battle this month, marking the second straight increase in mining difficulty. On August 22, at block height 804,384, the difficulty surged by 6.17%. This fresh peak in Bitcoin’s difficulty sets a new record, intensifying the challenge for miners...
Report: Cryptopunks and Blue Chips Power Top NFT Traders to Over $300 Million in Profits
8.8.2023
The top 15 traders in the Ethereum non-fungible token (NFT) market have amassed up to $101.6 million in profits, as revealed in Coingecko’s latest NFT report. These traders lucratively capitalized on early investments in esteemed blue-chip NFT collections such as Cryptopunks, Bored Ape Yacht...
Bitcoin Mining in July: $844.56 Million in Revenue, Dominance of Top Pools, and Fluctuating Difficulty Levels
1.8.2023
As per the data compiled for the month of July, bitcoin miners discovered a total of 4,366 blocks, collectively accruing approximately $844.56 million in block rewards and fees. This figure marks an estimated increase of $60.8 million from the previous month. July’s Bitcoin Mining Landscape:...
Australia's Bendigo Bank blocks high-risk payments to crypto exchanges
31.7.2023
Chainalysis policy lead Chengyi Ong warned crypto users may eventually have no choice but to deal with offshore unregulated exchanges
Bitcoin Network’s High Difficulty Levels Poised to Ease Amid Longer Block Intervals
24.7.2023
Upon achieving an unprecedented all-time high on July 11, 2023, soaring to a staggering 53.91 trillion, Bitcoin’s difficulty is poised to decline by an estimated range of 3.9% to 4.04% come July 26, 2023. Block generation periods have been lagging behind their typical ten-minute average...
Bitcoin block 800,000 mined — What’s next?
24.7.2023
Tick tock, next block. The Bitcoin network passed block 800,000 with less than a year to go to the next block reward halving
Another Big 4 Australian Bank Blocks Payments to ‘High-Risk’ Crypto Exchanges
19.7.2023
National Australia Bank (NAB) has joined other major lenders in the country in blocking payments to some cryptocurrency exchanges. The banking institution said it’s introducing new customer protections regarding financial transactions with certain scam-related crypto platforms. Australia’s NAB Bank...
Digital Art Platform Prohibition Taps Arbitrum to Democratize Generative Art
18.7.2023
Created by Web3 innovation studio Venture Punk, Prohibition allows any artist to create generative art on-chain, utilizing the Art Blocks Engine
Who Are the 81 Recipients of Snowfro’s Latest Squiggle Mint?
13.7.2023
The Art Blocks CEO isn’t selling a single one of his new NFTs. Instead, he’s giving them to individuals and communities that supported him and the platform’s genesis collection
Bitcoin Network Gears Up for Fourth Surge in Mining Difficulty Amid Record Highs and Unwavering Miners
19.6.2023
The Bitcoin network has witnessed a consecutive surge in mining difficulty during the past three retargets, and now a fourth increase is slated for June 27, 2023. The block generation time, averaging less than ten minutes, indicates that the difficulty is projected to climb by an estimated 2.1%...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Reaches Unprecedented Highs Amidst Challenging Market Conditions
14.6.2023
On Wednesday, June 14, 2023, at block height 794,304, the Bitcoin network recorded its third consecutive mining difficulty increase since May 18. The mining difficulty climbed by 2.18%, bringing the overall difficulty to another unprecedented high at 52.35 trillion. Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits...
Art Blocks Co-Founder Erick Calderon Uses Free Market Ideals to Defend NFT Royalties
26.4.2023
Erick Calderon, the co-founder of Art Blocks, tried to turn down the heat on the battle around non-fungible token (NFT) creator royalties at CoinDesk’s Consensus Festival. He made his own opinion on the matter clear, however: according to Calderon, royalties “let the creator keep creating.”
Hannah Siegel-Gardner: What's Next for NFTs?
17.4.2023
In a CoinDesk interview, Art Blocks’ Chief Marketing Officer Hannah Siegel-Gardner takes us behind-the-scenes at a leading startup in the emerging field of generative art
Bitcoin Halving Approaches: Less Than 400 Days Until Block Reward Subsidy Is Cut in Half
29.3.2023
According to current statistics, the Bitcoin network is fewer than 56,000 blocks away and less than 400 days away from the next reward halving. After the next halving, the block reward will be reduced by 50%, and the current block subsidy of 6.25 bitcoins will drop to 3.125 bitcoins per block...
Bitcoin’s Blockchain Growth Accelerates With Trend of Ordinal Inscriptions
28.2.2023
The Bitcoin blockchain has 40.49 gigabytes (GB) to go until it reaches half a terabyte (TB), and with the recent trend of Ordinal inscriptions, it’s likely to get there faster. The average block size reached a high of 2.52 megabytes (MB) on Feb. 12, 2023, but block sizes have subsided...
Only 0.04% of Ethereum validators have been slashed since 2020, says core dev
23.2.2023
Only 226 validators have been slashed since Ethereum staking began, with 75 of those coming from one single event in Feb. 2021
Bitcoin Network Difficulty Expected to See Largest Increase of the Year Amid High Hashrate, Shorter Block Times
21.2.2023
After a small decrease of 0.49% on Feb. 12, 2023, Bitcoin’s network difficulty is expected to experience a significant increase in three days on Feb. 24. Estimates indicate the difficulty could see the largest rise of the year, surpassing the 10.26% increase that occurred on Jan. 15 at block...
Art Blocks and NFT Gallery Bright Moments Team Up to Bring Generative Art IRL
16.2.2023