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BitMEX Is Making Bitcoin Network More Expensive for Everyone, Researcher Finds

5.5.2020
Average fees paid by bitcoin users spike at a certain time every day due to the actions of one firm, derivatives exchange BitMEX, a researcher found

7 Days Left Until the Great Bitcoin Halving: Hashrate Jumps Over 140 Exahash, Miner’s Hoard

5.5.2020
Just recently the price of bitcoin jumped over the $9,000 per coin zone, but retracted back a hair not too long afterward. On May 3, the research and analysis firm Glassnode reported that the overall BTC hashrate touched another all-time high above 140 exahash per second. As miners continue to hash...

How Healthy Will the Bitcoin Network Be Post-halving?

29.4.2020
Johnson Xu is the Chief Analyst at TokenInsight, a token data and rating agency. _____ Bitcoin (BTC)’s third halving is now less than two weeks away, per most estimates. As such, the industry is curious to discover what will happen to the Bitcoin network in the wake of this long-awaited...

First Mover: Ether Trounces Bitcoin as Network See Surge in Stablecoins

27.4.2020
Ether is up more than 50 percent this year, outpacing bitcoin. Is this year's surge in stablecoin issuance playing a role?

The Many Facts Pointing to Wei Dai Being Satoshi

1.4.2020
Satoshi Nakamoto has been an enigma for well over a decade and there’s been a number of suspects and self-styled Bitcoin inventors. One particular suspect is the computer engineer Wei Dai, the creator of the b-money system and the Crypto++ cryptographic library. Since the Bitcoin network...

BitMEX Research Unveils Who Funds Bitcoin Network Development

29.3.2020
BitMEX research shows that blockchain firms Blockstream and Lightning Labs are the largest contributors to Bitcoin development

Bitcoin Hashrate Down 45% – Miners Witness Second-Largest Difficulty Drop in History

27.3.2020
Bitcoin’s hashrate has plummeted 45% since the record-breaking levels it saw on Feb. 29. The hashrate touched an all-time high of 136 exahash per second (EH/s) but has since dropped to 75 EH/s. Moreover, the crypto network has seen the second-largest difficulty drop since October 2011. Also...

A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words: 18 of the Coolest Visualizations for Exploring the Bitcoin Network

1.3.2020
Analyzing and exploring the Bitcoin blockchain is always interesting, but for the more abstract thinker, several sites provide unique looks at the network, nodes, and transaction data in easy to grok, visual fashion. Some of these even border on the psychedelic or sci-fi otherworldly, taking...

Wielding the Tools of Liberty: Exploring Wendy McElroy’s Latest Book ‘The Satoshi Revolution’

25.2.2020
When Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin network, not only was the protocol a breakthrough in computer science, but it transformed the way society perceives money, economics, and freedom. “The Satoshi Revolution” written by Wendy McElroy delves into the transformative technology...

Bitcoin Network SegWit Adoption Hits 66% After BitMEX Embraces Upgrade

5.1.2020
After BitMEX adoption, SegWit now accounts for around two-thirds of Bitcoin transactions, data suggests

A Deep Dive Into Satoshi’s 11-Year Old Bitcoin Genesis Block

3.1.2020
11 years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin network at approximately 18:15:05 UTC and the world hasn’t been the same since. The Bitcoin blockchain came to life on January 3, 2009, and so far, more than 600,000 blocks have been mined into existence. Nakamoto’s genesis block...

Close to 14,000 Google Scholar Articles Mentioned Bitcoin in 2019

25.12.2019
On January 3, 2020, the Bitcoin network officially turns 11 and the technology has transformed the lives of many. Since blockchain’s inception, scholars and economists have rigorously studied and written thousands of academic papers covering the subject. In 2019, there were more than 13,700...

Bitcoin History Part 21: Miners Pour One out for Satoshi

10.12.2019
There are a few ways of looking at bitcoin mining. As an ostensibly selfish enterprise, wherein miners are seeking to extract precious coins for profit. And as a community of individuals who envisage a better way of generating, handling and using money, and are motivated to secure the Bitcoin...

How Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Cash System Was Revealed 11 Years Ago

31.10.2019
On October 31, 2008, on the eve of Halloween, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper. Since then the revolutionary design of the network has changed the lives of many and has transformed how we look at money today. Also read: China Ranks 35 Crypto Projects as President Xi Pushes...

CoinShares, Blockchain and MKS Switzerland Collaborate to Launch Bitcoin Network Backed Token DGLD

15.10.2019
The DGLD, a digital asset token protected by the Bitcoin “Blockchain,” was recently launched by CoinShares, a European digital asset investment firm in collaboration with Blockchain, a major crypto wallet, and provider of some major crypto products along with MKS (Switzerland) SA part of MKS Pamp...