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Despite Negative Mining Malware Press, Privacy-Focused Crypto Monero Jumps 36% in 2 Weeks
1.1.2022
The privacy-centric crypto asset monero has seen significant gains during the last two weeks, jumping 36% in value against the U.S. dollar. Despite the negative press from the “Spider-Man: No Way Home” torrents with monero mining malware, seven-day statistics indicate the crypto asset...
Highly Anticipated Bitcoin Upgrade Taproot Activates — Taproot Script-Spends Seen in the Wild
14.11.2021
Bitcoin advocates are celebrating the successful implementation of the Taproot upgrade after block height 709,632. The upgrade was highly anticipated as it was one of the biggest changes since the introduction of Segregated Witness (Segwit) in 2017. After the upgrade was completed, the Bitcoin...
Crypto Exchange Gemini Adds Shiba Inu Support — SHIB Investors Hopeful Robinhood Will Be Next
14.11.2021
Another major cryptocurrency exchange has added support for the meme cryptocurrency shiba inu. Gemini has begun supporting SHIB alongside a few new defi, metaverse, infrastructure, and data management tokens. Meanwhile, the petition for Robinhood to list the shiba inu crypto has garnered more than...
Moonshot to $90K — After Bitcoin Upgrade Taproot Activates, Crypto Advocates Expect the Price to Rally
13.11.2021
In mid-June, the ‘Speedy Trial’ lock-in period for the Bitcoin network upgrade Taproot locked in at block height 687,285 and was mined by the bitcoin mining pool Slushpool. Taproot is expected to activate on the network on Saturday, November 13, 2021, and the upgrade is considered...
Petition to List Shiba Inu on Robinhood Gains 400K Signatures as SHIB Price Soars
29.10.2021
Shiba inu supporters are petitioning on Change.org for the trading platform Robinhood to list the shiba inu token for trading. Robinhood currently lists the meme cryptocurrency dogecoin which made up 62% of the company’s crypto trading volume in Q2. Petition to Get Robinhood to List Shiba...
The Ongoing Effort to Free Ross — Ulbricht’s Clemency Petition Closes in on Half a Million Signatures
16.10.2021
As the end of 2021 nears, Ross Ulbricht remains in prison as he continues to serve his draconian double-life prison sentence for creating a website called the Silk Road. Ever since he was arrested, there’s been an ongoing effort to free Ulbricht, as a great majority of individuals and...
XMR Developer Announces Bitcoin to Monero Atomic Swap Capabilities
25.8.2021
For quite some time, trustless, cross-chain trades called atomic swaps have been a holy grail of sorts and a number of blockchain developers have worked on making them a reality. According to the developers from the Monero project, atomic swaps between bitcoin and monero are now accessible via...
Taproot Lock-in Achieved — Bitcoin Network Set to Activate Biggest Upgrade in Four Years
12.6.2021
The ‘Speedy Trial’ lock-in period for the Bitcoin network upgrade Taproot is now complete. Data from taproot.watch details the lock-in has been achieved and it was locked in at block height 687,285 and mined by the mining pool Slushpool. Bitcoin Taproot Lock-in Complete at Block Height...
Speedy Trial Success — Bitcoin Upgrade Taproot Set to Lock-in This Weekend
12.6.2021
On Friday, June 11, 2021, data shows that Taproot could get locked-in this coming weekend, as the signal ratio is 98.3% and a touch more than 100 additional signaling blocks are needed to lock in the upcoming soft fork. Bitcoin Upgrade Taproot Inches Toward Lock-in, Success Means Activation...
Bitcoin Miners Start Signaling for Taproot Activation, People Prep for BTC’s Largest Update in 4 Years
3.5.2021
Bitcoin miners have started to signal for Taproot activation and crypto supporters are looking forward to the largest bitcoin update in almost four years. The mining operation Slush Pool mined the first block signaling for Taproot and since then the pools Foundry and F2pool have joined in...
South Koreans File Online Petitions Seeking to Remove a Chief Regulator After Harsh Crypto Comments
28.4.2021
As the South Korean government keeps strengthening the harsh rhetoric against cryptocurrencies, citizens have become increasingly angry due to the recent words from regulatory authorities. Over the weekend, petitions started to appear on the web, seeking the removal of the head of...
Taproot Update: Bitcoin Users Home In on Activation Plan, Date Still TBD
3.2.2021
The meeting ended with rough consensus in favor of BIP8 (false), as well as with approval of two possible methods to put this BIP into motion
Darknet Giant White House Market Drops Bitcoin, Supports Monero Payments Only
1.1.2021
The prominent darknet marketplace, White House Market, has dropped bitcoin payments and now accepts monero only. The darknet marketplace administrators detailed that there was an issue with a payment processor blocking Tor exit nodes, but the full transition to monero was always planned. A number...
Blockchain tech 13X 'too expensive' to justify use: DocuSign CEO
9.12.2020
The DocuSign CEO estimates the cost of providing the firm’s e-signature and digital identity services are 13X higher using blockchain technology
Majority of Bitcoin Hashrate Signals Support for Taproot Scaling, Privacy Upgrade
19.11.2020
Over 50% of Bitcoin's hashrate now supports the "uncontroversial" upgrade
Blockstream’s MuSig 2 Will Offer Less Complex, More Private Multi-Signature Transactions
4.11.2020
Made possible by Taproot, MuSig2 is designed to make multi-signature Bitcoin transactions less complex without sacrificing privacy
Bill to Give Blockchain Records Legal Clout Reintroduced in US House
7.10.2020
Rep. Soto and Rep. Schweikert call for recognizing blockchain signatures as legal instruments in their new bill
US: New bill would legally recognize digital signatures on a blockchain
5.10.2020
Congressman and Blockchain Caucus Co-Chair David Schweikert has advanced a bill to make good on the crypto adage, "code is law."
Ciphertrace Allegedly Builds Monero-Tracing Tools, XMR Proponents Disagree
31.8.2020
The blockchain surveillance firm Ciphertrace claims to have created the “world’s first” monero tracing tools for law enforcement. According to the company announcement, Ciphertrace developed forensic tools for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in order to track...
Third Anniversary of Bitcoin Cash Highlights a Myriad of Network Improvements
22.7.2020
In twelve days the Bitcoin Cash community will celebrate the third anniversary of the 2017 fork that happened on August 1. Since then, a number of changes have happened during the last three years and the following editorial will discuss the significant differences between both chains. The Bitcoin...