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The Genesis Block: The First Bitcoin Block
3.1.2023
Satoshi Nakamoto mined the Genesis Block on Jan. 3, 2009. That was three months after the pseudonymous inventor published the Bitcoin white paper in an online cryptography forum. People now call Jan. 3 “Genesis Block Day.”
Community celebrates Bitcoin Genesis Day by sending BTC to the Genesis block
3.1.2023
The wallet address now contains around 68.56 BTC, which is worth around $1.1 million at the time of writing
Ancient Bitcoin Block Rewards See Decrease in Spending After Record Activity in 2020 and 2021
2.1.2023
In 2021, a number of 2010 block rewards were spent after the bitcoins sat idle for more than a decade. Furthermore, in 2020 and 2021, an early miner from 2010 spent strings of 20 ancient block rewards. In 2022, however, only 17 block rewards from 2010 were spent. Alongside this, on March 10, 2022...
Bitcoin Miners Discovered 53,240 Blocks This Year, Foundry Led the Pack, Hashrate Tapped an All-Time High
23.12.2022
As the new year approaches, more than a dozen bitcoin mining pools still dedicate a total of 238 exahash per second (EH/s) toward the Bitcoin blockchain in order to secure the network and reap mining rewards. Statistics indicate that the mining pool Foundry USA discovered the most block rewards...
Lucky Block Crypto Casino: The Best of Both Worlds – Casino Games and Sports Betting
21.12.2022
Lucky Block Casino and Sportsbook has been a popular destination for casino gamers and sports betting enthusiasts since its launch in November, just in time for the FIFA World Cup. Players can enjoy an array of casino games such as slot machines, blackjack, roulette and baccarat while also wagering...
The Block Is The Perfect (Tiny) City-Builder
21.12.2022
If 2022 is going to be the year of anything, it’s been the year of the city-builder, a strategy sub-genre that has exploded in popularity recently, especially on the PC. While most efforts are focused on sprawling urban landscapes and Viking outposts, and others make city-builders with even more...
While Miners Deal With Low BTC Prices, Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Target Expected to Increase 3% Higher
18.12.2022
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty target is expected to increase on Dec. 19, 2022, after printing the largest reduction recorded in 2022 on Dec. 5, at block height 766,080. During the last 2,016 blocks, Bitcoin’s hashrate has been around 254.3 exahash per second (EH/s), and block intervals...
Hal Finney’s Wife Fran Activates Her Husband’s Twitter Account to Protect It From ‘Being Purged’ by Elon Musk
17.12.2022
Roughly seven days ago the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, disclosed that the social media platform planned to purge 1.5 billion Twitter names if they were inactive or the accounts haven’t logged in for years. After the statement, bitcoiners grew concerned that the now-deceased computer...
Web3 Infrastructure Firm Blocknative Raises $15M for Ethereum Block Building Market
15.12.2022
The funding round was led by Blockchain Capital, Foundry Group and several other venture capital firms
Another Mysterious Person Signs a 2009 BTC Address, Message Shared by Martin Shkreli Mentions Convicted Felon Paul Le Roux
15.12.2022
Just recently, the crypto community discovered a bitcointalk.org forum user who signed a message from bitcoin block 1,018, and the signer associated the signature with an address first seen in 2022. Moreover, further investigation and evidence have tied block 1,018 to the now-deceased computer...
So, you’d like to animate the display property
15.12.2022
The CSS Working Group gave that a thumbs-up a couple weeks ago. The super-duper conceptual proposal being that we can animate or transition from, say, display: block to display: none.
It’s a bit of a brain-twister to reason …
So, you’d like to animate the display property originally...
Recently Signed 2009 Bitcoin Block Reward Linked to Hal Finney’s Set of BTC Transactions
15.12.2022
At the end of November, an unknown person signed a signature tied to an extremely old block reward mined on Jan. 19, 2009, and the user published a message and verified signature linked to the reward on the forum bitcointalk.org. The message was tied to a bitcoin address associated with block...
Unchain My Inaccessibly-Labelled Heart
14.12.2022
Suzy Naschansky from the HTMHell Advent Calendar:
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While Elon Musk Plans to Purge 1.5 Billion Inactive Twitter Names, Bitcoiners Beg Him to Preserve Hal Finney’s Account
13.12.2022
On Dec. 9, 2022, Twitter’s owner Elon Musk told the public that the social media company plans to purge 1.5 billion accounts. Musk further added that the deletions would be obvious accounts that have no tweets or they haven’t logged in for years. However, after Musk announced this...
Saving Settings for a Custom WordPress Block in the Block Editor
12.12.2022
We’ve accomplished a bunch of stuff in this series! We created a custom WordPress block that fetches data from an external API and renders it on the front end. Then we took that work and extended it so the data …
Saving Settings for a Custom WordPress Block in the Block Editor originally...
Report Shows Crypto News Publication The Block Was Secretly Funded by Bankman-Fried’s Alameda
9.12.2022
On Dec. 9, 2022, Axios reporter Sara Fischer reported on the CEO of the crypto media The Block after it was discovered that the chief executive was secretly funded by Alameda Research, the now-defunct trading firm co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. According to the report, sources say The Block...
Crypto Markets Today: Exposed Alameda Research Loans to Media Site The Block and Its CEO Adds to FTX’s Miseries
9.12.2022
The fallout from crypto exchange FTX’s implosion continued as data showed the GBTC discount rate to bitcoin hitting a record high. Crypto Markets Today is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today's crypto markets
CEO of crypto news site The Block resigns for failing to disclose $27M loans from Alameda Research
9.12.2022
New CEO Bobby Moran said there was no evidence that Mike McCaffrey had "improperly" influenced coverage of Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX, and Alameda Research on the news site
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research Secretly Funded Crypto Media Site The Block and Its CEO
9.12.2022
CEO Michael McCaffrey has resigned as a result of the loans coming to light, The Block confirmed
Kenya-Based Bitcoin Mining Company Raises $2 Million in Seed Investment Led by Jack Dorsey-Owned Firm
9.12.2022
Gridless, a bitcoin mining company operating from Kenya, recently raised $2 million in seed investment from Block, a digital payments company owned by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, and Stillmark. The bitcoin mining firm is reportedly planning to use the capital raised to fund its expansion into...