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873,304 blocks have been mined since Bitcoin's Genesis origin »
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Once upon a time, Bitcoin was processing many empty blocks due to low on-chain activity. However, that is now a thing of the past. Empty blocks in Bitcoin mining pools were a pressing problem in 2015 and 2016.
2019-12-5 15:40 | |
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Bitcoin Cash spin-off, Bitcoin SV (BSV), is preparing to stage its own hard fork to allow for giant blocks of transactions weighing in at up to 2 gigabytes. Bitcoin SV: Blockchain Reorgs ‘Original Feature’ On July 24, the altcoin known as Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision will carry out a protocol upgrade dubbed ‘Quasar.
2019-7-23 19:00 | |
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Mysteriously, 25 percent of mined Bitcoin Cash blocks are being tagged with “Satoshi Nakamoto. ” Given the May 15th hard fork as part of a scheduled protocol upgrade, it is rumored that the tagging is a miner signaling 51 percent attack.
2019-5-1 23:30 | |
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A recent proposal issued by Blockstream co-founder Luke DashJr has caused a stir in the Bitcoin Developers community. The well-known expert in cryptocurrencies proposed the temporary reduction of Bitcoin Blocksize to less than half.
2019-2-15 03:26 | |
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On Saturday, Nov. 10, the operation BMG mining pool mined multiple 32 MB blocks on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network. The first block at height 556034 was the biggest block ever mined on the BCH chain and the process confirmed over 166,000 transactions.
2018-11-10 19:55 | |
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The Bitcoin network is now regularly producing blocks over the 1MB block size limit that was in place prior to Segregated Witness (SegWit). Bitcoin Blocks Now Exceed 1MB Bitcoin has been growing in popularity since it was created almost a decade ago.
2018-7-11 21:00 | |
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Korea Blockchain Week is setting up perfectly for organizers and attendees with excitement levels increasing on a stream of pro-blockchain news coming from the country recently. The most recent news report states that the Korean Government is working on a classification system which could legitimize the blockchain industry.
2018-7-10 16:34 | |
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Blockchain data immutabilityThe word “immutable” is heard frequently when people speak about blockchain. At the moment, the reliability of each block in the Bitcoin blockchain is confirmed by over 9,000 nodes, with the number of blocks in the network now surpassing 500,000.
2018-7-6 00:38 | |
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Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away.
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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Recent Bitcoin block data shows that Bitcoin’s mining pools BTC. com, AntPool and ConnectBTC, respectively mined about 25. 7 percent, 16. 1 percent and 0. 2 percent of all new blocks over the past week.
2018-6-29 23:07 | |
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In a non-binding agreement, BTCC Pool Limited — the mining operation of former Chinese exchange BTCChina — agreed to sell a 49% stake of its Bitcoin mining pool. With 4. 55% of all Bitcoin blocks in the last year, BTCC’s operation is effectively the 7th most successful BTC mining pool in the world.
2018-6-26 18:00 | |
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Mining pools controlled by the largest Chinese ASIC miners producer Bitmain, mined more than 42% of bitcoin blocks last week, and their share in the network hashrate is growing, making a '51% attack' on bitcoin more real.
2018-6-26 22:14 | |
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Chinese crypto mining giant, Bitmain, has mined over 42% of all Bitcoin blocks recently giving rise to fears that the company could soon have control over the 51% threshold necessary for a network attack.
2018-6-25 15:14 | |
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Chinese giant Bitmain mined more than 42% of all Bitcoin blocks last week, edging close to the 51% threshold required to control the entire network. According to BTC. com’s updated pool statistics, BTC.
2018-6-25 12:11 | |
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Bitcoin Mining giant Bitmain has mined 42% of all Bitcoin blocks this past week, steadily moving closer to controlling a majority 51% of th network hash rate. Bitmain Moves Closer to 51% ASIC manufacturer and cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain — claimed 42% of the total blocks found on the Bitcoin network from the past week.
2018-6-24 20:00 | |
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Согласно официальной терминологии Bitcoin Core, «брошенные» («отцепленные» или «залежавшиеся») блоки (stale blocks) — это те блоки, которые не являются частью основной цепи. Они могут создаваться естественным путем, когда два майнера производят два блока практически одновременно или же они могут быть сгенерированы злоумышленником с целью атаки на блокчейн.
2018-6-15 08:40 | |
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Technology & Security This week four Bitcoin Cash (BCH) researchers and developers proposed a different transaction sorting process for the BCH protocol called ‘canonical transaction ordering.’ The proposed method would sort transactions against their identifiers, rather than the current topological transaction ordering rule, making it easier to for the network to process very large blocks.
2018-6-14 05:10 | |
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This week four Bitcoin Cash (BCH) researchers and developers proposed a different transaction sorting process for the BCH protocol called ‘canonical transaction ordering. ’ The proposed method would sort transactions against their identifiers, rather than the current topological transaction ordering rule, making it easier to for the network to process very large blocks.
2018-6-14 03:10 | |
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