2022-10-3 16:00 |
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The winds of change are blowing through the crypto mining industry. The highly anticipated halving event in April 2024, which sliced block rewards in half, has sent shockwaves through the ecosystem.
2024-6-6 15:40 | |
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According to a Tuesday report by The Block, London-based neobank Revolut is considering adding 29 new including Dogecoin, AVAX, Shiba Inu and Solana, through a new partnership with Apex Crypto for its U.
2022-9-24 12:29 | |
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Recently, Monero development team has made adjustments to the blockchain through a network upgrade. The date of the event has been known since the end of April, and it was successfully held on block 2 688 888.
2022-8-16 01:10 | |
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Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Block, has announced plans to form Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization that would offer Bitcoin developers legal protection. Dorsey suggested this idea through an email he sent to the Bitcoin Developer’s mailing list earlier today.
2022-1-14 23:02 | |
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This year, well-wishers are donating more money in form of crypto donations to non-profit organizations having surpassed the $100 million mark compared to last year’s $4 million. This is according to The Giving Block, a popular crypto philanthropy platform through which non-profits raise money from well-wishers.
2021-12-28 18:40 | |
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The video game developer believes blockchain’s decentralized approach could “genuinely make players stakeholders of our games.” The post Ubisoft’s “Building Block” For Its Metaverse Is Through In-Game NFTs In Partnership with Tezos (XTZ) first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-12-8 18:55 | |
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Syscoin SYS/USD is a decentralized public blockchain and a development platform that offers high throughput through cross-chain interoperability for tokenized assets. Smart contract support as a catalyst for growth On December 6, Syscoin completed block 1,317,500, and all miners shut down and upgraded to 4.
2021-12-9 19:24 | |
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Bullish, an institutional crypto exchange supported by multiple renowned people and entities like Peter Thiel, Galaxy Digital, and Block. one, has launched in Gibraltar. The exchange unveiled this news through a press release earlier today, noting that it has already activated trading for institutional investors.
2021-12-1 01:04 | |
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Bitcoin has had several close shaves to annihilation over the years but has survived the roughest moments. The asset’s first major trial occurred about a year after launch when a block erroneously contained 92 billion BTC.
2021-10-8 21:29 | |
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The 501(c)3 organization has begun accepting bitcoin and cryptocurrency donations through a partnership with The Giving Block.
2021-10-7 19:12 | |
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The region encompassing Central, Northern, and Western Europe (CNWE) has recorded the highest volume of digital currency trading, becoming the most active crypto block. Blockchain analytics company Chainalysis disclosed this news earlier today through a report, noting that CNWE received over $1 trillion (£0.
2021-9-29 20:27 | |
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China is going even further into cracking down on cryptocurrencies in the country. It has decided to block access to CoinGecko, TradingView, and CoinMarketCap through its internet firewall. The three websites are major cryptocurrency-related websites.
2021-9-29 17:00 | |
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While EOS price is seeing a 10% jump from the news today, the token is down 82. 6% from its all-time high of $22. 7 three years back in 2018 and failed to reach its peak even in 2021, where crypto prices soared to new heights and made crypto over a $2.
2021-7-9 17:38 | |
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A Binance spokesperson reiterated to Cointelegraph that the Financial Conduct Authority’s recent edict only applied to Binance Markets Limited, which is a separate legal entity from the main global exchange that operates through Binance.com.
2021-7-6 22:20 | |
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A recent report reveals that privacy-focused messaging app, Signal Technology Foundation, has started accepting cryptocurrency donations. The report states that the app will be accepting donations through The Giving Block.
2021-3-17 14:48 | |
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Bitcoin is entering the mainstream through art, apparently. An anonymous purchaser recently spent $131,250 in fiat dollars to purchase “Block 21,” a piece of art created by Ben Gentill of Robert Alice.
2020-10-8 06:00 | |
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The INX IPO is the first of its kind and gives observers and issuers a ground-level view of what’s going on through the Etherscan block explorer.
2020-9-19 20:15 | |
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Last month, it was reported that Coinbase was interested in selling its analytics software to the United States government agencies. Now The Block is telling us that Coinbase has landed a deal with the United States Secret Service that will run through 2024.
2020-7-12 23:10 | |
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The company that conducted the initial coin offering (ICO) for the EOS token, Block.one, has had a class-action lawsuit filed against them in the Southern District of New York. The suit alleges that the company defrauded the plaintiffs through a year-long illegal ICO that raised more than US$4 billion but left investors with an unregulated asset.
2020-5-21 12:00 | |
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Bitcoin has gone through its third halving event, and miners’ block rewards have gone from 12. 5 BTC to 6. 25 BTC. While many believe that the halving was already priced in, most members of the community, including analysts, think that the halving will spike prices.
2020-5-14 20:37 | |
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Even though the network recently went through a block reward halving, the Bitcoin hashrate is still pretty high. In fact, it has reached a new all-time high just yesterday, further confirming that the network is pretty healthy.
2020-5-13 05:00 | |
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The widely-anticipated third Bitcoin halving finally took place Monday at 19:23 UTC. Unlike what over-optimistic bulls were perhaps hoping for, the BTC-USD pair remained relatively low-key going into the milestone event (even though some wild price fluctuations went on through the last 3-4 hours leading to block #630,000).
2020-5-12 11:45 | |
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At this point in time, price is king. In less than 10 days, Bitcoin will go through its third block halving, undoubtedly setting off ripple effects across the rest of the cryptocurrency market, a markThe post Ethereum is moving away from Bitcoin, but not for long appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-5-6 14:30 | |
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The long-awaited third block reward halving is less than a month away for Bitcoin, and sentiment indicators are pumping through the roof. Google searches for “Bitcoin halving” have seen an exponential increase in 2020, as per The Next Web, April 15, 2020.
2020-4-15 17:00 | |
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Today is the day when Bitcoin Cash (BCH), the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, goes through its third halving. Much akin to its big brother Bitcoin, BCH will also see block rewards dropping from 12.
2020-4-8 10:11 | |
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Crypto community is excited about the Bitcoin reward halving next month but interestingly bitcoin forks’ halving is here. Bitcoin Core’s (BTC) fork Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and the latter’s fork Bitcoin SV (BSV) will go through their respective block reward halving on April 8 and April 9 next week.
2020-4-5 17:17 | |
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The controversial EOS Worker Proposal announced by leading EOS block producers passed through its first stage of execution supported by numerous network participants
2020-3-25 14:47 | |
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Roger Ver, one of the most prominent Bitcoin Casher, has called off his support to fund BCH developers through 12.5% of mining block rewards. “We think it is clear that... The post Roger Ver Backs Off Dev Funding as Bitcoin Unlimited Threatens Chain-Split appeared first on Trustnodes.
2020-1-28 17:25 | |
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Digibyte has made yet another significant milestone after its network hit the 10 million block mark! The UTXO built blockchain announced through its twitter handle on Dec 22 that it is still scaling to even higher heights given their community growth is on an upward trajectory.
2019-12-23 18:59 | |
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Many are unaware of the fact that Ripple’s XRP effectively has no genesis block on record. Due to a bug, ledgers numbered one through 32569 were lost and have not been recovered. Genesis blocks are considered the most important part of a blockchain’s history.
2019-12-13 14:59 | |
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There is now just a day left before Ethereum goes through the Istanbul network upgrade. Scheduled for Saturday, December 7, this upgrade will occur at block number 9,069,000. After Byzantium and Constantinople, Istanbul is yet another long-awaited upgrade which is part of the Ethereum network’s move from proof-of-work (PoW) to Proof-of-stake (PoS). This would be […]
2019-12-7 21:00 | |
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Block.One revealed that it will become part of EOS election as the issue centralization of the platform emerges yet again. The company behind EOSIO platform now says it will be taking part in all electoral aspects in order to select Block Producers within the EOS blockchain, Cointelegraph reports. Through a series of tweets one of […]
2019-11-30 23:53 | |
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bloXroute Labs, creators of a blockchain scaling solution through its Blockchain Distribution Network (BDN), announced today the results of a three week long testing done by Akomba Labs showing they can significantly improve block propagation performance.
2019-11-28 21:21 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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On Tuesday, The Tor Project announced that it’s now accepting BTC for donations through its lighting network. The NGO announced this during the fundraising program by The Giving Block. Tor said that the lighting network would be able to receive bitcoin donations for the Tor project.
2019-11-21 19:05 | |
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The Binance hardfork upgrade is scheduled for the 28th of November following the successful Heisenberg testnet. Validators within the Binance ecosystem have agreed on block height 51,467,800 as the perfect time to execute this milestone.
2019-11-20 01:32 | |
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Based on historical patterns, Bitcoin’s price could go through a narrow price range, soon before the block reward halving. BTC remains unpredictable, yet past analysis shows a certain trend.
2019-11-10 15:04 | |
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“Block reward” is a term that refers to the new Bitcoin granted as a reward to miners by the network. Periodically, the network goes through an event which is called “halving. ” The event occurs every time 210,000 blocks are mined.
2019-11-5 10:28 | |
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A Bitcoin block reward is the new BTC granted as a reward by the network to miners. Every 210,000 blocks, the network goes through a “halving” — an event in which the rewards for mining are cut in half.
2019-10-24 16:35 | |
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Litecoin has published its long-awaited draft proposal for MimbleWimble implementation through Extension Blocks [EB] under the Litecoin Improvement Protocol [LIP] titled, LIP 2 & LIP 3. This development was first revealed on Litecoin.
2019-10-23 10:57 | |
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Qtum goes through its first-ever hard fork today after Qtum blockchain crosses block 466,000
2019-10-18 20:36 | |
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The Bitcoin network created a rare event – a block discovery happening by two pools at the same time. In theory, such an event could be the root of a hard fork. Highly Competitive Miners Co-Discovered a Block Bitcoin (BTC) did not go through a hard fork, but produced a rare event where two pools discovered the right block header at the same time.
2019-10-17 14:00 | |
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Who cares about Libra anyway? Block Matrix is one example of a company that is developing an app that lets users send BTC through their social media accounts (with the notable exception of Facebook).
2019-10-11 16:00 | |
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The Newcastle Tech company Block Matrix received 2 million investment for app development, which allows sending Bitcoin through accounts in social networks
2019-10-11 15:36 | |
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Litecoin, the silver to Bitcoin’s gold, had recently gone through the block halving event, resulting in extreme price swings. The cryptocurrency market, in general, is highly correlated, with most crypto assets following Bitcoin’s price movements.
2019-10-4 23:37 | |
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Blockchain company Block. one has reached a civil settlement agreement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a year-long unregistered initial coin offering (ICO) it held through 2017 and 2018.
2019-10-2 14:05 | |
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The Litecoin network was a boom-and-bust story in the summer of 2019. Miners started to abandon the coin as soon as the block reward went through a halving on August 5. Litecoin Reward Halving Dispersed Miners The cutoff date for Litecoin mining arrived exactly on August 5, when the block reward fell from 25 LTC to 12.
2019-9-11 18:30 | |
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Although Tron’s unconditional bear market has not fared well against Justin Sun’s promises of a comeback, the community’s efforts toward a growing ecosystem is evident through the Tron Foundation’s weekly reports.
2019-9-10 01:30 | |
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The Tron Foundation updated the community about recent developments in its ecosystem through its weekly report. The report highlighted the progress of Tron over the past week. The community was elated by the fact that block height had exceeded 11.
2019-8-20 12:00 | |
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A Swedish man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the U. S. for an investment fraud scheme involving cryptocurrency, including bitcoin. He defrauded thousands of victims of more than $16 million.
A bitcoin ATM operator has been sent to federal prison for two years for running an illegal cryptocurrency exchange operation. U. S. authorities have seized 17 bitcoin ATMs, along with some cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin.
The founder of two cryptocurrency hedge funds has been charged in U. S. federal court for securities fraud. He has pleaded guilty and is facing up to 20 years in prison. His two funds cumulatively had over $100 million in investments.
The U. S. has sentenced a cryptocurrency exchange owner to 10 years in prison. He “knowingly and intentionally engaged in business practices designed to both assist fraudsters in laundering the proceeds of their fraud and to shield himself from criminal liability,” the Department of Justice alleges.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are suing early bitcoin investor and entrepreneur Charlie Shrem over thousands of bitcoin they allege he owes them from a previous business deal. The New York Times reported on Thursday that Shrem – who previously spent a year in prison for money laundering and operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business related to […]