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Altcoins Beware: An Overview of Recent 51% Attacks

The so-called 51% attacks are among the major security threats to digital currencies as they allow enable perpetrators to control the network and all transactions passing through it. What Is a 51% attack? Cryptocurrencies are bolstered by blockchain technologies or distributed ledgers which store information about all transactions ever made in a network. дальше »

2019-2-7 21:00


Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Wild Cards, $3,500 Last Frontier

Latest Bitcoin News That environmentalists are always on Bitcoin case is appalling. Why not ambush traditional banking set ups whose carbon footprints are on par oil sector players? The more they critic the network–even going to lengths of comparing facilitators as miners as environmental enemies, the more we have reasons to believe that their green […] The post Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Wild Cards, $3,500 Last Frontier appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2019-1-21 15:00


Crypto Investors Checklist About Ethereum’s Constantinople Hard Fork on January 16, 2019

Ethereum (ETH) is going to experience a new hard fork as soon as January 16. This network upgrade is called Constantinople and is expected to reduce block rewards for miners from 3 ETH to 2 ETH. The upgrade is very important for the Ethereum community and is an important path towards Proof-of-Stake (PoS) from Proof-of-Work […] дальше »

2019-1-7 19:00


Zcash Plans To Reduce Inflation With Harmony Mining

Zcash, a prominent privacy coin, has announced plans to reduce its rapid inflation rate. Currently, the coin is experiencing inflation at a rate of 0.1% per day. This may not sound like much, but the rate compounds dramatically over the course of a year, and in absolute terms, the network is issuing miners $400,000 worth… The post Zcash Plans To Reduce Inflation With Harmony Mining appeared first on UNHASHED. дальше »

2019-1-7 19:26


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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Adjusts 10% Upwards For the First Time in Months

Bitcoin continues to stabilize its network activity with a return to upward difficulty adjustments after hash rate reversed its decline last month. Bitcoin Continues To Police Itself Data from statistics resources Blockchain and Bitcoin Wisdom confirms that the Bitcoin network’s most recent difficulty adjustment was up, not down, by just over 10 percent. дальше »

2019-1-1 17:00


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Economic Rationality and the Bitcoin Network

The Bitcoin network has now been functioning for a decade. In that time, human beings have actively interacted with the system, participating as miners, running nodes, and making transactions. In addition to securing the network and increasing decentralization by contributing computing power, human beings have also played a significant role in the increase in the value of the cryptocurrency. дальше »

2018-12-31 12:00


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Syncing Data Between Bitcoin Nodes Is About to Get Easier

Minisketch is a new solution that’s trying to solve an old problem. Spearheaded by Blockstream co-founder Pieter Wuille, Bitcoin Core contributor and fellow Blockstream co-founder Gregory Maxwell, and Blockstream software engineer Gleb Naumenko, the open-source initiative is designed to achieve set reconciliation between the mempools of each full node. дальше »

2018-12-18 18:48


Understanding How Blockchain Fees And Incentives Help Fend Off Network Spam Attacks

A lot of newcomers to crypto space often wonder why transaction fees are necessary, especially since miners receive block rewards. However, the truth is that block rewards can be enough only for a certain period, especially when it comes to Bitcoin, which has its block rewards cut in half approximately every four years. For now, […] дальше »

2018-12-3 21:27


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A Bug Making Ethereum Transactions on Exchanges Vulnerable Has Been Fixed

A bug centering around a new Ethereum token, GasToken, which was enabling abuse on cryptocurrency exchanges, appears to have been resolved. The details are provided in a report originally published on November 13, 2018, that discussed how the bug was exploited by attackers, and what digital platforms could do if they wished to protect their hot wallet funds. дальше »

2018-11-22 00:34


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Bitcoin Cash ABC update exposes potentially catastrophic vulnerability

It hasn’t been long since the monstrously wasteful hash wars began, but it already seems both newly spawned blockchains are running into potentially crippling technical difficulties. Shortly after BSV (nChain’s implementation of Bitcoin Cash) suffered from a bug that split its network in two, it appears that BAB (Bitcoin-ABC’s implementation of Bitcoin Cash) has rolled out a software update that puts its entire network at risk of 51-percent attacks from rogue miners. дальше »

2018-11-21 20:52