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How the World’s Largest Crypto Exchange Helped Usher in the Dawn of a Currency Revolution

The world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, is flush with massive profits from its operations in 2018, estimated from buybacks of its BNB token to total $446 million. Although Bitcoin is trading at a loss over the last 12 months, transaction volume has been steadily increasing over the last year, so Binance has been busy. дальше »

2019-2-15 03:22


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Living on Bitcoin for a Week in San Francisco

When I decided, maybe against my better judgement, to live on bitcoin for a week, the plan was met by a combination of cautions and jokes from friends and loved ones: “Just don’t starve,” “Well, it’s the New Year, a perfect time to start a new diet,” “Will you be able to eat?”, “Have you really thought about it?”I had “really” thought about it and it seemed not only sensible but necessary. дальше »

2019-2-5 23:06


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Bitcoin Movements At A Twelve Month High

Even though its price has collapsed by nearly 70%, Bitcoin (BTC) is still growing, with transaction rates at an all-year high. Data collected by Blockchain.com indicate that the number of transactions added every second to the mempool – the holding area for crypto trades before they’re added to the ledger – have reached the highest level […] The post Bitcoin Movements At A Twelve Month High appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »

2019-1-25 22:53


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Blockchain Analysis Is About to Get Harder as P2EP Enters Testing Phase

Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder. дальше »

2019-1-1 19:31


Electricity Consumption of Bitcoin is a Non-Issue: Solar Energy is Free in Some Regions

Bitcoin and its trustless, decentralized design requires a unique process called mining that validates each transaction being added to its underlying blockchain. The process involves solving complex mathematical equations, and typically requires some serious computer processing power, and even specially-designed hardware, to validate each block. дальше »

2018-12-18 20:01


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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


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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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Stop Using “Transactions Per Second:” Bitcoin’s More Than That

While bitcoin serves many functions, one its most substantial uses is as a payment system. Typically the metric that has been used to compare Bitcoin to companies like VISA, Paypal, or even newer blockchains that tout higher transaction capacity, is through how many transactions the system can handle, usually seen as transaction per second (tps). дальше »

2018-11-19 16:00


Ethereum’s (ETH) Blockchain Scaling Issues Look for Resolution Thanks to Upcoming ‘Serenity’ Upgrade

Even though Ethereum has been around since 2015, the decentralized, open-source platform has faced a host of issues related to its transaction throughput capacity in recent times. This is primarily because, since 2016, Ethers’ native ecosystem has witnessed an unprecedented influx of active users and daily transactions— thus effectively exposing the limitations of Ethereum’s Proof […] дальше »

2018-11-13 19:54