Becoming Self Sovereign: How to Set Up a Bitcoin Node, With Lightning

Setting up a RaspiBlitz Bitcoin node (with Lightning!) is an easy way to become self-sovereign and support the Bitcoin ecosystem.

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Fork in the node: Bitcoin Cash Node on track to oust Bitcoin ABC

After months of escalating tensions between rival Bitcoin Cash implementations, the future of BCH appears to be firmly in the hands of Bitcoin Cash Node.

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Buy or DIY? An Overview of 7 Bitcoin Full Node Products

Casa, Nodl, BitBoxBase and more

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HTC Exodus 1s Gets Shipped With Bitcoin Full Node Feature

HTC is launching the Exodus 1s: a $244 smartphone that runs a full Bitcoin node and has an integrated hardware wallet. The post HTC Exodus 1s Gets Shipped With Bitcoin Full Node Feature appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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HTC’s Cheaper $250 Smartphone Runs a Full Bitcoin Node

On Saturday HTC launched a wallet-friendly version of its blockchain smartphone, versioned the Exodus 1s. The new phone comes in at a little under $250 (€219) and customers can buy it either with fiat or crypto.

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HTC’s Latest Blockchain Phone Can Run a Full Bitcoin Node

The Taiwanese electronics giant has launched the Exodus 1s phone with a built-in hardware wallet and the ability to support a bitcoin node.

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New Full Node Client, Library and Blockchain Explorer “Bitcoin Verde” Enters the BCH Ecosystem

After a few days into the New Year, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community and its supporters were welcomed by another new node known as Bitcoin Verde. It is a complete node, library, and an explorer for the Bitcoin cash chain.

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Circle’s Cryptocurrency OTC Desk Swapped More Than $24 Billion in 2018

Finance company Circle claims its over-the-counter (OTC) cryptocurrency trading desk swapped a notional volume of $24 billion last year. The Boston-based company’s Circle Trade desk reportedly executed more than 10,000 cryptocurrency settlements between 600 unique counterparties in 2018.

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New Full Node Client ‘Bitcoin Verde’ Joins the BCH Ecosystem

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporters were greeted on Thursday by another new full node client, library and blockchain explorer for the BCH chain called Bitcoin Verde. The creator of Verde says it is a ground-up implementation of the BCH protocol and the project has a few different aspects than the wide variety of full node clients […] The post New Full Node Client ‘Bitcoin Verde’ Joins the BCH Ecosystem appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Neutrino: A Privacy-Preserving Light Wallet Protocol

Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.

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Next-gen Blockchain IOST is Gearing Up for Mainnet Launch, Now Accepting Node Applications

IOST, a next-generation blockchain is getting ready to compete with legacy networks like Ethereum and EOS with their Mainnet set to launch in less than 50 days time. With their innovative consensus mechanism, governance model and reward sharing across the network, IOST is aiming to take significant market share by delivering a more decentralised version of EOS with speeds […] Next-gen Blockchain IOST is Gearing Up for Mainnet Launch, Now Accepting Node Applications was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.

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Seven New Year's Resolutions for Bitcoiners

In the time-honored tradition of goal setting for the new year, Bitcoin Magazine has compiled a short list of seven possible New Year’s Resolutions for Bitcoiners as we head into 2019.

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“larger fraud” Bitcoin Private developers manipulated the market with 2 million BTCP, Research Alleges

Using a Bitcoin codebase, researchers from Coinmetrics.io a cryptocurrency research firm discovered while running an update on Bitcoin private full node, that about 2 million BTCP was inserted into some shielded addresses by BTCP developers during the import of bitcoin to Zclassic(ZCL) a hard fork of Zcash: In verifying these figures, we ran a BTCP […] The post “larger fraud” Bitcoin Private developers manipulated the market with 2 million BTCP, Research Alleges appeared first on ZyCrypto.

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Bitcoin Cash Node Bchd Syncs in Just Over an Hour With Fast Mode

The developers behind the Bchd project have announced the launch of version 0. 13. 0-beta2 alongside the client’s ‘fast sync mode. ’ With the latest fast sync option, instead of downloading 140GB of data stemming from the chain’s genesis, Bchd users can download roughly 3GB and have the client running in just over an hour.

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Sold! Lightning Network Art Auction Goes to the Lowest Bidder

Yesterday, an auction was held by cryptocurrency and blockchain artist @cryptograffiti for a piece titled “black swan,” which the artist made using “fiat and counterfeit detector pen ink.

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Pierre Rochard: “Lightning Adoption Will Basically Mirror Bitcoin Adoption”

Lightning is a second-layer solution for the Bitcoin blockchain that addresses the scaling issues surrounding it today. Similar to Bitcoin, Lightning is an open-source protocol in which anyone can contribute to.

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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.

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Blockstream Satellites Now Cover Asia Pacific, Send Messages With Lightning

While most crypto investors are shooting for the moon, Blockstream is focused on things a bit closer to Earth: in the outermost layer of its atmosphere, to be exact.

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This New Lightning Wallet Allows You to Receive Tips Without Running a Node

A new program to set up Lightning Network micropayments, tippin. me, has recently entered beta testing. The developer for this project described some of its details on a Reddit thread to the r/Bitcoin subreddit.

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Crypto Holiday Guide: Gifts for Every Bitcoiner on Your Shopping List

The holiday season is here. And even if crypto prices are on the coal heap, you can still have fun spreading some holiday bitcoin cheer. For the bitcoiners in your life, this could mean a crypto-related gift as a token of solidarity.

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The Rise Of The All-In-One Bitcoin & Lightning Node

The last few months have seen a growing number of all-in-one Bitcoin and Lightning nodes emerging on to the marketplace, enabling more and more users to begin to experience the Lightning network payment system, which now has a total network capacity in the region of 450BTC.

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NEO Announces Its Decentralization Plans, Calls for Consensus Node Applications

NEO, an open-source smart contracts platform and the world’s 17th largest cryptocurrency project is following its roadmap to greater decentralization. In a step to achieve its goal, NEO is allowing organizations to run consensus nodes on its network.

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Dec 5th Crypto News Recap – Sberbank, SEC, VeChainThor, Binance CZ, US Congressman, Roger Ver [VIDEO]

Sberbank And Interros Group Perform OTC Repo Transaction Using Blockchain Technology Sberbank And Interros Group Perform OTC Repo Transaction Using Blockchain Technology SEC Chairman “Bitcoin Is NOT A Security”: Stating Open Distribution, No Centralized Authority Control SEC Chairman “Bitcoin Is NOT A Security”: Stating Open Distribution, No Centralized Authority Control VeChainThor (VET) Releases Node Tokenization […]

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PIVX Makes History with New Light Node Zerocoin Protocol

Privacy-centric cryptocurrency project PIVX has announced the release of a new light node Zerocoin protocol. The protocol has been in the pipeline for a while and is the first-ever implementation of Zerocoin that confers full functionality to low resource machines.

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Bitcoin’s Tech Trends of 2018: What This Year Brought Us (Part 1)

Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.

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Bug in NEO’s Blockchain Allows Hackers to Steal Remotely

A post on Chinese microblogging website Weibo has revealed that certain NEO users may be affected by a critical software vulnerability that could potentially lead to loss of tokens. The bug was reportedly discovered by another Chinese company, Tencent Security.

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New Software Copernicus Has Mined Its First Bitcoin Cash Block

On Saturday, Dec. 1, the Copernicus project announced the launch of its full node implementation pre-release written in the programming language Golang (Go). Following the release, the client was used to generate the first Golang version of a Bitcoin Cash block mined at height 558847.

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An Alternative Client Has Mined Bitcoin Cash Block 558847

On Saturday, Dec. 1, the Copernicus project announced the launch of its full node implementation pre-release written in the programming language Golang (Go). Following the release, the client was used to generate the first Golang version of a Bitcoin Cash block mined at height 558847.

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Po.et’s Mainnet Launch Puts Creative Content Data on the Bitcoin Blockchain

Disclaimer: The parent company of Bitcoin Magazine, BTC Media, LLC, is an affiliate of Po. et. Today, November 27, 2018, the Po. et team has taken its next step toward the verifiable web as it officially launches its proof-of-existence protocol on the Bitcoin mainnet.

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NodeJS package used by the Copay and BitPay apps was modified to load malicious code, BitPay released security update version

A Node.js module called event-stream is used in millions of web applications, including BitPay’s open-source bitcoin wallet — Copay — and this module was reportedly compromised. A user with very little coding activity on GitHub requested publishing rights to the event-stream library from its previous maintainer, Dominic Tarr, who said that he had not maintained […]

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[Newsflash] Several Bitcoin Wallets Possibly Hacked by Rogue Developer, BitPay Becomes Focal Point

It’s been a rough month for the crypto industry – and now it has become even rougher. It appears that several major bitcoin wallets have been compromised by a rogue developer. A Node. js module called event-stream was reportedly compromised.

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Most Bitcoin Cash Node Owners Don’t Offer Reorg Protection

Ever since the Bitcoin Cash network underwent its major protocol upgrade, there have been numerous concerns. Not just because Bitcoin Cash SV seemingly poses a genuine threat first and foremost, but also due to the recent node client upgrade.

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Coin Dance Data Shows Bitcoin’s Full Node Count Crosses 10,000 For The First Time Since March

Bitcoin Public Full Node Count Crosses 10,000 For The First Time Since March Data from Coin Dance currently shows that the number of bitcoin public nodes is 10,055. Notably, the public notes have reached 5 digits for the first time since March 2018.

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Bitcoin Public Full Node Count Surpasses 10,000

New data released by Coin Dance this week shows that the number of bitcoin public nodes made a significant jump. The reported 10,094 public nodes places the total number back over 10,000 for the first time since March.

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Bitcoin Cash Developers Launch Beta Bchd Client Written in Golang

On Nov. 18, a few days after the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fork, Openbazaar developer Chris Pacia announced the launch of Bchd, a full node implementation of the BCH chain written in Golang. Pacia and contributors have detailed that it’s been over two months since the Bchd client was forked from Btcd reference code and so […] The post Bitcoin Cash Developers Launch Beta Bchd Client Written in Golang appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Bcoin Developers Release Cross-Chain Atomic Swap Application

On Friday, Nov. 16, the developers behind the full node projects Bcoin and Bcash announced an application that allows users to complete cross-chain atomic swaps between both the BCH and BTC chains.

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Progress Report: Lightning Network Surpasses $1M BTC Capacity, 4,000 Nodes

The Lightning Network continues to post steady growth. According to data from 1ML, the network is now supported by roughly 4,070 nodes, which house just over 12,500 payment channels, an average of 10.

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Bitcoin Unlimited vs Bitcoin ABC vs Bitcoin SV – Node & Economic Support

There are still a lot of unknown factors associated with the upcoming Bitcoin Cash hard fork. While miners clearly favor Bitcoin SV at this time, things may look a bit different where everything else is concerned.

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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Mining Pool Mempool Follows Bitcoin SV

A new mining pool will be following Bitcoin SV in the upcoming Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard fork. Mempool, a recognized and popular Bitcoin Cash mining pool, announced ‘immediate availability’ of the mining pool for both Bitcoin BCH and BTC.

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Blockstream Announces Full Node and Wallet for Liquid Bitcoin

Blockstream, a company focusing on the development of Bitcoin technologies announced on November 6, 2018, that its Liquid Bitcoin sidechain was made available. Blockstream’s Bitcoin Push Blockstream launched the Liquid Network on October 10, 2018, as the world’s first production Bitcoin sidechain.

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Blockstream Releases Full Node Access, Wallet, Block Explorer for Liquid

Blockstream has released a full node and wallet client for its newly released Liquid, along with a fresh-out-the-box block explorer to monitor transactions and other data on the sidechain.

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Blockstream Unveils New Tool To Monitor Liquid Sidechain

Blockstream has been busy as of late with a brace of announcements including the release of the Liquid Full Node binaries alongside a new block explorer that lets you track transactions on the Liquid sidechain.

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Blockstream releases Liquid Network bitcoin sidechain full node and wallet

CryptoNinjas Blockstream, the blockchain technology and financial cryptography infrastructure provider today has announced the availability of the Liquid full node binaries and source code.

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BitMEX Launches New Fork Monitoring Website to Keep Track of Bitcoin Forks

BitMEX just launched a website to make it easier to keep tabs on hard and soft forks on the Bitcoin blockchain. According to a recent blog post, the research arm of BitMEX is sponsoring a new website, ForkMonitor.

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NEO Details the Process of Becoming a Consensus Node on Its Network

The NEO public blockchain project backs NEO, the 15th largest cryptocurrency in the world. It has two distinctive tokens, NEO (NEO) and NEOGas (GAS). Of these two, NEO has 100 million tokens of which 50 million have been distributed to supporters while the other 50 percent is managed by the NEO Council to support the […] NEO Details the Process of Becoming a Consensus Node on Its Network was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.

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Bitcoin Cash Mining Pool SVPool Takes Lead With 8% of Total BCH Hash Power

SVPool (Satoshi Vision Pool) is a recently available open, mining pool for Bitcoin Cash [BCH] miners, who’s values match that of Satoshi Nakamoto’s. As per its official website, SVPool will run the Bitcoin SV, restore the Bitcoin protocol via the new full node integration, limit changes and work towards scaling. Given the nature of SVPool, […]

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GIN Platform Launches a New Product – the Cloud Node

Bitcoin Press Release: The GIN Platform announces its newest product – the Cloud Node, designed to further increase accessibility to masternode deployment and management. 31st October, 2018. London, UK.

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Parity and Zcash Foundation Team up for Full Node Client

Parity Technologies has announced a partnership with the Zcash Foundation to build the first-ever alternative full node software for Zcash. Announcing the development in an article posted on its official blog on October 30, 2018, Parity revealed that the new Zcash alternative client would be written in Rust programming language Full Node Online  According to Parity, its vast experience in.

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Storj Launches Version 3 of Its Decentralized Cloud Storage Platform

On October 30, 2018, Storj Labs released a public alpha for their version 3 (V3) platform –– enabling developers and companies to test their decentralized cloud storage solution.

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