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The campaign to change the bitcoin code to decrease its energy use will be reigniting its efforts after ethereum's move to a less energy-intensive protocol. origin »
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Campaigners explain why they’re convinced all it takes is support from a few powerful firms and people to change the fundamentals of Bitcoin.
2022-6-4 16:00 | |
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Environmental and proof-of-stake proponents have been lobbying to change Bitcoin’s mining consensus code, but history tells us why BTC is great the way it is.
2022-5-7 17:07 | |
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One does not simply change Bitcoin’s code, as the Change The Code campaign ridiculously requests.
2022-4-6 20:00 | |
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Attacks to make Bitcoin change its issuance mechanism to proof of stake are futile. History has shown that this type of attack will not work.
2022-3-31 05:30 | |
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With the “Change The Code” campaign, Greenpeace and Ripple rubbed the bitcoin community the wrong way. The reactions kept coming throughout the day. Bitcoiners saw through the campaign’s literal intention and interpreted it as an attack on the protocol.
2022-3-31 20:27 | |
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Bitcoin has become the target of a new media campaign designed to address its environmental footprint. The post “Change the code” and the insane push to make Bitcoin a centralized, proof-of-stake network appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-3-30 08:00 | |
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Earlier this week, Some environmental groups came together to launch a campaign that advocates for Bitcoin low energy use. The campaign aims to push for bitcoin's code change to reduce energy use that has gradually increased over time.
2022-3-30 07:00 | |
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Working with Greenpeace, the Ripple chairman is attempting to do what big-blockers failed to in 2017: significantly alter Bitcoin's software without widespread consensus.
2022-3-29 17:52 | |
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A years-old privacy solution for addressing Bitcoin’s anonymity has got a facelift last week, with one developer believing the protocol can be deployed without requiring any change to Bitcoin’s source code.
2020-6-1 15:07 | |
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In the wake of the malicious “Shitcoin Wallet” code attack, experts say it's time for change, “This ‘state of the market’ requires either more security investment or different thinking.”
2020-1-10 06:00 | |
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Etheruem's Muir Glacier hard fork activated at block 9,200,000 and introduced a code change, EIP 2384, in order to delay the 'difficulty bomb' for another 4,000,000 blocks. This was the third instanceThe post Ethereum's difficulty bomb may become obsolete appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-8 03:30 | |
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An online petition to remove Craig Wright’s name from a copyright claim submitted earlier this week has surfaced after his latest effort to lay claim to the fact he authored the original Bitcoin white paper.
2019-5-22 18:31 | |
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Ethereum Developers Say Funding Has Been Approved To Audit ProgPow Mining Proposal Funding has been approved in order to start auditing the code change called Progressive Proof of Work (ProgPow). The information was released by Ethereum (ETH) developers a few hours ago.
2019-4-27 23:04 | |
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Gemini says it has added "full" support for SegWit, an important bitcoin code change that paves the way for scaling improvements.
2019-4-17 11:00 | |
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Advanced Mobile Location (AML) has been one of the biggest technological developments for emergency services around the globe. Once enabled, AML automatically activates the geo-locating capabilities of smartphones all over the world during emergency calls — sending locations to dispatchers that are 4,000 times more accurate than was previously possible.
2019-4-16 14:14 | |
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Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
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Bitcoin-Core developer Matt Corallo has recently proposed a series of changes to the Bitcoin consensus code, dubbed “The Great Consensus Cleanup” in a new BIP, and submitted an associated pull request which implements the requisite code adjustments.
2019-3-21 22:02 | |
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The code designed to enact ethereum’s next system-wide upgrade, Istanbul, may feature the inclusion of a controversial mining algorithm said to allow for broader participation in its network. Discussed Tuesday during a meeting of project managers working on the world’s second-largest blockchain, Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1057, also known as Progressive Proof-of-Work (ProgPoW), has been long debated. […]
2019-3-13 23:15 | |
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The executive in charge of Fidelity Digital Assets (FDAS), Tom Jessop, has recently affirmed that the company may take some time to offer Ethereum support. The reason? The Constantinople update, the hard fork that upgraded the token.
2019-3-8 02:00 | |
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs has announced a new company-wide ‘flexible’ dress code to reflect the changing nature of its workplaces, generally. Its stated aim is ‘to create a welcoming environment for all’ — which has led some to suspect the change is to attract crypto-personnel.
2019-3-6 17:00 | |
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As if Bitmain’s year hasn’t been rough enough, having posted big losses and laying off entire departments, its flagship product now has a firmware vulnerability. A few weeks ago, Bitcoin Core contributor James Hilliard discovered an exploit in Bitmain’s S15 firmware.
2019-2-21 23:44 | |
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China-based mining giant Bitmain has announced a new mining rig that uses less power. The hardware mining manufacturer has launched a 7nm application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) processor dubbed the BM1397.
2019-2-19 00:53 | |
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Since it came to life in early 2009, Bitcoin has begun disrupting the world of finance. Over the years, this decentralized digital currency came to mean different things for different people.
2019-2-18 18:30 | |
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An important decision was made recently as some Ethereum developers decided to hold off instead of submitting the code that would make ASIC miners less effective for mining ETH tokens. The decision was revealed during a public call made today in which people like Afri Schodedon, Danno Ferrin, Hudson Jameson, Lane Rettig and Greg Colvin […]
2019-2-2 13:54 | |
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During a public call Friday, a tentative decision on whether to implement the ethereum network's ProgPoW update was postponed.
2019-2-2 21:00 | |
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Ethereum core developers have now said they will activate the proposed Constantinople upgrade in late February. The upgrade was delayed earlier this week following a code audit, which revealed that the fork would introduce security issues affecting Ethereum’s smart contracts, potentially resulting in the theft of users’ funds.
2019-1-18 20:03 | |
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Core Ethereum developers have delayed the scheduled Constantinople upgrade after a code audit revealed the proposed software updates introduced dangerous security vulnerabilities to Ethereum smart contracts.
2019-1-16 16:41 | |
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A hardfork is an important technical change in any cryptocurrency or blockchain network which is generally carried out for improvement of code base or network. Hard forks are always been in limelight since the inception of Cryptocurrencies.
2019-1-2 14:16 | |
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When in doubt, blame the robots. As Facebook has fallen from grace and struggled to reconcile its role in spreading propaganda and stoking political anger, the company has proposed a familiar solution: If the algorithm has failed, let’s just build a better algorithm.
2018-12-23 04:00 | |
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Mobile cryptocurrency exchange and peer-to-peer wallet Shakepay has announced a new product that allows its Canadian customers to buy bitcoin with spare change. Dubbed "ShakePay Change," the pre-launch of the service was announced in a Medium post.
2018-12-18 02:32 | |
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Nick Spanos is an early adopter and innovator in the blockchain space. He is best known for launching Bitcoin Center NYC, the world’s first live cryptocurrency exchange, in 2013, right next to the New York Stock Exchange — as immortalized in the Netflix documentary “Banking on Bitcoin.
2018-12-15 21:43 | |
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Ethereum’s open source development team has come to an agreement on when to activate the next hard fork. The much-anticipated Constantinople upgrade will take place on block 7,080,000 on the Ethereum blockchain.
2018-12-9 08:39 | |
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Speaking at a bi-weekly core developer meeting Friday, members of ethereum’s open-source development team have reached agreement on anactivation time for Constantinople, a proposed code change designed to give users the option to update the blockchain with additional features, CoinDesk reported.
2018-12-7 21:13 | |
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Charles Hoskinson is best known today as a co-founder of both Ethereum and IOHK, where he leads the research, design and development of Cardano. But before these projects, there was Bitcoin.
2018-11-20 23:08 | |
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On October 29, 2018, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) announced in Prague at DevCon 4 two new software specifications that will help businesses standardize future code developments on an enterprise version of the Ethereum blockchain.
2018-10-31 22:19 | |
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David Furlonger of Gartner has peaked into the future and has seen a global transformation thanks to the code based invention of ethereum’s smart contracts. Currently, Furlonger says, we’re at.
2018-10-18 18:02 | |
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GitHub today announced Suggested Changes: a new feature that promises to make it easier to implement and action changes in pull requests. Here’s how it works. Suppose you’re collaborating on a repository with an active pull request.
2018-10-17 20:46 | |
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Chart for ETC/USD (1W) Ethereum Classic (ETC) is currently the only Turing Complete blockchain that will run on Proof of Work (PoW) forever. It has a limited supply of coins, just like Bitcoin (BTC).
2018-10-9 17:00 | |
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An exchange-traded bitcoin fund (ETF) would signal greater acceptance of bitcoin as a mainstreet investment, while also making it much easier for both institutional and retail investors to get involved.
2018-10-6 01:07 | |
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This rather long meme, which has been circulating lately, makes fun of the views of Bitcoin supporters by listing commonly made statements and contrasting them with contradicting statements or developments.
2018-10-4 22:27 | |
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Cardano, the platform underpinning ADA, the ninth largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is opening its doors to third-party developers through a new client, written in systems programing language Rust.
2018-10-2 16:45 | |
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Parity Technologies has added an early version of ethereum's hotly anticipated Casper code change to its blockchain development platform, Substrate.
2018-10-2 18:30 | |
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Martin Holst Swende who joined the nonprofit Ethereum Foundation in 2016 as the lead security to ensure that any code change within the second largest blockchain platform for the development of decentralized applications do not halt operations in the blockchain had voiced his opinion against the use of ASIC miners in Ethereum mine.
2018-9-29 19:45 | |
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Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape.
2018-9-26 02:13 | |
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Several Chinese researchers from Fudan University, Tsinghua University and the University of California Riverside have produced the first systematic study of the malicious mining of cryptocurrencies, known as cryptojacking, unveiling increasing complexity over time.
2018-9-25 23:59 | |
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Ethereum is embracing the Constantinople milestone at the end of November 2018, after DevCon4 in Prague. Constantinople is the latest Ethereum release, introduced through a hard fork, that will include five Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs):Bitwise shifting instructions (EIP 145) in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) allow for direct manipulation of bytes on the EVM layer.
2018-9-11 18:15 | |
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Two crypto companies, Gemini Trust and Paxos, got a green light from a New York state regulator to launch their own stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U. S. dollar. New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) gave an okay to Gemini Trust, the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, to launch Gemini Dollar (GUSD).
2018-9-11 01:58 | |
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Ever since the Verge (XVG) network was hacked back in May, and millions of dollars of the digital asset fraudulently minted, there has been an effort by the project’s core developers to change the codebase of the platform.
2018-9-5 19:34 | |
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Ethereum developers have decided to delay the “Difficulty Bomb” by agreeing to include the code for such a change into Metropolis’ hard fork—Constantinople. The core developers decided on a video call, streamed live on YouTube on August 31, 2018, to accept the EIP-1234 scenario for the “Difficulty Bomb’s” impact on block rewards.
2018-9-4 16:32 | |
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The Labour government said the bill will give owners of bitcoin and other digital assets greater legal protection.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed Tulip Siddiq as the City Minister, a role that oversees financial services including crypto.
Taiwan's crypto advocacy body, the Taiwan Virtual Asset Service Provider Association, has been formally established and the founding meeting held with 24 cryptocurrency-related entities.
The exchange could return as a FIU-registered firm after paying the fine, the report added.
This is the third test for the Province's new tool to combat money laundering.
The Federal Reserve continues to pilot a central bank digital currency, but will not issue one without executive branch and Congressional support, the report said.
India's most controversial crypto tax, the 1% TDS levy deducted at source, should be lowered to 0.01%, according to the findings of a new study.