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China Construction Bank (CCB), the world’s second-largest financial player by market cap, has postponed the issuance of Longbond, a $3 billion blockchain-issued bond that would track the price of government bonds, as per a new announcement. “Per the request of the issuer, Longbond Ltd., the listing of Longbond SR
As the BTC Times reported, the implementation of the Schnorr/Taproot consensus rules were merged into the Bitcoin Core repository in October. The next step will be to discuss how the upgrade is to be activated on Bitcoin’s mainnet. This discussion is now taking a step forward, with Bitcoin
Following Bitcoin's bi-weekly difficulty adjustment, mining difficulty has increased by 8.87 percent today, sitting at 19.16 T—4.4 percent lower than its difficulty all-time high, which was recorded in October this year. The hash rate is the measure of computational power that is being allocated
News - Technology - Nov 29, 2020Following Bitcoin's bi-weekly difficulty adjustment, mining difficulty has increased by 8.87 percent today, sitting at 19.16 T—4.4 percent lower than its difficulty all-time high, which was recorded in October this year. The hash rate is the measure of computational power that is being allocated
News - Technology - Nov 29, 2020China Construction Bank (CCB), the world’s second-largest financial player by market cap, has postponed the issuance of Longbond, a $3 billion blockchain-issued bond that would track the price of government bonds, as per a new announcement. “Per the request of the issuer, Longbond Ltd., the listing of Longbond SR
News - Bitcoin - Nov 19, 2020As the BTC Times reported, the implementation of the Schnorr/Taproot consensus rules were merged into the Bitcoin Core repository in October. The next step will be to discuss how the upgrade is to be activated on Bitcoin’s mainnet. This discussion is now taking a step forward, with Bitcoin
News - Bitcoin - Nov 17, 2020Lightning Network-based Bitcoin derivatives exchange LNMarkets this week reported a rapid uptick in trading volume on its platform, as 40 percent of its aggregate trading volume was recorded in the past month. LNMarkets launched on the Bitcoin mainnet in March, facilitating trades exclusively via Lightning. Although still in its alpha
News - Bitcoin - Nov 12, 2020Bitcoin's hash rate faced a strong correction in October. From all-time highs near 160 exahashes per second, the metric dropped by approximately 45% to lows around 90 exahashes per second. As the BTC Times reported previously, analysts believed the drop to be the result of Bitcoin miners in
News - Bitcoin - Nov 10, 2020Last month, the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) pertaining to the integration of Taproot and Schnorr signatures were merged into the Bitcoin Core Github. As the BTC Times reported, 150 Bitcoin Core developers approved the merge after seven weeks of review following a merge request first created by Pieter Wuille. Schnorr
News - Bitcoin - Nov 05, 2020Many of us dabble with Bitcoin but seldom actually get our hands dirty in the nitty-gritty - yet that's often where the benefits lie. Hosting your own Bitcoin node, for example, not only steadies and decentralizes the network, but it can confer greater user privacy and security. For
News - Bitcoin - Nov 05, 2020Lightning Network development startup Lightning Labs is rolling out a new product: dubbed Lightning Pool, the new tool seeks to bring together node operators to trade access inbound and outbound Lightning channel capacity with each other. With the launch, Lightning Labs tackles one of the Lightning Network's major
News - Bitcoin - Oct 31, 2020