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BlueWallet, a Bitcoin-based mobile wallet, just shipped its latest update. Among a litany of fixes, the wallet now allows users to mix coins, conferring additional transaction privacy. The inbuilt mixer, known as PayJoin, is a CoinJoin variant occurring between two parties that obscures transaction origins, making them harder to trace.
One part of a 40-piece artwork tribute to Bitcoin’s 12.3 million-digit code is going under the hammer at auction house Christie's in New York on October 7th, allowing enthusiasts to purchase and save a symbolic physical piece of the pioneer cryptocurrency forever. Up for sale at
The implementation of the Schnorr/Taproot consensus rules has been merged into Bitcoin Core. However, the upgrade's activation method has yet to be determined. The pull request was originally created by Bitcoin Core contributor Pieter Wuille on September 13th and has gone through extensive review and testing over
News - Bitcoin - Oct 15, 2020The implementation of the Schnorr/Taproot consensus rules has been merged into Bitcoin Core. However, the upgrade's activation method has yet to be determined. The pull request was originally created by Bitcoin Core contributor Pieter Wuille on September 13th and has gone through extensive review and testing over
News - Bitcoin - Oct 15, 2020BlueWallet, a Bitcoin-based mobile wallet, just shipped its latest update. Among a litany of fixes, the wallet now allows users to mix coins, conferring additional transaction privacy. The inbuilt mixer, known as PayJoin, is a CoinJoin variant occurring between two parties that obscures transaction origins, making them harder to trace.
News - Bitcoin - Oct 08, 2020One part of a 40-piece artwork tribute to Bitcoin’s 12.3 million-digit code is going under the hammer at auction house Christie's in New York on October 7th, allowing enthusiasts to purchase and save a symbolic physical piece of the pioneer cryptocurrency forever. Up for sale at
News - Bitcoin - Oct 07, 2020A recent test by Casa co-founder Jameson Lopp revealed that enabling the GLV Endomorphism implementation for Bitcoin Core can make the network faster and more efficient by several notches. Lopp tweeted Monday, “I ran 4 different syncs of Bitcoin Core to benchmark the real-world performance improvements offered by enabling GLV
News - Bitcoin - Oct 01, 2020A new wallet designed for the next wave of Bitcoin and Liquid asset adoption Bitcoin’s leading sidechain, the Liquid Network, is about to get a lot easier to use following today’s release of AQUA, a simple iOS mobile wallet designed for the mass adoption of digital assets. “We
Press Release - Bitcoin - Sep 29, 2020Today, a patent involving the acceleration of cryptographic operations on elliptic curves has expired. Invented by Gallant, Lambert, and Vanstone, this technique is commonly referred to as GLV Endomorphism and can now be activated in Bitcoin Core in order to improve the speed and efficiency of Bitcoin’s signature verification.
News - Bitcoin - Sep 26, 2020Hardware wallet firm Ledger has rolled out its latest update for its mobile companion Ledger Live, rendering an additional layer of privacy controls for Bitcoin transactions. The new feature, dubbed "Coin Control," allows users of Ledger Live to manually select which addresses and which portion of funds to
News - Bitcoin - Sep 17, 2020On Wednesday, Lightning Labs announced the addition of an accounting feature as part of the latest release of Faraday, a management tool for node operators using LND, Lightning Labs' implementation of the Lightning Network. According to Lightning Labs, the accounting tools were developed in response to feedback from business
Bitcoin - Technology - Sep 15, 2020