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United Kingdom-based Bitcoin exchange CoinCorner has become the latest major trading platform to support the Lightning Network. Traders can now use Lightning via CoinCorner’s website, with a mobile implementation in the works. CoinCorner Seamlessly Launches Lightning Support Lightning, which allows Bitcoin users to send transactions near-instantly and at negligible
China's Bitcoin miners may be eyeing Sweden and the Nordic countries as a new home, but they may be crucially ignoring another place much closer to home. In a report released last month, Bitcoin mining and media firm HASHR8 identified Kazakhstan as a low-key newcomer in Bitcoin'
Bitcoin transactions may be taking longer to clear and cost more than usual for some, but that may be because the network is handling more than it has in a long time. According to data from monitoring resource transactionfee.info, this month has seen Bitcoin process a record number of
News • Bitcoin • Jan 19, 2021
Bitcoin transactions may be taking longer to clear and cost more than usual for some, but that may be because the network is handling more than it has in a long time. According to data from monitoring resource transactionfee.info, this month has seen Bitcoin process a record number of
News • Bitcoin • Jan 19, 2021
United Kingdom-based Bitcoin exchange CoinCorner has become the latest major trading platform to support the Lightning Network. Traders can now use Lightning via CoinCorner’s website, with a mobile implementation in the works. CoinCorner Seamlessly Launches Lightning Support Lightning, which allows Bitcoin users to send transactions near-instantly and at negligible
News • Business • Jan 07, 2021
China's Bitcoin miners may be eyeing Sweden and the Nordic countries as a new home, but they may be crucially ignoring another place much closer to home. In a report released last month, Bitcoin mining and media firm HASHR8 identified Kazakhstan as a low-key newcomer in Bitcoin'
News • Bitcoin • Jan 01, 2021
Bitcoin has kicked off the year with strength, sitting at $29,400 on the first day of 2021, over 300 percent higher than on the same day in 2020. The past year has been one of accelerated recognition for Bitcoin as it has been increasingly talked about for its capabilities
News • Technology • Jan 01, 2021
In May this year, Bitcoin Core contributors Gleb Naumenko and Antoine Riard proposed the use of Fidelity Bonds for LN Routing to prevent channel jamming, a type of denial-of-service (DOS) attack that can occur on the Lightning Network. Channel jamming, first described in 2015 by Rusty Russell, usually describes a
interview • Technology • Dec 13, 2020
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 28, 2020
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
News • Bitcoin • Nov 18, 2020
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
News • Bitcoin • Nov 16, 2020