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Bitcoin Scaling Comes to CoinCorner as Exchange Launches Lightning Network Support
Bitcoin Scaling Comes to CoinCorner as Exchange Launches Lightning Network Support
News  •  Business  •  Jan 07, 2021 by Sean Jarvis

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

Why More Bitcoin Miners Now Choose Kazakhstan
Why More Bitcoin Miners Now Choose Kazakhstan
News  •  Bitcoin  •  Jan 01, 2021 by Sean Jarvis

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 Mempool Stays Cool as Payment Numbers Pass 2017 Record
Bitcoin Mempool Stays Cool as Payment Numbers Pass 2017 Record

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
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Bitcoin Mempool Stays Cool as Payment Numbers Pass 2017 Record
Bitcoin Mempool Stays Cool as Payment Numbers Pass 2017 Record

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 Scaling Comes to CoinCorner as Exchange Launches Lightning Network Support
Bitcoin Scaling Comes to CoinCorner as Exchange Launches Lightning Network Support

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
Why More Bitcoin Miners Now Choose Kazakhstan
Why More Bitcoin Miners Now Choose Kazakhstan

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
The Lightning Network's 2020
The Lightning Network's 2020

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
Channel Jamming Attacks on the Lightning Network: A Deep-Dive
Channel Jamming Attacks on the Lightning Network: A Deep-Dive

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
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Increases By 8.87%
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Increases By 8.87%

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
CCB’s $3B Bond Purchasable with Bitcoin Has Been Postponed
CCB’s $3B Bond Purchasable with Bitcoin Has Been Postponed

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
Mining Pools Poolin, Slush & BTC.com Announce Support for Taproot
Mining Pools Poolin, Slush & BTC.com Announce Support for Taproot

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
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