Bitcoin'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
Last 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
Lightning 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
Lightning 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
Bitcoin'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
Last 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
Many 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
Lightning 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
Today marks the Bitcoin white paper's 12th birthday: on October 31st of 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published to the Cryptography Mailing List the nine pages that made history. Since then, the world’s first peer-to-peer electronic cash system has come a long way.
Since Satoshi sent the first 50
Non-custodial Bitcoin desktop wallet Wasabi Wallet has gained considerable traction since its launch as a preferred tool for bitcoiners seeking increased transactional privacy. Wasabi is possibly best known for its integrated CoinJoin solution, a privacy-enhancing technology that obfuscates the origin of UTXOs.
On Thursday, the developers behind Wasabi Wallet announced
Over the past few days, multiple users on Twitter have noted a decline in the Bitcoin user experience. Transaction fees have increased from an average of $1-3 toward $7 and beyond.
This is the result of a drop in the Bitcoin network hash rate. The hash rate is the metric
