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Hardware 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
On 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
Today, 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 25, 2020
Today, 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 25, 2020
Hardware 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 16, 2020
On 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 14, 2020
Over the past two weeks, there have been fears that Bitcoin miners have become unprofitable. Early in the month, an image circulated online of Bitcoin miners liquidating thousands of coins, sparking fears of a so-called miner capitulation event. Recent blockchain data, however, indicates that this is far from the case.
Bitcoin • Technology • Sep 14, 2020
Bitcoin Core has taken a significant step forward in implementing Schnorr signatures by merging BIP340 support into the libsecp256k1 library. The update introduces an experimental module named “schnorrsig” that implements the signing and verification of Schnorr signatures as well as test vectors and a benchmarking tool. Although this does not
News • Bitcoin • Sep 10, 2020
It goes without saying that the concept of decentralized money and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are at odds. Hence, the U.S. tax agency has recently increased its efforts to crack down on tax crime enabled by Bitcoin and related technologies. In an August New York Times
News • Bitcoin • Sep 10, 2020
A smart contract was recently deployed on the Bitcoin network to place a $10,000 bet on the outcome of the upcoming US presidential election, marking the first such instance of its kind. On September 8th, Nicolas Dorier, the founder of open-source Bitcoin payment processor BTCPay Server, said he used
News • Bitcoin • Sep 10, 2020
Peer-to-peer trading platform Bisq will soon add support for Segregated Witness (SegWit), according to a tweet on Saturday. Activated in August of 2017, SegWit introduced a number of improvements to Bitcoin’s performance, including an increase in Bitcoin’s theoretical block size that enabled fee savings for users, as well
News • Bitcoin • Sep 06, 2020