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On August 18, a solo miner managed to solve block 803,821, securing a remarkable 6.25 Bitcoin block reward valued at $160,000. This is a very rare event as lone miners have a lower chance of mining a block due to the increase in mining difficulty and this solo miner became the 277th solo miner in bitcoin’s history to achieve this. Solo Bitcoin Miner Makes History The solo miner was able to pull off this remarkable achievement using the Solo CKpool mining service. The miner identified with the tag bc1q2za4ejga366sn288273pty8trasn5zs4y9hqg6 used…
Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied Despite the recent price drop and fading hype over NFTs, Ordinals inscriptions remain prominent on the Bitcoin (BTC) network. On Aug. 21, the developer behind Ordinals, known as “Leonidas,” revealed that Bitcoin had processed 530,788 transactions in the past 24 hours. Impressively, 450,785 of these transactions were related to Ordinals, accounting for 84.9% of the activity on Bitcoin. Over the past 24 hours Bitcoin had 530,788 transactions. 450,785 of those transactions were Ordinals related. In the…
“As market is very volatile, there is a potential risk that if liquidated, this large portion of BNB may cause more cascading liquidations effect and unnecessary damage to the market and cause more risks to Venus, Venus users, BNB token and BNB Chain,” Venus said in a since-passed proposal in November 2022, where BNB Chain was appointed as the sole liquidator of the BNB Chain exploiter address. Source
Blockchain sleuths have flagged the transfer of $1 million of ETH belonging to a wallet controlled by Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin as cryptocurrency markets remain depressed after widespread weekend losses. #PeckShieldAlert vitalik.eth has transferred 600 $ETH (~$1M) to #Coinbase pic.twitter.com/XVTwLqPENM — PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) August 21, 2023 The publicly labeled Ethereum wallet address vitalik.eth transferred 600 ETH on Aug. 21, with the address still holding over 3,900 ETH valued at $6.5 million as per data from Etherscan. Blockchain data analysis from Lookonchain also revealed that vitalik.eth repaid 251,000 RAI tokens…
On-chain data shows the XRP whales have been sharply accumulating recently, something that can help the price recover. XRP Whales Have Continued To Expand Their Holdings Recently According to data from the on-chain analytics firm Santiment, the largest of the XRP investors have been buying in recent days. The relevant indicator here is the “Supply Distribution,” which tells us about the total amount of the asset that each holder group in the market is carrying in their combined wallets right now. The addresses or investors are divided into these groups…
Let’s do a simple exercise, shall we? Try to imagine a world where innovations in banking, finance, power, medical services and social media are the best they have ever been. One where these industries and several others are powered entirely by unbreakable, difficult-to-hack-or-crack streams of data. A world where this kind of superpowered data is run by powerful algorithms, and is capable of learning, updating and improving itself. Do you think such a world is possible? It might be closer than you think. Over the last decade, AI and blockchain have…
Major cryptocurrencies traded flat over the weekend, with alternative tokens showing muted price movement as markets seemed to stabilize following one of the largest liquidation events in recent months. Bitcoin remained steady at around $26,000 with ether little changed from Sunday’s $1,670. “So long as bitcoin continues to hold above $25,000 on a weekly close basis, we suspect we will see renewed demand and a push back to the topside in the days ahead,” crypto exchange LMAX Digital said in a morning note. “If this happens, ether and the rest…
“For BTC, I think market makers’ hedging contributed to the price drop, but for ETH, it was a key factor that prevented the price from falling sharply,” Ardern said. “ETH had solid positive gamma near the strike price of around $1,600, and its total gamma is still positive, which means that when the price falls, market makers are buyers rather than sellers.” Original
Shibarium, the much-anticipated layer-2 network of Shiba Inu is back online but remains under the radar, confined to an extensive private test phase. Shytoshi Kusama, the project’s lead developer, unveiled this update on Saturday. In his remarks, Kusama assured the community that they have resolved all technical challenges previously encountered on this layer-2 platform. Kusama mentioned, “Shibarium is currently live (but in private mode) producing blocks as normal.” He further emphasized the importance of ensuring optimal scaling and functionality before a public re-release, suggesting that the SHIB development team is…