Tag: Blocks

Hash Watch: 73% of Bitcoin Cash Blocks Mined With BCHN, Poloniex Launches Fork Futures

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The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) upgrade is 21 days away and there’s a possibility the blockchain may bifurcate on November 15. On Sunday, October 25, statistics show that 731 out of the last 1,000 blocks have been mined using the BCHN full node software. Bitcoin Cash proponents are patiently waiting for the next BCH upgrade that’s roughly three weeks away. News.Bitcoin.com reported on September 1, that due to the contentious Infrastructure Funding Proposal added to Bitcoin ABC’s codebase, the network may split. 23 days later our newsdesk explained around 61% of…

Venezuela Blocks Opposition From Disbursing $18 Million To Health Workers via Bitcoin Exchange Airtm

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Venezuela has blocked the main opposition from distributing $18 million worth of cash previously seized by the U.S. from the Nicolas Maduro government. The money is being dished out via peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto exchange Airtm to 62,000 healthcare workers starting Monday. However, it is not yet clear whether the money at the center of the dispute will be disbursed in cash or bitcoin (BTC). Workers will reportedly be paid $300 each over three months in equal installments. The U.S selected the Juan Guaido-led opposition party to facilitate the distribution. Guaido…

Researcher Re-mines Satoshi’s Bitcoin Blocks To Discover His Secrets

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Sergio Dermain Lerner, a researcher known for looking at the mining patterns of the original Bitcoin (BTC) miner, has turned his attention on the Bitcoin blocks mined by Satoshi Nakamoto. Lerner made a preview of his latest findings available to Cointelegraph. His research is based on the irregular pattern of the Least-Significant-Byte (LSB) of the nonce field of block. This past June, Lerner published a blog that expanded on his original research from 2013. He suggested that for an unknown reason, Satoshi refrained from mining in the first five minutes of…

On-Chain Bitcoin Scaling En Masse Requires Bigger Blocks, Abra CEO Says

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Bill Barhydt, CEO and founder of the Abra digital finance wallet and exchange app, said he sees Bitcoin’s (BTC) blockchain struggling when it comes to on-chain mass adoption of the asset as a store of value, given the asset’s current technology.  “Bitcoin can certainly scale ‘off-chain’ today via third-party custodians such as exchanges and wallets like Abra or other so-called second-layer technologies such as Lightning,” Barhydt told Cointelegraph on July 15.   He added: “When held in that manner Bitcoin’s scalability is probably limitless. However, Bitcoin doesn’t yet have the scalability…

Craig Wright Submits List of Bitcoin Addresses to the Court – Roster Contains Spent Blocks

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On May 21, 2020, the infamous Craig Wright, the man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, submitted a list of blocks and bitcoin addresses to the court that stem from the alleged Tulip Trust. However, armchair sleuths and blockchain analysis shows that a few blocks recorded in Wright’s recently filed list have been spent. Craig Wright Files a New List of Bitcoin Blocks and Addresses That Allegedly Belong to the Tulip Trust(s) The ongoing Kleiman vs. Wright lawsuit is heating up once again, as Craig Wright submitted a list on…

Is 3 Confirmations Still Enough if F2Pool Can Mine 6 Consecutive BTC Blocks?

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Questions about Bitcoin’s security cropped up on May 18, when the F2Pool mining pool mined six consecutive blocks on the BTC blockchain, covering block numbers 630804 to 630809. With many exchanges and other Bitcoin-related services relying on just three confirmations before extracting funds, some asked whether this is still secure enough. Is mining hash power becoming centralized? As Cointelegraph reported, since last week’s Bitcoin halving event, hashrate on the network has dropped 30%. This is largely due to the reduced reward for miners, making mining unprofitable on older machines or…

YouTube Blocks Cointelegraph’s Bitcoin Halving Livestream

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YouTube blocked Cryptox’s live stream of the Bitcoin halving event. YouTube is known to do the same with other cryptocurrency-related content providers. YouTube yesterday canceled Cryptox’s Bitcoin halving live stream. This occurred as the cryptocurrency news outlet was already over six hours and forty-two minutes into the event. Sources say that YouTube blocked the stream and cut off over 2000 subscribers. YouTube had allegedly blocked the content because it was labeled as “harmful” content by the video provider. Cryptox had planned the whole day with relevant content. Personalities in the…

Bitcoin Miners Usually Create 6 Blocks per Hour. They Just Banged Out 16

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In an unusual deviation from the norm, bitcoin miners just produced 16 blocks in 63 minutes, according to the Blockstream bitcoin block explorer. Four of the new blocks were mined within 46 seconds at 19:02 UTC on Friday. Each new bitcoin block is produced every 10 minutes, on average. The exact time required to produce a new block can vary significantly and depends in part on the current mining difficulty level, which adjusts every 2,016 blocks, or approximately once every two weeks.  Bitcoin’s anomalous spree of new blocks was first…

BCH Post Halving: Two Hour Blocks, Hash Rate Hit

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Not even a day has passed since the Bitcoin Cash halving and already the hash rate has taken a hit and block generation slowed significantly. Many predicted that at least some miners would abandon BCH and move to more profitable coins like Bitcoin (BTC) after their rewards were halved from 12.5 to 6.25 BCH. But as hash rates rise and fall each day, the data for BCH is open to interpretation.  Fork.lol shows a 60% fall in the BCH hash rate from 4.36 EH/s yesterday to 1.6 EH/s at the…

T-Minus 1,000 Blocks Until Ethereum’s Istanbul Hard Fork

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As of press time, Ethereum has passed block #9068000, putting it within 1000 blocks of the scheduled Istanbul hard fork, which should take place at around 23:30 UTC. The much-anticipated shift to Istanbul will be the Ethereum network’s first hard fork since February’s Constantinople. Both are stages of a broader phase of ongoing development that began in 2017 called Metropolis.  What is changing? Cointelegraph has covered Ethereum’s ongoing developments extensively, as have the developers. Broadly speaking, Istanbul should be streamlining the network in accordance with Metropolis’s overall goals of scaling…