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JK Rowling Asks About Bitcoin. Accursed Crypto Twitter Scares Her Off
It took only three (3) hours for Crypto Twitter to scare JK Rowling away from bitcoin.
'History Has Repeated': F2Pool Explains Message in Last Block Before Bitcoin Halving
F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun tells Consensus: Distributed why he chose a $2.3T NY Times headline for Bitcoin's last block before the halving.
BitMEX Is Making Bitcoin Network More Expensive for Everyone, Researcher Finds
Average fees paid by bitcoin users spike at a certain time every day due to the actions of one firm, derivatives exchange BitMEX, a researcher found.
Bitcoin Wallets Are Adopting This Tech to Simplify Lightning Payments
Bitcoin’s Lightning network has a long way to go in terms of user experience. To tackle this problem, a standard known as lnurl is quietly gaining ground.
BTCPay Looks to Anonymize Bitcoin Transactions With PayJoin Integration
PayJoin is a relatively new way to send private transactions in bitcoin and may offer better privacy than current popular alternatives.
Bitcoin Cash Approaches Milestone With First Halving Expected Wednesday
The event is a foreshadowing of the same process happening on a larger scale on the BTC blockchain next month.
Bitcoin's Future: Exactly How a Coming Upgrade Could Improve Privacy and Scaling
If the privacy and scaling upgrade Schnorr/Taproot makes it into bitcoin (BTC), it could pave the way for advanced and heretofore impossible projects.
New Software Fix Offers Bitcoin Miners Increased Security
Startup Braiins has released the first functioning code for a new protocol designed to fix longstanding security problems with bitcoin mining pools.
GitHub Is Burying Bitcoin Code Inside an Arctic Mountain to Ride Out the Next 1,000 Years
Deep inside a forsaken coal mine on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, the Bitcoin Core code repository will be kept on film reels and stored for centuries.
Crypto-Powered Internet Helps Rural Residents Work From Home During Coronavirus
Althea brings the internet to under-served places, offering households crypto to be part of a mesh system.
