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How to Watch the Bitcoin Cash Fork As It Happens

Part system upgrade, part political battle, Thursday's BCH hard fork could get interesting.

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CoinDesk Launches the Crypto-Economics Explorer, A New Way to Visualize Crypto

CoinDesk is pleased to announce the launch of our new data product, the Crypto-Economics Explorer.

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The $799 Coinmine One Will Look Like an Xbox and Mint Crypto Money

A new firm called Coinmine has announced a device aimed at enthusiasts who'd like to mine crypto, but don't want to learn a new technical skill set.

Coinmine One courtesy of Coinmine.

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Bitcoin Cash's 'Mining War' Escalates as Blockchain Hard Fork Approaches

Over the past day, bitcoin cash mining pools supporting Craig Wright's Bitcoin SV have consolidated even more of the relative amount of hash power.

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Hash Power Favors Craig Wright Camp in Looming Bitcoin Cash Fork

Early data suggests that the Bitcoin SV implementation of the bitcoin cash fork may enjoy more hash power than Bitcoin ABC.

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A 7-Year Legal Fight Led This Dev to Build Unstoppable Ethereum Storage

Developer Daniel Nagy's legal battle over a file-sharing node led him to develop ethereum's storage layer, Swarm.

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Ethereum Sets Tentative January Goal for Next Blockchain Upgrade

Ethereum developers have tentatively agreed a mid-January deadline for the network's upcoming Constantinople hard fork.

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Carbon's Stablecoin Can Now Be Swapped Between EOS and Ethereum

The interoperable dollar-pegged crypto token CarbonUSD has just launched as the first stablecoin on the EOS platform.

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Crypto Exchanges Must 'Grow or Die,' Says Exec at Fintech Firm Cinnober

Cinnober, a fintech company founded a full decade before the bitcoin white paper came out, wants to help today's crypto trading platforms mature.

Eric Wall, crypto and blockchain lead at Cinnober

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The Little-Known Ways Ethereum Reveals User Location Data

At Devcon4, Geth developer Péter Szilágyi detailed the little-known ways that data about ethereum users can become public.

(CoinDesk archives)