State of Lightning: What's the Path for Network Adoption in 2019?
The "instant payments" network running atop bitcoin saw fast user adoption levels in 2018. Will the trend continue this year?
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Bitfury Releases Merchant, Developer Tools for Bitcoin's Lighting Network
Blockchain technology firm Bitfury has released a suite tools aimed to drive adoption of bitcoin’s lightning network.
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Jan 23, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. UTC
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Ethereum Devs Propose Activating Constantinople Hard Fork in Late February
After a security vulnerability was found in ethereum's next system-wide upgrade just days prior to activation, core developers now hope to execute the upgrade at the end of Fe...
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Jan 18, 2019 at 3:10 p.m. UTC
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One Year Later, What's Holding Back SegWit Adoption on Bitcoin?
SegWit was activated on the bitcoin network over a year ago. But only an estimated 36 percent of all bitcoin transactions are using it. Why?
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Jan 17, 2019 at 3:05 a.m. UTC
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'Critical' Vulnerability in Beam Wallet Could Have Put Funds At Risk, Devs Say After Fix
The "critical vulnerability" found by developers of the mimblewimble privacy coin Beam is said to have put user funds at possible risk of being stolen.
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Jan 16, 2019 at 5:45 p.m. UTC
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Ethereum Clients Release New Software In Wake of Hard Fork Delay
Major ethereum clients are releasing new versions of their software to prevent the now-delayed Constantinople hard fork from triggering.
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Jan 15, 2019 at 11:08 p.m. UTC
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Ethereum's Constantinople Upgrade Faces Delay Due to Security Vulnerability
Ethereum's major Constantinople upgrade was delayed after blockchain audit firm ChainSecurity discovered a security issue with one of the changes.
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Jan 15, 2019 at 8:19 p.m. UTC
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First Grin Block Mined as Mimblewimble Privacy Crypto Goes Live
Grin, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency built on "mimblewimble" tech, has gone live on mainnet.
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Jan 15, 2019 at 5:44 p.m. UTC
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Fee Spike on Ethereum Classic Raises Fears of More Exchange Attacks
Abnormal network activity this past Sunday on ethereum classic caused certain miners to receive thousands of dollars in payout. These peculiar transactions also caused average...
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Jan 14, 2019 at 10:00 p.m. UTC
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Google Policy Change Forces Bitcoin Wallet to Remove Security Features
Privacy-focused bitcoin wallet Samourai said Google's "extremely restrictive policies" forced exclusion of key security and privacy focused features from its application.
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Jan 11, 2019 at 7:00 a.m. UTC
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