Several Stellar Nodes Go Offline, Team Says Network ‘Still Functioning’ Though Some Transactions Fail
The node outage has led to some exchanges halting withdrawals.
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Oil and Gas Miner Teams With Canadian Tech Firm for Green Bitcoin Mining
Fortress Technology hopes to increase its hashrate nearly tenfold through the partnership.
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Marathon Patent Mined 196 Bitcoin in Q1, Sees Having 100K+ Miners Online by Early 2022
Marathon’s ASIC spending spree is one of many, and it could signal that bitcoin’s hashrate will hit new highs still this year.
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Bitcoin's Lightning Network Now Has 10K Active Nodes and $69M in Locked Value
The network has quietly grown by a factor of two over the past year, with everyday users and major exchanges embracing the scaling technology.
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Decentralized DNS Project Handshake Patches Inflation Bug
Given its severity, the team had to coordinate with miners to fix the flaw with an emergency soft fork.
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Publicly Traded Fintech Firm Agrees to Acquire Chinese Mining Farm for $9M
Future FinTech's buy is in line with the legacy finance and tech sector taking increasing interest in bitcoin of late.
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‘Blockchain Recovery’ Scam Is Posing as a Legit Firm, UK FCA Warns
The “clone” firm has been emailing and cold-calling investors and using the real company’s Firm Reference Number with a fake name, the regulator said.
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FinCEN Names Former Chainalysis Advisor Acting Director as Blanco Resigns
Governments are becoming increasingly interested in crypto transaction surveillance, as FinCEN's hire suggests.
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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits All-Time High as Delayed ASIC Shipments Come Online
The adjustment, spurred forth by fleets of newly booted ASICs, could be a harbinger of even larger difficulty increases in the coming year.
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Liquality Adds New 1-Click Pay Feature, Looks Toward Bitcoin DeFi
The wallet's new feature comes soon after it integrated RSK in an effort to bring more decentralized finance options to bitcoin users.
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