Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Anatoly Yakovenko, one of the co-founders of Solana, the proof-of-stake based, smart contracts enabled blockchain, issued a series of statements criticizing bitcoin’s consensus algorithm. In an interview on CNBC, Yakovenko stated that bitcoin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The Indian government is exploring “several commercial use purposes and not just financial inclusion” for its central bank digital currency. India’s finance minister clarified that the aim is for the digital rupee, which...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Investors will be focused on the U.S. central bank this Wednesday as Federal Reserve policymakers are expected to raise the benchmark interest rate aggressively. The top U.S. stock indexes saw significant losses at the end of the week, and the Nasdaq...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
script - How did testnet transaction b6714e05dd014cc92de09271886e62d85e7d41dd44fad417c520eb51d57f94c0 validate? - Bitcoin Stack Exchange Bitcoin Stack Exchange is a question and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Switzerland’s central bank, the Swiss National Bank, says buying and holding bitcoin as a reserve currency is not a problem for the bank. “We can arrange the technical and operative conditions relatively quickly, when we are convinc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
Transaction fees are paid when transacting, not when trading, or at least not necessarily. Assuming you're trading on an exchange site, you will have an account there. You can buy and sell BTC for other currencies, but all that is happening is that...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, says that he does not particularly like crypto but will defend your right to invest in it. However, he sees benefits in some aspects of digital currency. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon on Crypto, Digital Currenc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
It is not possible to have two valid Bitcoin addresses that differ only in their last 5 characters at all, as those only contain checksum data. For bech32/bech32m addresses (bc1...), that's even true for the last 6 characters. In theory, it is possi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The finance department of the U.S. state of Idaho has warned investors of a series of cryptocurrency scams promising returns as high as 80% every 24 hours with no risks to investors. Crypto Scams Promising High Returns The Idaho Department of Finance...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) have been acquiring high ticket items over the last 12 months and on April 28, the Degods DAO revealed it acquired a Big3 professional basketball team called the “Killer 3s.” The Big...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
After El Salvador’s move to give Bitcoin a legal tender, the National Assembly of the Central American country, Panama, passed a bill on Thursday to enact regulations for the commercialization and use of cryptocurrency in the republic. If the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
A draft law tailored to regulate cryptocurrency mining has been filed with the lower house of Russian parliament, the State Duma. The legislation provides a legal definition for the extraction of digital currencies and envisages the establishment of...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
A survey from CoinGecko depicts that above fifty percent of respondents foresee a crucial role for NFTs’ business in the future and have adopted the HODL investment strategy. Since 2014, non-fungible tokens have played a role in the cryptocurr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
I have been one of your users for many years. Although I did not always use your program, I used it most of the time FREE ROLLS PLAYED 1,741 MULTIPLY BTC ROLLS PLAYED 141,193 TOTAL PAYOUTS 0.00155077 But not once did I win any jackp...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
In the custom uint256 encoding used in Bitcoin, bit 0x00800000 denotes the sign, so 0x1CFFFFFF actually denotes the value -2200(223 - 1). Obviously the target value cannot go negative, so this aspect of the encoding is not useful in this context, bu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Three years ago there were a lot of discussions concerning data embedded in bitcoin transactions and the block size space consumed by these OP_Return transactions. However, in recent times, the use of OP_Return transactions has dropped a great deal a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
According to a report from the blockchain company Blocsec, Rari Capital’s Fuse platform has lost roughly $80 million from a “reentrancy vulnerability.” On Saturday, Fei Protocol’s official Twitter account confirmed...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Considering the higher risk involved in cryptocurrency, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has tightened the procedure to approve a crypto license for digital asset providers, making the regime a “responsible global crypto hub.” Ravi Menon, th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The Brazilian Senate has approved a recently presented cryptocurrency policy, advancing the project to discussions in the deputy chamber. The proposal will have to be greenlighted by the deputies of Congress and signed by President Jair Bolsonaro to...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
FTM was down by as much as 12% to start the weekend, as crypto markets were once again under a red wave. ATOM was also victim to this wave, falling to its lowest level since last August during Saturday’s session. Fantom (FTM) Fantom (FTM) was...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Bitcoin and ethereum were both trading lower to start the weekend, as crypto markets continued to face bearish pressures. The current uncertainty surrounding next week’s Federal Reserve meeting has seen prices consolidate for most of the week,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Decentralized finance is a thriving industry, but there is much room for improvement. The lending segment can benefit greatly from under-collateralized loans. Hashstack brings that option to market as its Open Protocol is now on the public testnet. O...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The U.S. Labor Department has “grave concerns” about Fidelity Investments allowing investors to put bitcoin into their 401(k) accounts for retirement savings. An official of the Labor Department said it risks the retirement secu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
synchronization - Why Don't Nodes Download Blocks off the network directly instead of sending various messages to other nodes? - Bitcoin Stack Exchange Bitcoin Stack Exchange is...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Crypto asset exchange of digital assets Binance has suspended accounts with ties to Russian government officials’ relatives. Faced with escalating international sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the trading platform s...
