Bitcoin and 2015: The Final Countdown
There’s three months left to the year end of 2015 and the Bitcoin environment has been getting pretty exciting. With many new announcements and the 2015 venture capital investment numbers trumping 2014, people should be pleased. The beginning of the fall has introduced some great crypto-innovations and ideas that should flourish in 2016 and beyond.....
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Faster Block Intervals Suggest Bitcoin Halving Could Happen in 2023
Just recently, at block height 757,214, mined on October 5, 2022, Bitcoin’s total hashrate tapped an all-time high (ATH) at 321.15 exahash....
Bitcoin Core’s innovative solution designed to scale the Bitcoin network by moving witness data outside the traditional block structure is finally approaching its release. The Bitcoin Core team announced on Twitter that the Segregated Witness release is on its “final countdown,” with various tests and necessary information in place to upgrade the Bitcoin network. Segregated Witness is a sophisticated scaling technology designed to provide two major benefits to Bitcoin miners, users, and businesses: elimination of malleability and capacity increase. Initially, the Segwit proposal was....
Last week I linked to a countdown timer that Coinbase put up on their website, titled “Lunar,” containing the text “to the moon” in the page source, and accompanied with some epic space music from Interstellar. Needless to say, there was a lot of hype surrounding the countdown. A few hours before the timer hit zero, it was revealed that the new product....
The new feature has been added with just days left until the long-awaited Ethereum Merge. As a sign of support for the upcoming Ethereum Merge, tech juggernaut Google is marking the time left until the upgrade with a new countdown timer. Typing any variation of "Ethereum Merge" or "The Merge" into the search engine shows a countdown ticker, with the estimated time left until the Merge based on the current difficulty, hash rate, and merge difficulty.Off to the side is a cartoon of two happy pandas running toward each other with outstretched hands, which supposedly will get closer as the....
The world’s largest ethereum mining pool, Ethermine, has announced the organization plans to drop proof-of-work (PoW) ethereum mining entirely. Ethermine says that the platform’s miner dashboard will display a countdown and users can continue to mine ether until the countdown reaches zero.
Largest Ether Mining Pool to End PoW Ethereum Mining — Ethermine Ethereum Mining Pool Will Switch to Withdraw-Only Mode After the Merge
According to a recent announcement from the world’s largest ethereum mining pool, Ethermine, the platform plans to halt ETH mining....