A $13,500 Bitcoin Looks Inevitable as Price Fixes “Overbought” Worries
A combination of supportive fundamental and technical catalysts are pointing towards an extended Bitcoin bull run. The BTC/USD exchange rate kicked off the new week in positive territory on signs of institutional adoption, lower sell-off sentiment, and the global market uncertainty over the second coronavirus fiscal aid and the November 3 presidential election. The pair […]
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Bitcoin's eighth birthday was marked by a new software update. Though all eyes may have been on the escalating price, Tuesday's software upgrade (to version 0.13.2) is the latest of many "minor version releases" published by the volunteer developer group known popularly as Bitcoin Core. It might not be as big of a release as say, 0.13.0, but it rounds up a number of bug and performance fixes, including an upgrade that will allow the built-in wallet to react to memory pool (mempool) changes more appropriately. Other improvements include increased block relay speed on the network....
So now bitcoin price has gone down again. After a recent surge of about $20 that got digital currency enthusiasts everywhere feeling pretty happy again, the price has now gone down by about $10 and is hovering around the $233 line. Naturally, many of us are pretty disappointed, and yet at the same time, such a drop was to be expected. With the recent malicious activity striking bitcoin exchanges all over the globe, a bitcoin price drop was probably inevitable. We saw similar circumstances with the Bitstamp hacking, and now we're likely to see it again here, especially considering there....
Updated with commentary from core developer Mike Hearn. Update 20th March 6:30 pm GMT: Updated with commentary from BitMonet founder and developer Ankur Nandwani. Update 21st March 6:30 pm GMT: Updated with commentary from bitcoin developer Peter Todd. Bitcoin's core developers have released the latest update to the bitcoin reference client, version 0.9.0, which includes transaction malleability-related fixes, as well as updates to how transactions are relayed on the network. Version 0.9.0 notably includes coin control features and a Windows 64-bit installer, among other updates, bug fixes....
Bitcoin 0.8.6 was officially released this week and the incremental update brings a few bug fixes and some nifty features, such as relaxed restrictions on block size. The biggest changes affect block size. The maximum size of free transactions is now 1,000 bytes instead of 10,000 bytes, allowing more transactions per block. Since each block allows 27,000 bytes for free transactions, this means that as many as 27 free transactions will be available per block, up from three or less in 0.8.5 and previous releases. The minimum output requirement of 0.01 BTC has been dropped, too. The....