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Well-known developer explained why Bitcoin hard fork is unacceptable for protection against “51% attack”

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Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell said that people calling for a bitcoin hard fork to provide protection against a “51% attack” demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of the first cryptocurrency. Greg Maxwell responds to the question: “Why not hard-fork Bitcoin to make it less vulnerable to 51% attacks?” (HT @AlyseKilleen) pic.twitter.com/k9yb9KBc9I – Tuur Demeester (@TuurDemeester) October 6, 2019 He explained , Oh really […]

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Bitcoin developers have proposed abandoning BIP70. This threatens the processing of BitPay

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In the new version of the Bitcoin Core client (0.19.0), they proposed to get rid of the BIP70 scheme and implement the default generation. Soon: Bitcoin Core 0.19.0 – Good things from r / Bitcoin BIP70 is a payment protocol that assigns a wallet URL instead of a simple address. This URL responds to the Get request, after which the merchant server sends the address and payment amount. BIP70 introduces a requirement for […]

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Bitcoin transaction recorded at $ 1 billion with an unusually high commission of

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On the night of Friday, September 6, an unusually large transaction was recorded on the Bitcoin network in the amount of 94,504 BTC (more than $ 1 billion at the current rate). The commission of $ 700 became even more unusual. According to Whale Alert's Twitter account, previously unknown wallets that did not belong to any exchange were involved in the transaction. One of them translated 56% […]

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The creator of SegWit introduced the new language of smart contracts Bitcoin

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Bitcoin Core developer Peter Velle introduced Miniscript, a new programming language to simplify the development of smart contracts for the Bitcoin network. After publishing the corresponding message in the newsletter for Bitcoin developers, Peter Velle noted that the work on Miniscript lasted almost a year, and Andrew Poelstra and Sanket Sanyalkar also participated in it. Just announced our Miniscript project website on the bitcoin-dev […]

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Bitcoin Core 0.18.1

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On Friday, August 9, the developers of the most popular Bitcoin core network client Bitcoin Core announced the release of a new version of the software. Bitcoin Core 0.18.1 Released! Https: //t.co/uSV3Mxfk6G – Bitcoin Core Project (@bitcoincoreorg) August 9, 2019 Version 0.18.1 contains minor changes and innovations aimed mainly at improving performance and eliminating minor bugs. Recall, a larger update to Bitcoin Core took place on 2 […]

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