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More than half of the full nodes in the main Bitcoin network still have not installed the Bitcoin Core client update, which eliminated a critical vulnerability that allowed sabotaging the work of 90% of the nodes for double spending. This was reported at the beginning of the month by the Cointelegraph, citing developer Luke Dash Jr. However, today the situation has not changed. 44.3% […]

The San Francisco-based blockchain-startup Unstoppable Domains declares its mission to fight for Internet freedom, at least in part, control over the registered domains. Now the company’s famous Bitcoin enthusiast Tim Draper Draper Associates has made an important contribution to this initiative, CoinDesk writes. Unstoppable. https://t.co/upx2GcwhPS – Adam Draper ? ? ? (@AdamDraper) May 23, 2019 Draper Associates led the round of financing […]

The creator of the Hashcash algorithm and Blockstream's CEO Adam Beck is convinced that behind the pseudonym of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is hiding one person, and not several people, as is sometimes assumed in the community. He said this in an interview with Cryptofinder.tv on the sidelines of this week’s Consensus conference in New York. He reinforced his faith in this by drawing attention to […]

Sidechain Lumino, created on top of the main Bitcoin network, is a third-level payment solution with support for Ethereum smart contracts, officially launched. This was reported on Tuesday, May 14 at the Consensus 2019 conference in New York by the head of the research and innovation department of the Argentine company RIF Labs, Sergio Lerner. Work on Lumino, which in some ways can be compared with the network of the Lightning Network, was carried out on […]