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SPTs will now use a UTXO-based consensus system, providing many important benefits: Tokens now directly align with bitcoin core logic to take advantage of its best future innovations. Bitcoin is one of the most researched, developed, and widely used blockchains, with proven security and many promising advancements ahead, including MAST & Taproot for smart contracts. These innovations are underpinned by the UTXO model. Multi-Asset Payment Channels / Lightning Network for Tokens. UTXO makes it m...

Apr 26, 2021 Kansas City Chiefs tight end Sean Culkin commits to converting his entire 2021 NFL salary to bitcoin. Sean Culkin, a tight end for the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, has joined the wave of athletes demanding to be paid in bitcoin. “I fully believe Bitcoin is the future of finance and I wanted to prove that I have real skin in the game — not just trying to make a quick buck. I will be converting my entire NFL salary to #Bitcoin,” the athlete tweeted earlier today. Culkin’s base...

Apr 22, 2021 04:41 GMTCrypto News A major power outage in China’s Xinjiang province led to the drop in Bitcoin’s hash rate last week. The massive decline in Bitcoin’s hash rate has benefitted miners but cost users a new high in transaction fees when using the network. Bitcoin’s mining difficulty is expected to be adjusted in early May, leading to adjusted fees.  Bitcoin transaction fees have reached an all-time high amid a massive hash rate decline on the network. Bitcoin hash rate’s...

Apr 20, 2021 A recent plummet in hash rate and spike in transaction fees has raised some questions about Bitcoin’s resilience. But they shouldn’t. Over the weekend, the Bitcoin hash rate dropped off a cliff, leaving many industry participants wondering what had happened. Over the last couple of days, information and context has been provided by industry experts as to what was behind this steep fall in hash rate. For instance, this Twitter thread by Mustafa Yilham does a great job exp...

Is litecoin trending up? This was a common enough refrain a few years ago when we weren’t really sure what was going to happen with cryptocurrency, but it’s now a far less fashionable claim. The value discrepancy between the two currencies is simply so great that litecoin has developed something of a “little brother” association that can be difficult to shake (and which doesn’t bode particularly well for an asset aiming at a robust future). Again, the claim might have been more in tun...

Bitcoin Optech #145: Lightning Network Offers, Taproot And More This week’s newsletter covers using Lightning Network offers to address stuck payments, Taproot activation and more. The Bitcoin Optech newsletter provides readers with a top-level summary of the most … Latest posts by Bitcoin News Editor (see all) Market Summary Retirement Intelligence Risk Disclaimer - By using this web site you agree to its terms and conditions. All materials, including but not limited to articles, directori...

Bitcoin Price Movements A Sideshow From The Incredible Work Being Done, Paolo Ardoino, CTO, Bitfinex Date 19/04/2021 "Bitcoin and other crypto price movements can in some ways be viewed as a sideshow that distracts us from the incredible work that is being done in the blockchain ecosystem. If instead of the bitcoin ticker price there was a mirror displaying all the work of developers and start-ups in the ecosystem of decentralized ledger technology, the world would be amazed at just how we...

BTC Lightning Network is Now Live on OKEx Crypto exchange OKEx says the BTC Lightning Network is now live on its website. By utilizing Lightening, OKEx will be able to facilitate much faster and cheaper BTC transfers. OKEx users are now able to use the Lightning Network for both BTC deposits and withdrawals. OKEx announced the integration of Lightening back in February 2021. The company said that Lightening integration highlights OKEx’s commitment to bringing advanced Bitcoin technology to t...

Bitcoin Core Dev: Miners Upgrading Network is "Attack on Bitcoin" Bitcoin core developer Luke Dashjr has proposed an alternative way to activate Taproot. But critics say he is putting the network at risk. In brief But one well-known Bitcoin developer wants the community to roll with his suggestion. A programme that activates a major privacy upgrade for Bitcoin is primed and ready. But it has reignited a debate about whos allowed to press the launch button: the miners that process Bitcoin blocks...

Pakt Bags, Inc. Launches Investment Campaign to Expand Line of Exceptional Travel Products, raising up to $1.07M Brooklyn, NY, April. 14, 2021 —Pakt, Inc., a company that createsgear built for the modern traveler, ... SKILLICORN Technologies announces the launch of their Los Fresnos Project Regulation CF Offering on the InfraShares crowdfunding platform. This Regulation CF offering isseeking front-end financing for theLos Fresnos Project. For a minimum ... NanoVMs Launches Investment Round ...