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Some in the BSV community said miners were within their rights to mine empty blocks and were simply doing so because an economic decision had them deem the block subsidy itself a sufficient reward. "They wouldn’t bother with the workload of validating millions of transactions because the fees are too
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According to countdown statistics based on the average block generation time of around ten minutes, progress toward the next Bitcoin block reward halving has surpassed 60%. However, while most halving countdown clocks leverage the ten-minute average, the countdown leveraging the most current block intervals of around 7:65 minutes shows the
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The Merge upgrade for Ethereum (ETH), which primarily sought to transition the blockchain into a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, has been revealed to have a positive impact on the creation of new Ethereum blocks.The Merge was considered one of the most significant upgrades for Ethereum. As a result of the
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One of the expectations of the crypto community is adoption, a journey on which USDC has embarked. The more countries adopt crypto
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Alongside the downgrade, Dolev slashed his price target to $57 from $125 (the stock closed at $59.45 last night). Earlier this month, Block was on the receiving end of a double downgrade at Evercore ISI, which cut to underperform from outperform. In July, Macquarie also downgraded the stock. Source
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“The CFTC action taken on Aug. 4, 2022, threatens to harm not only the value of modest investments of more than 80,000 PredictIt traders, but the quality of the anonymized data used by more than 200 academic researchers and university educators,” Aristotle wrote in an email to PredictIt traders. Aristotle
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VanityBlocks, a relatively new NFT collection, paid some 30 ether, or just over $48,000, in fees to crypto miner F2Pool, which mined the final transaction, to mint the NFT, paying some 1.3 ether as transaction fees. However, the NFT had received just three bids as of Thursday at roughly 15:00
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The miner used almost 30 million gwei to pay for that transaction. Original Source
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Over the past 12 months, Bitcoin’s hashrate has increased by 85.77%, while 53,547 blocks were mined and 334,668.75 new bitcoin were minted into circulation. More than two dozen bitcoin mining pools have dedicated hashrate toward the Bitcoin blockchain during the last six years, and while the hashrate is 22,900% higher,
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