A Fork of Ethereum’s Yearn.Finance (YFI) Has Surged Over 100% In 24 Hours
The Ethereum-based Yearn.finance (YFI) was forked multiple times in July and August as developers looked to replicate the
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Brave Browser Fork Makes a ‘Bold’ Move Citing Legal Pressure
Blockchain browser formerly known as ‘Braver’, which originally forked from the open-source Brave browser, rebranded itself to ‘Bold Browser’ earlier today citing legal threats from a ‘certain party.’Anti-adware forkBraver Browser launched in June following reports of Brave auto-filling the company’s affiliate link into searches for certain crypto exchanges like Binance
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Ethereum Developers Delay Berlin Hard Fork to Stem Client Centralization Concerns
So many users are dependent on Ethereum client Geth that a bug could temporarily freeze the network – something blockchains aren’t supposed to do, ever. In light of this, Ethereum Core developers decided Friday to postpone work on the Berlin hard fork until at least August in an effort to
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Hard Fork Sets Stage for Ethereum Classic’s Second Major Departure From Ethereum
Trail partners Ethereum and Ethereum Classic are soon to split ways, highlighted by the latter’s successful “Phoenix” hard fork Sunday night. Executed at block 10,500,839 on May 31, the backwards-incompatible network upgrade makes Ethereum Classic fully compatible with Ethereum. That is, until the larger blockchain swaps its consensus algorithm in a
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Mystery Account ‘Rescues’ $6M of STEEM From Hard Fork Seizure
As part of the long-running Steem drama, the Steem (STEEM) network experienced another fork today. Particularly designed to tackle “constant attack from malicious accounts,” the new hard fork doesn’t appear to have been entirely successful.Code named “New Steem” the hard fork 0.23 had two primary aims. The first was to
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Sidestepping Telegram, Devs and Validators Launch Fork of TON Blockchain
Telegram's blockchain network finally launched today – or, at least, a version of it. TON Labs, a startup that helped Telegram run the test network for the Telegram Open Network (TON), launched its own version of the blockchain Thursday, with the support of professional validators. Called Free TON, the fork comes
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Justin Sun Recounts Steem-Hive Hard Fork at Virtual Blockchain Week
Speaking at the Virtual Blockchain Week (VBW), Tron founder Justin Sun presented his side of the recent events involving Tron’s "partnership" with Steemit Inc, and the subsequent hard fork that resulted in Hive (HIVE) forking away from Steem (STEEM).During February, it was reported that Justin Sun had acquired Steemit Inc
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Privacy Altcoin Beam to Execute Second Hard Fork in June 2020
Privacy-focused altcoin, Beam (BEAM), will soon execute its second hard fork. This fork will upgrade its Proof-of-Work (PoW) algorithm and activate new network features.According to an April 22 blog post, Beam’s second fork will occur at block 777,777, shifting the network’s PoW algorithm from BeamHash II to BeamHash III.The new
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Hive Hard Fork is Successful, STEEM Crashes Back to Earth
Following weeks of conflict between the Steem (STEEM) community and Justin Sun, the community-led Hive hard fork was successful.On March 20, Hive hard forked the Steem network, airdropping HIVE tokens to STEEM holders 1:1, excluding the founder’s reward. The founder’s reward comprises 20% of the total STEEM supply. The tokens
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Bitcoin Ultimatum – Bitcoin 2.0? What Do We Know About New Fork
Bitcoin Ultimatum (BTCU) is a new fork of Bitcoin from the Prof-it Blockchain development team, with the support of the leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinsbit, co-founded by Nikolai Udianskyi. The Prof-it Blockchain team, lead by Nikolai, faces a serious challenge. The developers are working on improving the Bitcoin blockchain and creating new
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