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‘History Has Repeated’: F2Pool Explains Message in Last Block Before Bitcoin Halving

Ushering in bitcoin's third "halving," by far the most highly awaited cryptocurrency event of the year, mining pool F2Pool rooted a mysterious message into the blockchain that will now reside there forever.Preceded by a fish emoji signifying the company's logo, the mining pool added the text to a headline from

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Bitcoin Halving Arrives: Mining Rewards Drop for Third Time in History

Bitcoin's third halving, the network's quadrennial landmark and the most anticipated event this year in the cryptocurrency industry, has finally happened.Miners racing on the network to compete for freshly minted bitcoin produced the 630,000th block at 19:23 UTC on May 11, which triggered the programmed halving event, marking another milestone

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Blockchain Enabled P2P Trust For First Time in History

To close out Virtual Blockchain Week, best-selling technology author and co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute (BRI), Don Tapscott, delivered a presentation articulating what he describes as the shift from the internet of information to the internet of value.In his presentation titled ‘Blockchain Revolution: The State of The Union,’ Tapscott

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Looking Into the History of Stablecoins to Understand the Future of Money

Cryptocurrency was invented and designed to provide numerous benefits for global private and institutional clients, to free people from the burden of banking systems and to create a new financial ecosystem. The underlying technology, blockchain, can indeed be considered one of the most significant technological advancements of the 21st century,

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Bitcoin Hashrate Down 45% – Miners Witness Second-Largest Difficulty Drop in History

'Buy Bitcoin' Searches Skyrocket, Volumes Spike, Account Signups Swell As Coronavirus Fears HeightenExchange data and statistics from Google Trends, Twitter, and Baidu show that despite the recent price drop people are looking to buy bitcoin. During the week of the crypto market massacre that started on March 12, Coinbase broke

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