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A new Bitcoin Full Node implementation might help the network become more accessible for anyone to set up and run courtesy the launch of Utreexo last week, reported CryptoX on Wednesday. Bitcoin Nodes Made Lighter Developed as part of MIT Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), Utreexo puts the idea of lighter nodes into
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Participating member states can stage their testnet nodes on hardware with specs roughly equivalent to a PC gamer’s tower. Source
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Canaan Creative’s stock dipped below $2, its lowest price since the firm went public in November. Experts say demand for new mining equipment may have weakened after the Bitcoin network’s halving event in May. Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force is using a blockchain startup to monitor its supply chain logistics, and an
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Look below at the map of public nodes on Bitcoin’s Lighting Network. Europe and the U.S. are filled with them. The rest of the world is an ocean of blankness with a few scattered islands. Source: Lighting Network ExplorerAfrica appears to have eight nodes total. From this map, entrepreneur and IT
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The Nxt (NXT) and Ardor (ARDR) blockchains have seen a spike in the number of network’s nodes after rolling out an incentives program.Jerulidia — the company behind both blockchains — told Cointelegraph on April 28 that both networks experienced a dramatic increase in the number of nodes after the firm
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Blockstack is giving its long-term holders a new way to earn bitcoin.Announced Thursday, the decentralized-web startup is rolling out a consensus mechanism that essentially presents a fresh use case for the world's most popular cryptocurrency. When version 2.0 of Blockstack's Stacks blockchain comes out, miners on the network will need to
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The Ethereum (ETH) network was apparently the target of a coordinated attack, according to several analysts.Following reports that some Parity Ethereum nodes lost sync with the network, on Dec. 31, core blockchain infrastructure company Parity Technology said it believed there was an attack underway and subsequently released network upgrades
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A bug in all Zcash (ZEC) implementations and most of its forks could leak metadata containing the full nodes’ with shielded addresses (zaddr) IPs.Komodo (KMD) core developer Duke Leto disclosed the bug in a blog post published on his personal website. A Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) code has
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The number of Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network (LN) nodes has reached 10,000 for the first time, according to real-time LN statistics site 1ML.According to 1ML, the number of nodes on the LN has grown by 3.17% over the past 30 days to reach a record high of 10,003 network
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Blockchain software development firm Parity released an update for its Ethereum (ETH) node software which fixes a vulnerability present in some instances.Remote node crashing vulnerabilityIn a blog post published on Aug. 29, Parity announced the release of an update for its Ethereum node software fixing the Remote Procedure Call
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