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High gas prices are a thorny subject for the Ethereum community. The issue gained widespread coverage during the summer of DeFi when demand and network usage were sky-high, resulting in less than palatable charges. Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559 is touted as a solution to the problem, but it wasn’t clear
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Binance Pool, the mining pool run by one of crypto’s biggest exchanges, is prepared to support Taproot, a good omen for the next major Bitcoin upgrade. The addition of Binance Pool to the “yes” column means that all the major pools are now on board.Taproot is a scaling and privacy
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Opyn, a marketplace for decentralized finance (DeFi) options, has rolled out a host of new features in its updated protocol that aim to make the crypto options markets more efficient and liquid. While Opyn entered DeFi with an insurance-like product for governance tokens such as compound, its focus has since pivoted
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Four years after forking from Bitcoin, privacy-centric blockchain network Zcash has completed its first halving and rolled out a major upgrade that does away with the unpopular “Founders Reward.”At 12:37 UTC, Zcash passed block height 1,046,400 to trigger the event that cuts miners’ rewards from 6.25 ZEC to 3.125 ZEC.A
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin thanked everyone involved with the beacon chain upgrade, which went live yesterday. After years
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Bitcoin privacy experts are far from impressed with a recently circling slideshow-style privacy report that puts Taproot, a likely upcoming upgrade to Bitcoin, in the crosshairs. The Taproot upgrade will boost Bitcoin’s privacy and scalability. The years-in-the-making upgrade has been applauded by Bitcoin’s most active developers, with the community being invited
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The launch of Ethereum 2.0 today will be followed by other significant events including the ushering in of the Shard Chains and subsequently the merger of the current PoW Ethereum and the PoS Ethereum.The long-awaited launch of the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade has been initiated as Phase 0 of the Ethereum
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Ethereum is exploding higher as Bitcoin has pushed to new year-to-date highs just shy of $20,000. The price
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Ethereum Classic (ETC) has undergone a hard fork that ushers in a new upgrade aimed to increase miner participation and increase security.According to the ETC explorer by Blockscout, at around 3:45 UTC on Sunday, the ETC mainnet reached a block height of 11,700,000, automatically triggering the anticipated Thanos upgrade.Terry Culver,
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Bitcoin continues to rally, with one indicator suggesting the bulls have room to roam. Zcash, the privacy-minded blockchain network, had its first halving. And acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks may stay on for a five-year term.Top shelfTop or not?At least one obscure indicator suggests bitcoin’s bulls have room
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