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The chief of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has said the company's approaching shift to blockchain tech could bring opportunities to the wider securities industry. In a results call for H1 2020 Thursday, reported by ZDNet, ASX CEO Dominic Stevens said: "We're very excited about the long term
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As the bitcoin community gears up for its next likely major code upgrade, students of the cryptocurrency have an opportunity to inspect the changes themselves, with help from core developers.The weekly Bitcoin Core review club has started guiding users through the proposed Taproot/Schnorr code, designed to improve privacy and scalability
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The IOTA project unveiled on Feb. 3 a series of upgrades dubbed Chrysalis, an intermediate stage between now and the removal of the Coordinator. The upgrade introduces several important features, some of which change long-standing IOTA principles.Chrysalis, or IOTA 1.5, takes its name from the second stage in a
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Bitcoin SV (for Satoshi's Vision) has hard forked with apparently just one minor issue, taking its blockchain back to the first "Genesis" iteration of the bitcoin protocol.The BSV network upgraded at approximately 02:00 UTC Tuesday, implementing Genesis rules that bring about "the full restoration of Satoshis Bitcoin protocol." Jimmy Nguyen,
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Bitcoin SV (BSV) performed a scheduled upgrade named Genesis on Feb. 3. As most nodes have not yet updated, this resulted in a minor chain split where two versions of BSV exist.As reported by BitMEX Research, the upgrade occurred at block height 620,538, or about 8:30 PM EST. The
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The activation of Bitcoin’s (BTC) Taproot upgrade is moving forward as official Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIP) were submitted for review on Jan. 24. Even though Taproot is often hyped up for its privacy improvements, its true impact is likely to be very minor.What is Taproot?Taproot is the name given
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Ethereum, the second most valuable blockchain network in the global market, will see its biggest upgrade ever soon. Chromatic Capital managing director Grant Hummer says if successfully implemented, it will create major improvements that would make the so-called “ETH 2.0” significantly better than the current version.For many years, the Ethereum
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More Bitcoin (BTC) transactions now use so-called Segregated Witness (“SegWit”) technology than ever before, the latest data shows. According to various resources including SegWit.Space, adoption of the protocol has reached up to 66% of all Bitcoin transactions as of Jan. 4. Two in three BTC payments now SegWitThe volume underwent a
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Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance will suspend Ether (ETH) deposits and withdrawals to support the recently announced Ethereum network Muir Glacier upgrade.In a Dec. 30 blog post, Binance said that deposits and withdrawals will be suspended on the platform prior to the Ethereum network block height of 9,200,000 selected to
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The organization behind ether, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency, is drawing criticism from developers after scheduling an upgrade on New Year's Day - a work holiday in most countries. The Ethereum Foundation on Monday announced the plan to implement the "Muir Glacier" upgrade on Jan. 1. The upgrade will take place
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