Lightning Labs’ new liquidity marketplace, Lightning Pool, has seen more early-stage growth than its creators expected.
Electrum Developers Apply Fix After Apple Update Bricks Bitcoin Wallets
Apple’s most recent Mac update is causing major problems for one of Bitcoin’s oldest wallets.
New Mac Update Leaves Users No Room to Escape Data Collection
Following a recent Mac update, users will have to find alternatives if they want out from under Apple’s eye.
New Mac Update Leaves Users No Room to Escape Data Collection
Following a recent Mac update, users will have to find alternatives if they want out from under Apple’s eye.
Ethereum’s ‘Unannounced Hard Fork’ Was Trying to Prevent the Very Disruption It Caused
A hard fork that split Ethereum’s chain in two was activated on purpose, calling into question Ethereum’s client coordination.
Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract Tops $22.5M One Week After Launch
The deposit contract for Ethereum’s 2.0 upgrade now holds over 50k ETH – 10% of the threshold needed to activate the watershed update.
Multisignature Wallets Can Keep Your Coins Safer (If You Use Them Right)
Multisignature wallets are cryptocurrency wallets which require two or more private keys to sign and send a transaction.
Flaw in Bitcoin SV Multisig Wallet Puts Funds at Risk
Bitcoin SV scrapped Bitcoin’s multisignature design and created its own. The insecure design is causing problems for some BSV users.
Buggy Code in This Compound Finance Fork Just Froze $1M in Ethereum Tokens
Some $1 million in Ethereum tokens is locked in a new DeFi app after its developers made changes to the protocol’s contracts.
Blockstream’s MuSig 2 Will Offer Less Complex, More Private Multi-Signature Transactions
Made possible by Taproot, MuSig2 is designed to make multi-signature Bitcoin transactions less complex without sacrificing privacy.
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is Getting a Marketplace for Payment Channel Liquidity
Lightning Labs new service, Pool, provides a marketplace for Lightning Network businesses and users to lease payment channel liquidity.
Maker DAO Members Voting on a Safeguard Against BProtocol Flash Loan-Type Attack
The Maker DAO community is voting on a proposal to harden the protocol’s governance structure against flash loan voting.
Bitcoin Developers Still Divided on Specifics of Taproot Activation
The code for Taproot is ready to go, but developers are still discussing how to deploy the update across Bitcoin’s distributed network.
Putting Pressure on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Vulnerabilities Will Strengthen It
These vulnerabilities are reminders that improvements come with trade-offs – and that security and usability are two sides of the same coin.
‘A Race Toward Zero’: With Hashrate in the Clouds, Bitcoin Mining Is Less Profitable Than Ever
ASIC financing has driven Bitcoin’s hashrate to all time highs in 2020. By consequence, Bitcoin is less proftiable to mine than ever.
4 Bitcoin Lightning Network Vulnerabilities That Haven’t Been Exploited (Yet)
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network has a few of vulnerabilities that have been discovered in its two-year lifespan, but none have been exploited.
Closing Time for Bitcoin’s Iconic Room 77 – ‘And That’s OK,’ Says Owner
Room 77 originally opened as a side project, until Bitcoin came and made it an icon. Now, the first bar to ever accept bitcoin is closing.
This New Service Plays Matchmaker Between Solo Miners, Big Mining Farms
Compass by HASHR8 matches individual miners with mining farms to host their hardware.
Nigerian Banks Shut Them Out, So These Activists Are Using Bitcoin to Battle Police Brutality
As End SARS protests against police brutality surge through Nigeria, the Feminist Coalistion has turned to bitcoin as a financial lifeline.
Taproot Has Been Merged Into Bitcoin Core: Here’s What That Means
Bitcoin’s long-awaited Taproot update is one step closer to fruition.