Litecoin Network Gets Its First NFTs After Developer Forks Bitcoin Ordinals
A copy of the white paper of Litecoin’s mimblewimble upgrade was put on the Litecoin blockchain.
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Feb 21, 2023 at 8:40 a.m. UTC
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Bitcoin NFTs Challenge the Blockchain’s Largest Use Case: Money
The Bitcoin community has been abuzz with conversations around how Ordinal Inscriptions could signal a technical improvement to NFTs. But the increased fees and transaction speeds associated with them could stifle Bitcoin’s primary use case as a medium of exchange.
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Feb 17, 2023 at 1:45 p.m. UTC
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Latest Ethereum ‘Shadow Fork’ Brings Blockchain’s Shanghai Upgrade Closer to Reality
The first set of testing has commenced for the much anticipated Shanghai upgrade, expected in March, that will enable staked ether withdrawals. Some minor glitches were reported.
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Jan 23, 2023 at 2:15 p.m. UTC
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Ethereum Developers Target March 2023 for Release of Staked Ether
Staked ETH withdrawals are coming in the spring, while "proto-danksharding" will follow in the subsequent hard fork in the fall.
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Dec 8, 2022 at 3:39 p.m. UTC
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Will Censorship Fork Ethereum?
Disagreement around how to handle sanctions on Ethereum may soon force the chain to split into two: one chain censored, one not.
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Oct 19, 2022 at 11:15 a.m. UTC
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Ethereum’s Second-Layer Projects Duke It Out for Dominance
Ethereum's layer 2 scaling platforms are taking center stage in the network's newest chapter, and it is unclear whether first movers hold the greatest advantage.
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Oct 12, 2022 at 11:15 a.m. UTC
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Ethereum Miner Chandler Guo Predicts 90% of PoW Miners Will Go Bankrupt
The Merge put a big hurt on mining, the proof-of-work advocate told CoinDesk TV. He believes the Ethereum fork he backs will draw what miners remain as the glitches are fixed.
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Sep 16, 2022 at 4:25 p.m. UTC
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Ethereum PoW Network Sees Complaints on Day 1 Amid Data Goof-Up
Users said they weren't able to access the blockchain's servers using the public information and attempts to link it to a crypto wallet failed.
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Sep 16, 2022 at 10:31 a.m. UTC
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Blockchain Cardano’s Vasil Upgrade Confirmed for Sept. 22
The hard fork had initially been scheduled for a June release.
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Sep 2, 2022 at 6:44 p.m. UTC
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Potential Ethereum Hard Fork Token ETHPOW May Trade at 1.5% of Ether's Price, Futures Suggest
Paradigm expects the token will open at least $18.
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Sep 1, 2022 at 12:09 p.m. UTC
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