Fifteen years after the first block of Bitcoin was mined, the original cryptocurrency has battled critics, haters and agitators, and emerged victorious - and is now ranked as one of the top ten most valuable assets in the world.
Bitcoin Block Size News
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Bitcoin inscriptions have garnered a "medium" base severity score from the NVD.
11440Block size and scalability trade-off involves optimizing transaction capacity while ensuring network performance amid increasing demand.
Inscriptions have been acting more as a “packing filler,” stuffed into any remaining space once higher-value monetary transfers are packed into blocks, said the firm.
6526The founder of Digital Bitcoin Art and Assets believes that smart contracts on Bitcoin could solve the myriad problems created by Ordinals.
3493The hype around Bitcoin Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens is unsustainable and will fade away in a matter of months, according to Jan3 CEO Samson Mow.
13186What do Bitcoin ecosystem CEOs make of Ordinals, and what does the video game Doom have to do with it?
5129The increasing popularity of Bitcoin NFTs, or Ordinals, will positively impact the Bitcoin network’s security and attract developers to the ecosystem, according to Ordinals proponent Udi Wertheimer.
7909Bitcoin’s average block size has hit an all-time high of 2.5MB following the creation of the Ordinals protocol in January 2023.
4191Cryptocurrency’s hash rate measures a blockchain network’s processing power to process transactions.
A fraternity-based approach to mine crypto, mining pools let miners combine their computational resources for a better chance to win rewards.
11201To mine, or not to mine, that is the question. Professional Bitcoin miners discuss the nuance of BTC mining and whether now is a good time to get started.
8494The cost of moving Bitcoin across the network has hit decade lows as Lightning Network, batching, miner behavior and protocol improvements have driven costs down.
12027A Glassnode report reveals that some major cryptocurrency exchanges are still holding despite being heavy consumers of Bitcoin block space.
2948Data from BTC.com estimates that the network will continue to grow stronger by attaining another all-time high in the next 12 days, with a network difficulty of 26.70 trillion.
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