A Look at the First Phone-to-Phone Bitcoin Transfer Using a Nokia N900 Smartphone

A Look at the First Phone-to-Phone Bitcoin Transfer Using a Nokia 900 SmartphoneWhen Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, the full node client came with a wallet often referred to as Bitcoin-Qt. Nakamoto’s simplified payment verification (SPV) concept was not available until two years later, after the former Bitcoin Core developer Mike Hearn published BitcoinJ in 2011. However, prior to the first SPV client or optimized lightweight bitcoin wallet, […]

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A Look at What It Was Like to Operate the Lightning Network’s Largest Node

A Look at What It Was Like to Operate the Lightning Network's Largest NodeAbout two weeks ago news.Bitcoin.com reported on one guy who controlled the Lightning Network’s (LN) biggest node when he commanded 49 percent of the total funds held within the network. Since then, Andreas Brekken, the owner of the blockchain review website Shitcoin.com, wrote four reviews about his node that held 35.24 BTC and his daily […]

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