Only 226 validators have been slashed since Ethereum staking began, with 75 of those coming from a single event in February 2021.
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Tiny Block Advocates Speak Up After Veriblock ‘Abuses’ Bitcoin’s Block Size
The BTC community recently celebrated the fact that Segregated Witness (Segwit) transactions accounted for 50% of transactions and bech32 transactions doubled as well. However, the celebration quickly came to an end when a few Bitcoin Core developers found out where the transactions derived from and got upset at the Veriblock project for using scarce block […]
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BCH Devs Lock in Code for the Chain’s Next Upgrade: Schnorr and Segwit Recovery
On Feb. 14, a group of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) developers sat down and discussed the featured items for the scheduled upgrade this coming May. According to the programmers, two specific features will be ready for the upgrade: Schnorr signatures and Segwit recovery. The developers also detailed that certain features like nullfail and the 100-byte transaction […]
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Core Developer’s 300kb Block Proposal Bolstered in Bid to Push Lightning Adoption
Bitcoin Core (BTC) developer Luke Dash Jr has once again sparked controversy with his idea to shrink the BTC chain’s block size down to 300kb. It’s not the first time the concept was proposed by the developer, but this time around there’s more support for the idea in order to drive Lightning Network adoption. Also […]
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Bitcoin Core Developer Advocates Credit Card Payments Over BTC
Bitcoin Core developer Jimmy Song has caused controversy by suggesting that bitcoin enthusiasts would be better off using credit cards as a means of payment. He described this strategy as being “more rational and convenient” than making multiple onchain transactions. His advice flies in the face of the rationale behind Bitcoin and has provoked a […]
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Former Core Developer Mike Hearn Returns for Some Bitcoin Cash Q&A
On April 5 the former bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn came back to do an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) on the Reddit forum /r/btc. It’s been a while since Hearn has chatted with the bitcoin community, and one could say he left the development scene a few years ago due to the vitriolic strife over the scaling […]
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