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Highly Anticipated Bitcoin Upgrade Taproot Activates — Taproot Script-Spends Seen in the Wild

DIGIT — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:00:42 +0000

Bitcoin advocates are celebrating the successful implementation of the Taproot upgrade after block height 709,632. The upgrade was highly anticipated as it was one of the biggest changes since the introduction of Segregated Witness (Segwit) in 2017. After the upgrade was completed, the Bitcoin community discussed the slew of benefits Taproot and Schnorr signatures have […]

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Bitcoin Miners Start Signaling for Taproot Activation, People Prep for BTC’s Largest Update in 4 Years

DIGIT — Mon, 03 May 2021 04:30:38 +0000

Bitcoin miners have started to signal for Taproot activation and crypto supporters are looking forward to the largest bitcoin update in almost four years. The mining operation Slush Pool mined the first block signaling for Taproot and since then the pools Foundry and F2pool have joined in on signaling as well. Bitcoin Block: 681,458 Signals […]

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Algorithmic Bitcoin and Ethereum Social Attention List Ranks Influencers With Math

DIGIT — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:30:59 +0000

On November 19, Hive.one, a project that maps the community clusters of Bitcoin and Ethereum social status using mathematics, announced the launch of a new algorithm version. Since the last time Hive.one published a list, social influencer scores and ranks changed and the creators believe the new scores “better reflect reality.” Just recently Hive.one announced […]

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Pieter Wuille will continue to work with Blockstream despite his recent move to Chaincode Labs

DIGIT — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 21:46:15 +0000

Wuille will continue contributing to a new Multi-Signature standard for Bitcoin.

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‘Bitcoin Is Not a Privacy Coin’ Says Crypto Evangelist Andreas Antonopoulos

DIGIT — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:05:17 +0000

Andreas Antonopoulos discussed how he desired to see Bitcoin have more “privacy features” in a recent live stream Q&A session published on Youtube on July 7. Antonopoulos discussed the privacy-centric coin monero and concepts like stealth addresses and ring signatures. Every once in a while, the well known cryptocurrency expert and evangelist, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, […]

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Reserve CEO Predicts Central Banks Will Tokenize, Still Room for Stablecoins

DIGIT — Wed, 15 May 2019 20:26:00 +0000

The CEO of Reserve thinks central banks will tokenize, but lack of privacy in spending will draw businesses and wealthy persons to alternative stablecoin services

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Bitcoin Developer Publishes Two Proposals for a Taproot Soft Fork

DIGIT — Tue, 07 May 2019 01:20:00 +0000

Bitcoin developer Pieter Wuille has unveiled two proposals on GitHub for a Taproot soft fork to address privacy issues

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This ‘Faketoshi’ Signature Tool Lets Anyone Become Satoshi Nakamoto

DIGIT — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 01:25:42 +0000

Over the years, it’s become popular to claim that you are Satoshi Nakamoto even if you lack a shred of evidence. Although some individuals have tried really hard to prove it, they have always failed to convince the greater community. For instance, a few self-proclaimed inventors of Bitcoin have attempted to generate a signature with […]

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