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Despite $100K Pledged to Charity, Adam Back Remains Silent Over Proposed Debate
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SJm2ep3X_M&w=560&h=349] There’s over $100,000 on the line that could be given to charity for about an hour of Adam Back’s time. If he chooses to debate Bitcoin Unlimited’s Peter Rizun over why he thinks it’s a bad idea to scale with larger blocks, Paxful’s Ray Youssef has pledged $100K in addition to Roger Ver’s…
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Blockchain Researchers Mock Craig Wright’s Unsealed Bitcoin Address List
The ongoing lawsuit between the relatives of Dave Kleiman and Craig Wright continues to unfold as a filing has been unsealed that shows a list of addresses tied to the first 70 bitcoin blocks Wright claims to have mined. However, not long after the redacted list was unsealed, researchers at Wizsec Security studied the addresses…
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Craig Wright Ordered to Produce a List of Early Bitcoin Addresses in Kleiman Lawsuit
On April 28, the high profile Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit heated up when the plaintiffs alleged Craig Wright submitted forged evidence before the court. Following the recent response against Wright’s motion to dismiss the case, the plaintiffs also filed an order which demands a list of Wright’s public bitcoin addresses as of Dec. 31, 2013.…
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Alternative Bitcoin Cash Full Node Bchd Now Includes Public API
On May 3, the developers behind the Bchd project, a Bitcoin Cash full node implementation written in Go (golang), announced the release of a public application programming interface (API). The latest API feature shipped with the new version 0.14.3 offers an out-of-the-box solution that the Bchd developers say “just works.” Also read: Indian Supreme Court…
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Former Mod Explains R/Bitcoin Censorship and Why He Was Removed
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAL3y80PA5I&w=560&h=349] On May 2, the Bitcoin.com podcast series Humans of Bitcoin published an interview with early bitcoin supporter Jason King who became a moderator for Reddit forum r/bitcoin in late 2012. During the interview, King tells podcast host Matt Aaron how the forum r/bitcoin went from a fun area on the web to an…
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Bitmain Aims to Leapfrog Competition With Its Next-Gen Bitcoin Miner
On April 28, the China-based mining rig manufacturer Bitmain Technologies announced the launch of its latest Antminer T17 model which processes roughly 40 terahashes per second (TH/s). The machine delivers better power efficiency with 55 joules per terahash (J/TH) and the T17 is also equipped with second-generation TSMC 7nm semiconductors. Also read: Statistics Show Bitcoin…
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More Cashshuffle Compatible Wallets Are Coming to Bitcoin Cash
On April 27, Electron Cash founder Jonald Fyookball revealed a new milestone for the Cashshuffle protocol when he announced the release of the Cashshuffle JS library. According to Fyookball, the software is a “major step” toward Cashshuffle being implemented into other light wallets. Also read: BCH Developer Builds Onchain Token Auction Console — SLP Agora…
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BCH Developer Builds Onchain Token Auction Console — SLP Agora
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng2fspoWWUY&w=560&h=349] On April 26, software developer Tobias Ruck revealed a new platform he’s been working on called SLP Agora, an onchain trading console written in Rust that allows users to auction SLP tokens for bitcoin cash. The application’s decision-based transactions are secured by a smart contract technique enabled by the newly implemented opcode OP_Checkdatasig.…
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Old Twitter Account Gives Away $10K in Bitcoin Cash in 48 Hours
Over the last two days, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporters have noticed a Twitter handle called @Bitcoininfo tipping a bunch of random individuals and nonprofit organizations significant amounts of BCH. The Twitter profile with 107,000 followers revealed on April 26 that it gave away $10,000 in BCH using the tipping bot Tippr. Also read: Researchers Find…
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Learn How to Use Bitcoin.com’s New Point-of-Sale Solution — Bitcoin Cash Merchant
During the third week of April, Bitcoin.com released a new point-of-sale (PoS) service called Bitcoin Cash Merchant for Android operating systems. The free platform allows any retail location to accept bitcoin cash (BCH) without registering an account. With the Bitcoin Cash Merchant platform, store owners can open their businesses to a new form of payment…