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Data gathered from the Bitnodes application programming interface (API) shows that most bitcoin (BTC) nodes are routing traffic through the anonymous overlay network Tor. Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency that relies on nodes to verify and propagate transactions on…

THORChain, after several hours of trying to fix an ongoing problem on their network and offering updates to its customer base, has finally announced that their network is now fully operational again. The firm gives a couple of reasons to what could have caused the problem.

Earlier this week, the popular Bitcoin wallet Electrum received a much-awaited update, with developers adding support for the Lightning Network. The latter allows for faster and cheaper BTC transactions, even as it remains under continuous development. Lightning on Electrum Electrum’s…

As of  February 24, 2019, the United States has the largest amount of Bitcoin nodes, according to research by DataLight. Bitcoin Nodes and Their Importance Simply stated, Bitcoin nodes are the computer programs which perform the validation of Bitcoin transactions.…

Elixxir has outlined the beginning of its BetaNode selection process, which kicks off on January 21, 2019, with the opening of its applications. Elixxir According to the January 17, 2019 press release, full-stack blockchain Elixxir has begun its BetaNode selection…

According to 1ML.com, a search engine dedicated solely to Lightning Network metrics, the second layer, off-chain scaling solution for bitcoin has reached a new milestone, as it passed 4000 nodes for the first time at press time, November 14, 2018.…

Eight months after presenting a case for Graphene as a solution to the bitcoin cash blockchain’s scalability issue, Bitcoin Unlimited has unveiled its block compression utility that takes care of excessive blockchain bandwidth usage. Presented in November 2017 at a…

In a report to be featured at the 38th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in May, Aviv Zohar of The Hebrew University present findings on how an attack to the Bitcoin Blockchain can occur via the Internet’s routing infrastructure.…

The majority of the Bitcoin community believes a hard fork execution will not occur anytime soon. Experts and developers including Andreas Antonopoulos, BitGo engineer Jameson Lopp and Charlie Shrem have noted that Bitcoin Unlimited is not ready for production and…

Electrum is one of the oldest and remains a favorite light client for Bitcoin. It works with a network of servers that feed the clients with block data. But with the growth of the Blockchain, starting a new server has…