After three days of validation and half a day of deep scanning, the findings force a hard look at what “content on the blockchain” really means for ordinary node operators.
The proposal to temporarily restrict arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions lacks economic nodes, protocol developers, and hashrate. History from the 2017 UASF shows nodes succeed only with broad investor and developer weight behind them.
Ocean Mining’s VP of Development and Engineering Jason Hughes argues BIP-110 lacks measurable consensus, with node signaling at 7-15% and hashrate support under 1% ahead of the critical block 961632 window.
Origin’s latest offering is positioning itself to challenge encrypted messaging giant Telegram, which, while not decentralized, is widely used within the cryptocurrency community.
Coinbase announced its intention to add Ethereum Classic to its trading platform and then quickly followed with the official opening of their crypto index fund.
As expected, the events leading up to the BTC hardfork were dramatic. Before splitting off with its hardfork counterpart (Bitcoin Cash), BTC-USD saw drastic...
