Bitcoin SV Nodes Crash Hard Following Genesis ‘Downgrade’
Following the Bitcoin SV ‘Genesis’ Hard Fork on Feb 4th, the number of nodes on the network has reduced dramatically. In a tweet this morning, Arthur van Pelt of Dragon...
Bitcoin Nodes Go Ultra Private Thanks to TOR Network
According to recent data from Bitnodes, 2020 has brought a large new movement of anonymity within Bitcoin nodes, many of which went anonymous thanks to the TOR Network. Privacy is Back...
Bitcoin Nodes Exceed that of Ethereum’s by Thousands
As Ethereum nodes kept falling over the course of 2019, nodes in Bitcoin’s network continued to grow. As per Trustnodes, Ethereum’s network was the largest when it came to...
Blockstream Satellite Now Means Most Of The World Can Use Bitcoin Without Internet
Blockchain technology company Blockstream revealed the second phase of its satellite-based Bitcoin communications project Blockstream Satellite this week. Satellite Coverage Expands...
Bitcoin Lightning Network Capacity Quadruples Since November
Lightning Network continues to grow at a phenomenal rate, with capacity now topping 460 BTC, and a reported 16,000+ channels. Lightning Network Sees Accelerating Growth It feels like...
Bitcoin Public Full Node Count Surpasses 10,000
New data released by Coin Dance this week shows that the number of bitcoin public nodes made a significant jump. The reported 10,094 public nodes places the total number back over...
At 100 BTC And 12k Channels, The Lightning Network is Larger Than Ever
The Lightning Network for Bitcoin became bigger than any time in history this month as capacity reached 100 BTC ($730,000) in a new first. Participants Break New Barriers Data from...
Room For Creatives, Distributed New Economy Is Growing In Capacity
Creatives from multiple industries and those on the other side of the transaction – buyers and consumers of content, may soon do business on a single platform. Within the Zeepin...
Bitcoin Cash Development is a Ghost Town, GitHub Data Reveals
Bitcoin Cash continues to receive criticism of its network setup as bitPico’s “stress test” unearths what the group describes as possible “fake decentralization.” Empty...
Bitcoin Cash: BitPico ‘Stress Test’ Claims To Show Node Centralization
A new discovery in BitPico’s “stress test” on Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has allegedly unearthed further evidence of the altcoin’s centralization. Nodes ‘In Same Server...
Bitcoin Cash Still Missing 13% of Its Nodes 2 Weeks After Hard Fork
Two weeks after its hard fork, 13% of Bitcoin Cash nodes are still running old software which is incompatible with the rest of its network, data reveals. Theories Emerge Over Rogue BCH...
NodeCounter Removes Duplicate Bitcoin Nodes From The Equation
Bitcoin nodes are an interesting trend to keep an eye on, as the digital currency’s network needs a lot of active nodes around the world to relay transactions. Up until this point...