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Cryptocurrency News and Public Mining Pools

Quick question about mining: does it only stop when ETH 2.0 is fully released (i.e two years from now)?

I have heard mixed information, some say that mining will stop in a few months as ETH moves to PoS and others say mining will continue for one or two years at least. What is the correct answer? submitted by /u/_bush [link] [comments]

Economic Analysis of EIP-1559: A Summary

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PSA: Before you update to Geth 1.10.0

The most recent Geth release introduces massive changes to the database structure (introducing snapshot generation), and also brings feature called "Transaction unindexing" The first time you run new release of the client, it will run both of them in parallel, requiring massive amount of I/O operations. In case of Raspberry Pi users like me, or…
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Cardano (ADA) Death Cross Spells Worries Despite Bullish “Mary” Fork

Cardano (ADA/USD) bounces off a critical support trendline during the Asia-Pacific trading session Friday. The blockchain asset expects to close above key moving average waves on the prospect of turning into a multi-asset chain following its hard fork on March 1. Nonetheless, a death cross formation offsets the probability of more price legs higher. Levels […]

Ravencoin Nodes for Beginners

Are there any good websites for videos on how to setup a node and also a brief explanation of how nodes work? Are the there any security risks with setting up a node? submitted by /u/jttobins [link] [comments]

Leading on-Chain Option Trading Protocol Oddz Finance Announces Its Public Distribution IDO on Polkastarter

Oddz Protocol is a trustless On-Chain Option trading platform that expedites the execution of call and put options contracts, conditional trades, and futures. It allows the creation, maintenance, execution, and settlement of trustless option contracts, conditional tokens agreements, and futures contracts in a fast, secure, and flexible manner. It employs the synergies of Ethereum, Binance […]

How does L2 keep the security of Ethereum?

Explain like I'm 5 please. If we add layers on top of the ETH PoW mechanism, how does that new layer adhere to the security and trust we have come to love about Ethereum? Same question for BTC. If we have to validate using a different layer can't it then be messed with once the…
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Polkadot’s Gavin Wood to Give Lecture Series as Part of UC Berkeley Blockchain Curriculum

University of California, Berkeley and Parity Technologies are joining forces on several blockchain fronts, including educational development and awareness, by leveraging Parity’s expert team and the Substrate framework as knowledge-building resources. UC Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator Partners with Parity to Promote Blockchain Adoption To bring more resources to the University of California, Berkeley community and Blockchain […]

Record GBTC discount may spark $100K Bitcoin price rise — analyst

History repeating itself have the potential to spark a 2-4X BTC price run, data covering the GBTC premium suggests.