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Celestia, the modular blockchain that claims to scale with more users, has struggled to wrangle much of a market share in its first week, with less than 350,000 transactions registered in the four days following its release.Data from Mintscan shows that current transactions per second (TPS) on Celestia is 0.19. This doesn't necessarily translate to

Nov 20, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. UTC(TAW4/iStock via Getty Images Plus)10 Metrics Where Bitcoin Has Already Hit New All-Time HighsWhile we haven’t achieved the elusive $20,000 spot price all-time high yet, these other metrics show where bitcoin has grown far beyond previous peaks.For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases,…

Jun 15, 2020 at 13:50 UTCUpdated Jun 15, 2020 at 14:02 UTCCountdown timer (Credit: rootstock/Shutterstock.com)A mining pool has called time on the wait for an ether whale to reach out after making a transaction with an unusually high fee worth in the millions of dollars last week. Bitfly, the company behind the Ethermine pool, announced…

The Aptos network is holding a vote on a major upgrade that contains new standards for creating fungible assets, a necessary step for handling on-chain asset classes like tokenized real estate.The package known as v1.5 covers a range of new and updated features to how the Aptos blockchain works and what its builders can do…

Arthur Hayes, CEO of HDR and BitMEX, at CoinDesk Consensus 2018.(CoinDesk archives)Being a policymaker or regulator these days is harder than ever. What policy objective to prioritize: digital innovation and economic growth or prudent operation of the existing markets? Privacy, confidentiality and other civil liberties, or the radical transparency that is required to aid in…

The efficient market hypothesis butts up against bitcoin's volatile day while Bitcoiners show solidarity in hosting the white paper.Jan 22, 2021 at 7:08 p.m. UTCBlockchain Bites: Clearing the Record on Yellen’s Crypto Concerns and the Bitcoin Double-Spend FracasAfter dropping 13% yesterday, bitcoin is once again on the ascent. Meanwhile, Janet Yellen has offered a more…

A gathering in London saw the cryptocurrency community cavort with cross-dressers and samurai dwarves, all in the name of history.

(sarawuth702/iStock /Getty Images Plus)New Ethereum Fee Model Has Some Miners Crying Foul: SurveyEthereum miners are signaling their disapproval of a technical proposal advocated by top Ethereum developers, a new survey shows.Eight of the nine mining projects partaking in a community survey on Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559 had a negative impression of the proposal, with…

Sep 18, 2020 at 12:30 UTC(Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock)Back in 2017, I was the chief operations officer of an enterprise blockchain startup. By all accounts we were a reasonably successful early stage company; we had built prototypes on our permissioned Ethereum Virtual Machine for a range of banks including Deutsche Bank, Barclays, and Credit Suisse. SWIFT…