transactions – Is there any way to track an individual bitcoin (or satoshi)?

[ad_1] I’ve been playing with Gavin’s “bitcointools” (again) to track what happened to the famous “pizza” Bitcoins. It turns out that rather than being rare collector’s items, the 10,000 BTC exchanged for two pizzas have spread out to over a million different Bitcoin addresses since buying the pizzas, not counting the dilute fragments that ended … Read more

Hot New Memecoin Is Surging, Toncoin (TON) and Celestia (TIA) Are Struggling for Momentum

[ad_1] Despite the recent market surge, Toncoin and Celestia have lost their momentum. Both projects have seen price declines over the last 24 hours, causing investors to jump boat and diversify. Meanwhile, a new meme coin is surging during its presale. Now, as early investors prepare for returns of 220%, experts believe this project could … Read more

Geth 1.6 – Puppeth Master

[ad_1] Cramming in a lot more goodies than originally anticipated, the Go Ethereum team is proud to finally deliver the first incarnation of the 1.6 Geth release series! Glimpsing through the commit list, this is going to be a monster post! Toml configuration files For a very long time now, people were requesting that we … Read more

🔴 Unusual Bitcoin Rally | This Week in Crypto – Feb 19, 2024

[ad_1] MicroStrategy flashes diamond hands, the two largest NFT creators are merging together, and this Bitcoin rally could be different. These stories and more, this week in crypto. Bitcoin Hits a Two Year High Bitcoin’s market value surpassed $1 trillion this last week, reaching its highest level since late 2021. Year to date, bitcoin is … Read more

Security Advisory [Insecurely configured geth can make funds remotely accessible]

[ad_1] Insecurely configured Ethereum clients with no firewall and unlocked accounts can lead to funds being accessed remotely by attackers. Affected configurations: Issue reported for Geth, though all implementations incl. C++ and Python can in principle display this behavior if used insecurely; only for nodes which leave the JSON-RPC port open to an attacker (this … Read more

Notes from Davos: 10 things you should know about AI

[ad_1] The following is a guest post from John deVadoss. Davos in January 2024 was about one theme – AI. Vendors were hawking AI; sovereign states were touting their AI infrastructure; intergovernmental organizations were deliberating over AI’s regulatory implications; corporate chieftains were hyping AI’s promise; political titans were debating AI’s national security connotations; and almost … Read more

The History of Casper – Chapter 1

[ad_1] Vitalik suggested last week that I share my basic research and design philosophy in a blog post, I agreed but complained that it was still changing. My friend Jon West told me that everyone would really appreciate it if I told everyone about my Casper research, I mostly agreed. Then someone on reddit told … Read more

Uncle Rate and Transaction Fee Analysis

[ad_1] One of the important indicators of how much load the Ethereum blockchain can safely handle is how the uncle rate responds to the gas usage of a transaction. In all blockchains of the Satoshian proof-of-work variety, any block that is published has the risk of howbecoming a “stale”, ie. not being part of the … Read more