Edward Snowden, a privacy advocate and former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and whistleblower, says bitcoin “is the most significant monetary advance since the creation of coinage.” He views his statement as “unpopular but true.” Edward Snowden’s ‘Unpopular but True’ Bitcoin Statement Edward Snowden, a privacy advocate, posted about bitcoin on social media platform X […]
Ethereum has shed a significant part of its supply since the London upgrade, applied in August 2021. According to ultrasound.money, a portal that records several statistics associated with the ETH burn, over 4 million ether (3.2%) have been removed from the network since the adoption of EIP-1559, which changed how fees are calculated. EIP-1559 Burns […]
At 10:00 a.m. EDT on Feb. 9, 2024, the nine recently launched spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) collectively possess 202,868.61 bitcoin, valued at $ 9.56 billion according to current exchange rates. New ETFs Command Over 200,000 Bitcoin In the last 28 days, spot bitcoin ETFs introduced by Blackrock, Fidelity, Ark Invest, Bitwise, Invesco, Vaneck, …
Over the past five years, the number of established developers with more than 2 years experience of working in crypto grew at an annualized rate of 52%. According to the findings of a study, established developers (2+ years) together with emerging developers make an average of three times more code commits than newcomers. Experienced Developers’ […]
On Jan. 10, 2024, the fee for high-priority transactions is set at 42 satoshis per virtual byte (sats/vB), amounting to $ 2.66 per transaction. The average transaction fee stands at 98.9 sats/vB, equivalent to $ 11.17 per transfer. Although there has been a decline in onchain fees, they currently remain at their highest …