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  2. Bitcoin scalability problem - Wikipedia

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    Bitcoin has a block time of 10 minutes and a block size of 1 MB. Various increases to this limit, and proposals to remove it completely, have been proposed over bitcoin's history. Implementing any of these proposals involves a fork. Litecoin produces blocks four times faster than Bitcoin which leads to a 4x improvement in throughput.

  3. Lightning Network - Wikipedia

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    The Lightning Network (LN) is a payment protocol built on the bitcoin blockchain. [1] It is intended to enable fast transactions among participating nodes (independently run members of the network) and has been proposed as a solution to the bitcoin scalability problem. [2] [3] [4]

  4. SegWit - Wikipedia

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    Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, a form of currency using cryptography to keep transactions secure. [4] A collection of bitcoin transactions prefaced by a block header, protected by proof of work, and recorded on a network of computers is called a "block".

  5. Trump is looking to create a bitcoin strategic reserve. How ...

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    Trump has suggested a bitcoin reserve would help the U.S. compete with other countries in the cryptocurrency space. "We're going to do something great with crypto because we don't want China or ...

  6. Man who lost $800 million bitcoin in landfill wants to buy ...

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    Buried deep in a Welsh landfill, beneath layers of years-old garbage, there is a hard drive that holds the key to almost $800 million in bitcoin – or so James Howells believes, after ...

  7. Transaction malleability problem - Wikipedia

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    The transaction malleability problem became known to the Bitcoin community in 2011. In February 2014, Japanese Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox revealed that they had been targeted by an exploit in Bitcoin protocol called "Transaction Malleability". At the time, Mt. Gox was the world's largest bitcoin exchange, handling approximately 70% of all bitcoin ...

  8. List of bitcoin forks - Wikipedia

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    The first hard fork splitting bitcoin happened on 1 August 2017, resulting in the creation of Bitcoin Cash. The following is a list of notable hard forks splitting bitcoin by date and/or block: Bitcoin Cash: Forked at block 478558, 1 August 2017, for each bitcoin (BTC), an owner got 1 Bitcoin Cash (BCH)

  9. Does Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto have a dead man’s switch?

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    Nonetheless, as the creator of Bitcoin retreats deeper into myth, it's fun to imagine the black swan event of them returning with one final message. Have a great weekend. Jeff John Roberts