Blockchain Industry Updates
Crypto && Coffee 021
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: We are now 19 days away from the block reward halving! The Bitcoin Core v0.20.0 release candidate is now available…
Crypto && Coffee 020 | Security and Stablecoins
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: We are now 26 days away from the block reward halving. The MIT Bitcoin Club has posted all videos…
Crypto && Coffee 019 | Thirty-Four Days Until the Halvening
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: BitMEX Research released Mining Incentives (Part 4): The Impact of The Halvening. We are now only 34 days away! …
Crypto && Coffee 018 | Banque de France Publishes RFP for CBDC
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: We are less than 50 days away from the next block halving event! On May 13, 2020…
Crypto && Coffee 017 | Blockchain Managers are Essential Personnel
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: Development on Taproot is progressing. This week a PR opened up on simplifying the code used for VerifyWitnessProgram. The 32-byte witness program will…
Crypto && Coffee 016 | Pull Requests and Volatile Markets
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: A pull-request (PR) that was originally issued in September of 2019 for Bitcoin Core, aimed at improving the per-opcode verification…
Crypto && Coffee 015 | Buy Crypto with Credit
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: Bitcoin Core v0.19.1 has been released. Bitcoin developer Bryan Bishop released python-bitcoinlib v0.11.0, now with segwit examples. Developers gathered in Boston last weekend…
Crypto && Coffee 014 | Bitcoin Hash Rate Hits All-Time High
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: Bitcoin hash rate is currently at an all-time high. Full metrics here. Ethereum: This past weekend and week,…
Crypto && Coffee 013 | FATF Releases the Results of its February Meeting
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: The bitcoin-dev mailing list heated up this week with posts regarding how a Bitcoin transaction can leak…
Crypto && Coffee 012 | Lending Protocols Exploited
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: btcdeb (Bitcoin Script Debugger) by Kalle Alm now inherently supports miniscript. The tool now shows the miniscript tree alongside the script…
Crypto && Coffee 011 | Bitcoin Exceeds 500 Million Transactions
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: On February 5th, 2020, at block height 616064, Bitcoin surpassed 500 million transactions. Ethereum: In an AMA last week led by…