Amid increasing distrust of custodial solutions and recent upgrades to Bitcoin Core, more Bitcoiners are starting to run their own nodes. The number of Bitcoin nodes is at an all-time high, with 11,558 reachable nodes currently active, according to Bitnodes.io. Another Bitcoin network statistics tracker, coin.dance, calculates the total number of Bitcoin nodes at 11,613,…
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Eth2 staking has its downsides — people may not have the means to contribute 32 ETH, or the technical knowhow to run a node. Can these issues be solved? How does this ecosystem work? There are three key roles within the Stkr ecosystem. Providers deliver the computing resources that drive the Eth2 nodes — and…
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Penn State snagged one of GoChain’s node operator spots. Pennsylvania State University, a U.S. university touting more than 40,000 students, has agreed to operate as a signing node for GoChain’s proof-of-reputation, or PoR, blockchain. Constructed as a fork of the Ethereum blockchain’s code, GoChain is secured by selected entities that run their own nodes, Marie…
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Some are concerned the proposal could set a dangerous precedent. Polkadot (DOT) validator Web3Italy has been “slashed” and “chilled” after going offline for 14 hours on Aug. 10 and 11. This means that the validator has lost their staked tokens and been temporarily kicked from the network, respectively. Web3Italy went offline at the same time…
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Some Parity and OpenEthereum users are stuck between a bugged client and a months-long resync. An update in the OpenEthereum client, the community successor of the Parity client for Ethereum, made the nodes running on the new version essentially useless. The bug appears to have been introduced in the 2.7.2 version of OpenEthereum, upon which…
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Stateless clients research promises to make blockchain nodes lighter without sacrificing validation, but there are stumbling blocks in their cryptography. Research into stateless clients for Ethereum is seen as instrumental for the long-term health of the network, but despite all the progress, some fundamental limitations prevent them from being applied in practice for now. At…
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The Nxt and Ardor blockchains see drastic increases in the number of network nodes after rolling out an incentives program. The Nxt (NXT) and Ardor (ARDR) blockchains have seen a spike in the number of network’s nodes after rolling out an incentives program. Jerulidia — the company behind both blockchains — told Cointelegraph on April…
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Major Ethereum browser extension and wallet service Metamask has revealed that Google has now reversed its short-lived ban on the software. Major Ethereum browser extension and wallet service Metamask has something to celebrate as 2020 kicks off, notifying its users that Google has now reversed its short-lived ban on the browser add-on. In a tweet…
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Algorand, a blockchain network developed by the eponymous American blockchain firm, is expected to upgrade to version 2.0.2 today. Algorand, a decentralized blockchain network developed by the eponymous American blockchain firm, is expected to upgrade to version 2.0.2 today. The upcoming network upgrade is poised to increase the amount of time for nodes to upgrade…
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Bitcoin node sync would be impossible without the scalability improvements implemented in the node software, according to BitMex Research. Bitcoin (BTC) node synchronization would be impossible if it were not for the improvements that have been made to the software, according to the research arm of crypto exchange BitMex. BitMex Research measured the Initial Block…
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