Marathon said the bug emanated from its experimental mining pool used to research ways to optimize operations. Bitcoin mining firm Marathon Digital has confirmed it mined an invalid Bitcoin (BTC) block during an “experiment” aimed at optimizing the firm’s operations. In a Sept. 27 post, Marathon said it utilizes a small percentage of the firm’s hashrate…
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According to recent Bitcoin data, the count of pending transactions, still awaiting confirmation, has plummeted beneath the 300,000 mark, while onchain fees have seen a reduction over the past week. Starting from July 29, the average onchain fees have fallen below the $1 threshold for each transaction, and as of July 31, 2023, the average…
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Throughout the past week, the Bitcoin blockchain has successfully confirmed over 187,000 unconfirmed transactions, as shown by recent statistics. This has not only reduced a significant portion of the congestion but also led to a decrease in onchain fees within the same period. Bitcoin Fees and Unconfirmed Transactions Slide Lower Although Bitcoin’s backlog of transactions…
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Since Luxor, a bitcoin mining pool, mined a record-setting 3.96 MB block (#774,628) on the Bitcoin blockchain, block sizes have been larger than they were prior to that block height in the past 12 days. Statistics show that blocks larger than 3 MB are now quite common, and demand for Ordinal inscriptions has risen as…
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