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What is Bitcoin Reorg? Is it really possible to reorg Bitcoin blockchain?

coinguides — Thu, 09 May 2019 12:49:27 +0000

Binance, a leading cryptocurrency exchange has recently suffered a large scale security breach which resulted in a loss of 7000 Bitcoin. At current price its around 43 Million USD. Not sure whether if it is really got hacked or not; which is another story. But anyways Binance said that none of the users are affected …

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CryptoDredge 0.14.0 – Support for Lyra2REv3 and performance improvements

coinguides — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 05:49:21 +0000

There are number of closed source miners available for NVIDIA GPUs, but only few are active in terms of support and development. CryptoDredge is one of them that is constantly working on improving the software. Every new update has got bug fixes and performance optimizations on a number of algorithms. Not only that, but the …

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How to mine MTP (Merkle Tree Proof) – Zcoin XZC hard fork upgrade guide

coinguides — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 14:49:54 +0000

For a cryptocurrency to succeed it first needs to achieve wider distribution. In order to achieve this a coin must provide fair mining solution so that even home miners can participate and earn some coins through mining. But today this is not something that you can find in most coins. Cryptocurrency mining is largely dominated …

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Bitcoin Confirmations – All you need to know about block confirmations

coinguides — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 09:09:49 +0000

Whether you send Bitcoin or receive Bitcoin; the status of your transaction will initially remain “unconfirmed”. Once the transaction is verified and successfully included in the blockchain the status will then change to “confirmed“. In Bitcoin; for the “unconfirmed transaction” to become “confirmed” that is to get 1 confirmation it will take about 10 minutes. …

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Ravencoin (RVN) Testnet is ready – Asset layer binaries v2.0.1. released

coinguides — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 08:01:45 +0000

If you are mining Ravencoin then you know that the developers were working on implementing asset layer functionality to the Raven network. According to their roadmap the release of asset capabilities on Ravencoin blockchain is expected by 31st of October. To make sure things go as planned the asset support needs to be tested first …

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Bitcoin Gold network upgrade! Equihash-BTG – New PoW Algorithm

coinguides — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 12:50:36 +0000

Bitcoin Gold is a fork of Bitcoin core (BTC) protocol and the main purpose of Bitcoin Gold (BTG) is to make Bitcoin decentralized again. All the features and specifications of Bitcoin Gold is similar to Bitcoin except two aspects; per-block difficulty adjustment and ASIC resistant PoW algorithm. Their mission is to ensure that the system …

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