Zcash Latest Hard Fork 'Heartwood' Makes Mining Private
Privacy coin zcash has successfully hard forked at block height 903,000 in a planned network update known as “Heartwood.”
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Marlin has open sourced its OpenWeaver relay network to help speed up low latency mempool syncs of the Ethereum network and support decentralization.
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After Years of Resistance, BitPay Adopts SegWit for Cheaper Bitcoin Transactions
Payments processor BitPay has added support for SegWit, three years after a competing block size proposal fractured the Bitcoin community.
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Cryptography Startup Brings Private Payment Channels to Tezos Blockchain
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Ethereum Developers Delay Berlin Hard Fork to Stem Client Centralization Concerns
79% of Ethereum nodes run on Geth. Core developers have pushed back July's Berlin hard fork so other clients can catch up.
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Ethereum Developers Consider New Fee Model as Gas Costs Climb
With EIP 1559, Ethereum developers are proposing a dynamic pricing system to lower the blockchain network's current high gas fees.
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