The Great Firewall, Taproot Adoption and Public Miners

Published: Wed, 12/01/21

December 1, 2021
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How long will Taproot adoption take?

It may take years for the improvements of taproot to be actionable and in the meantime, developers will be working on integrating it into their wallets, along with all its benefits. Taproot was a soft work so there wasn't as much controversy over it, meaning everything is backwards compatible. 

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Mining pools blacklisted by China's 'Great Firewall.'

China escalated attacks against the mining industry Thursday, adding mulitple mining pool IP addresses to its infamous “Great Firewall.” Bitcoin and Ethereum mining pools BTC.com, Poolin, Binance Pool, ViaBTC and F2Pool suffered major DNS outages

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Riot Blockchain reported a record-breaking third quarter.

.Profitability for Riot over the quarter improved dramatically, ushered by record-shattering growth in Bitcoin production, expanding operations, data center hosting, and efficiency improvements. Riot increased Bitcoin production to 1,292 from 676 coins

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Pool rug? What to know about ETH miner payouts ahead of The Merge.

Pool subscribers will find themselves on the wrong end of an agency problem as The Merge approaches.

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