Bitcoin News
By Dan Saada
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Ethan Buchman, Co-founder of Cosmos in this Twitter handle, expressed: Lots of folks think Bitcoin governance is dead and the protocol ossified.
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Taproot is a big deal for the bitcoin network, especially as it relates to smart contracts.
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Coindesk recently published a content: “When Will Bitcoin's Taproot Upgrade 'Lock In'?
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Colin Harper wrote: “Taproot now has more than the required minimum of miners signaling support to lock in the upgrade, but the upgrade isn’t a shoe-in just yet.
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There is a lot of attention to the issues with PoW of late, and here is why for those who are not acquainted with the basics.
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The enormous amounts of electricity used to run the networks are indispensable in PoW. Mining new coins take a lot of computing power because of the Proof of Work (PoW) algorithm.
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However, the Proof of Work (PoW) algorithm works by having all nodes solve a cryptographic puzzle. This puzzle is solved by miners.
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Apart from power consumption, nodes with better equipment and power on the network get more work. And those who create more block get the miner reward.
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So, to sum it up, Proof of work is causing miners to use massive amounts of electricity, and it encourages the use of mining pools which makes the blockchain more centralized as…
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Not only PoS, but many other systems are also getting proposed to push BTC out of the ring ultimately.
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