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This year has seen a massive upswing in demand for the limited space available within bitcoin blocks, leading to higher fees for on chain transactions. Much of the demand is for transactions revealing…
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In brief Helius, a Solana infrastructure startup, raised a $3.1 million seed round. The development platform was co-founded by former Coinbase and Amazon engineers. Solana infrastructure startup Helius today announced that it raised…
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This is a transcribed excerpt of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” hosted by P and Q. In this episode, they are joined by Paul Sztorc to break down why all roads lead to proof-of-work…