Thursday 1 March 2018

r/Bitcoin recap - February 2018


Hi Bitcoiners!I’m back with the fourteenth monthly Bitcoin news recap.For those unfamiliar, each day I pick out the most popular/relevant/interesting stories in r/Bitcoin and save them. At the end of the month I release them in one batch, to give you a quick (but not necessarily the best) overview of what happened in bitcoin over the past month.You can see recaps of the previous months on Bitcoinsnippets.comA recap of Bitcoin in February 201801: Princeton’s Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency technologies course & The Indian government clarifies it is isn’t legalising or making bitcoin illegal & 3 accountants answer tax-related cryptocurrency questions02: A history lesson on Bitcoin crashes & A presentation on Bulletproofs by Benedikt Bünz03: The mempool of unconfirmed transactions is clear as more exchanges batch their transactions & Milton Friedman predicted Bitcoin 25 years ago04: A discussion on the correlation between the bitcoin price and tether05: Coinbase will be implementing SegWit this month06: The chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission makes positive remarks about the potential of Bitcoin & Australia’s major banks confirm they won’t ban buying bitcoin07: Singapore confirms it will not ban cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin & An explanation of ‘Graftroot’, a proposal for more space efficiency in MAST08: Bitpanda implements transaction batching and SegWit & Introducing the ‘Formercoiner’ & The European Central Bank president says European banks could soon hold bitcoin09: Rabobank gets fined $369M for money laundering after refusing bitcoin businesses to open bank accounts due to money laundering risks & Coinbase is hiring more open source developers for the cryptocurrency space10: Anonymity in Bitcoin11: The senate in Arizona votes to accept tax payments in bitcoin12: A warning to switch from btc.com mining pool as it is growing dangerously large13: Advances in block propagation by Gregory Maxwell & Cryptocurrencies are not a threat according to Bank of Japan & Microsoft is collaborating to build on top of Bitcoin’s layer 2 protocols & A demo of a Coinbase integration with Lightning14: Someone shares the desktop cryptocurrency tracker they built15: Africa’s first bitcoin exchange & 50 apartments are sold for bitcoin in Dubai & Another update from the bitcoin Pineapple Fund16: Ellen Degeneres introduces Bitcoin to her 3M viewers & Bank of America has filed the most cryptocurrency patents17: Using bitcoin as an incentive for recommending professionals for jobs & More luxury companies are trying to serve cryptocurrency millionaires18: A video demonstrating the speed of the Lightning Network & Poland’s Central Bank secretly paid YouTubers to slander cryptocurrencies19: More evidence shows that most Bitcoin Unlimited nodes were operated by one person20: Bitfinex adopts SegWit21: Someone donates 1BTC each to Samourai Wallet, JoinMarket, Qubes OS and ZeroLink22: The mempool of transactions completely emptied as all kinds of services are implementing scaling solutions & Robinhood Crypto Trading is live23: Andreas Antonopoulos on why running a Bitcoin full node is important & Ledger Wallet gets new desktop and mobile applications24: Laszlo Hanyecz orders pizza again but this time using the Lightning Network25: Vladimir Putin says Russia needs “Blockchain”26: Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 is released & Nick Szabo shares a list of cypherpunk research & Poloniex is acquired by Circle & Someone who pretends to be Satoshi Nakamoto gets a $10 Billion lawsuit filed against them27: SegWit adoption rises as Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 gets more adoption & An overview of possible attacks on Bitcoin & Some electronics stores are constantly sold out of graphics cards due to cryptocurrency mining & WizSec proves a Satoshi Nakamoto pretender doesn’t own any of the bitcoins claimed28: SegWit adoption rises to over 30% & Bill Gates is still confused about Bitcoin via /r/Bitcoin http://bit.ly/2FIo0ST

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