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Speed Launches USDT-L, Tether’s First Iteration on Top of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

Speed Launches USDT-L, Tether’s First Iteration on Top of Bitcoin’s Lightning NetworkSpeed, the company behind the Speed Wallet, has launched USDT-L, the first iteration of Tether, the largest stablecoin on the crypto market, on top of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (LN). The wrapped token, which takes advantage of the “taproot assets” protocol recently rolled out by Lightning Labs, seeks to bring all the benefits of LN to […]

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Bitcoin Network Difficulty Expected to See Largest Increase of the Year Amid High Hashrate, Shorter Block Times

Bitcoin Network Difficulty Expected to See Largest Increase of the Year Amid High Hashrate, Shorter Block TimesAfter a small decrease of 0.49% on Feb. 12, 2023, Bitcoin’s network difficulty is expected to experience a significant increase in three days on Feb. 24. Estimates indicate the difficulty could see the largest rise of the year, surpassing the 10.26% increase that occurred on Jan. 15 at block height 772,128. Next Bitcoin Difficulty Change […]

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Current Block Times and Estimates Suggest Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Is About to Catapult Much Higher

Current Block Times and Estimates Suggest Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Is About to Catapult Much HigherAs bitcoin is coasting along under the $20K region, the network’s hashrate is still riding high at 250.04 exahash per second (EH/s) following the all-time high (ATH) the hashrate tapped on October 5. At the time of writing, the current speed at which blocks are processed is faster than the typical ten-minute average block intervals […]

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