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What Happens When a Bitcoin Block Is Full? Every Byte Sparks a Live Fee Auction

When Bitcoin traffic gets heavy, a full block does not stop the network; it turns the next available space into a live auction where urgency has a price. Key Takeaways Bitcoin blocks cap at 4 million weight units, forcing lower-fee payments to wait. Bitcoin Core 31.0 can evict weak packages when a node’s 300 MB

Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Shares Jump on $9.8 Billion AI Data Center Deal

Bitcoin miner Hut 8’s shares rose Monday after the Toronto Stock Exchange- and Nasdaq-listed firm said it had signed a second 15-year lease worth $9.8 billion for its AI data center.  Hut 8 shares peaked as high as $106 a pop before dropping to around $101. They closed Monday up over 10%.  The deal will

The Download: making Bitcoin greener, and Elon Musk’s chatbot plans

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The Download: hydrogen’s potential, and Twitter’s terrorism accusations

Plus: Microsoft's Bing is stopping you from making prompts about "feelings" This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. When hydrogen will help climate change—and when it won’t.  Hydrogen is often heralded as a climate hero because when it’s used as

The Download: the oldest corner of the metaverse, and how EV batteries work

Plus: Bing goes off the rails This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Welcome to the oldest part of the metaverse Today’s headlines treat the metaverse as a hazy dream yet to be built. But if it’s defined as a

The Download: mitigating methane emissions, and testing AI-developed drugs

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. These startups hope to spray iron particles above the ocean to fight climate change A Palo Alto–based startup wants to begin releasing iron particles into the exhaust stream of a shipping vessel crossing…...

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Created by landscape designers, the plans come with native plant lists for 19 different US eco-regions. Published February 9, 2023 01:47PM EST For much of history, gardening has served as a way to tame nature. Whether by coaxing specific edible items from the earth or simply for the splendor of an ornamental landscape, gardening has

The Download: ChatGPT’s origins, and making cement greener

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The Download: generative AI for video, and detecting AI text

Plus: Google has announced its ChatGPT rival This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The original startup behind Stable Diffusion has launched a generative AI for video What’s happened: Runway, the generative AI startup that co-created last year’s breakout text-to-image

The Download: fighting pregnancy misinformation, and the ethics of organ donations

Plus: a Chinese 'spy balloon' has been spotted above the US This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. How Indian health-care workers use WhatsApp to save pregnant women Across India, an all-women cadre of 1 million community health-care workers are

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What Happens When a Bitcoin Block Is Full? Every Byte Sparks a Live Fee Auction

When Bitcoin traffic gets heavy, a full block does not stop the network; it turns the next available space into a live auction where urgency has a price. Key Takeaways Bitcoin blocks cap at 4 million weight units, forcing lower-fee payments to wait. Bitcoin Core 31.0 can evict weak packages when a node’s 300 MB

Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Shares Jump on $9.8 Billion AI Data Center Deal

Bitcoin miner Hut 8’s shares rose Monday after the Toronto Stock Exchange- and Nasdaq-listed firm said it had signed a second 15-year lease worth $9.8 billion for its AI data center.  Hut 8 shares peaked as high as $106 a pop before dropping to around $101. They closed Monday up over 10%.  The deal will

Metaplanet’s Bitcoin Japan Announces Plan to Scoop Up Coins Despite Market Downturn 

Bitcoin Magazine Metaplanet’s Bitcoin Japan Announces Plan to Scoop Up Coins Despite Market Downturn  Metaplanet subsidiary Bitcoin Japan is starting a crypto treasury.  This post Metaplanet’s Bitcoin Japan Announces Plan to Scoop Up Coins Despite Market Downturn  first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Mathew Di Salvo...

Bitcoin-Treasury Capital B Plans 10-for-1 Reverse Stock Split for September

Capital B, the Paris-listed bitcoin treasury company once known as The Blockchain Group, will combine every 10 existing shares into one new share beginning September 8, according to a regulatory filing the company published Monday. The consolidation reduces the number of outstanding shares from 300,650,632 to 30,065,063. Each new share will carry a par value