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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
Chinese Stocks Gain as State-Backed Insurers Advocate Long-Term Investments
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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: murky AI surveillance laws, and the White House cracks down on defiant labs
Plus: a satellite firm that exposed Iranian strikes has stopped sharing imagery 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. Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI? The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense
The Download: an AI agent’s hit piece, and preventing lightning
Plus: Anthropic is still chasing a deal with the Pentagon. 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. Online harassment is entering its AI era Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to
The Download: inside the QuitGPT movement, and EVs in Africa
Plus: social media firms have agreed to be assessed on how effectively they protect teens' mental health 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. A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions In September, Alfred Stephen
The Download: Making AI Work, and why the Moltbook hype is similar to Pokémon
Plus: OpenAI is bringing ads to ChatGPT 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. A first look at Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s new AI newsletter Are you interested in learning more about the ways in which AI
The Download: what Moltbook tells us about AI hype, and the rise and rise of AI therapy
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. Moltbook was peak AI theater For a few days recently, the hottest new hangout on the internet was a vibe-coded Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social network for
The Download: inside the Vitalism movement, and why AI’s “memory” is a privacy problem
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. Meet the Vitalists: the hardcore longevity enthusiasts who believe death is “wrong” Last April, an excited crowd gathered at a compound in Berkeley, California, for a three-day event called the Vitalist Bay
The Download: chatbots for health, and US fights over AI regulation
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. “Dr. Google” had its issues. Can ChatGPT Health do better? For the past two decades, there’s been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new medical symptoms: Look them up
The Download: digitizing India, and scoring embryos
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 man who made India digital isn’t done yet Nandan Nilekani can’t stop trying to push India into the future. He started nearly 30 years ago, masterminding an ongoing experiment in technological
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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
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Chinese Stocks Gain as State-Backed Insurers Advocate Long-Term Investments
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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
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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...
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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