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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: China’s dying EV batteries, and why AI doomers are doubling down
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. China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to bury their batteries. In the past decade, China has seen an EV boom, thanks in part to government support. Buying an
The Download: why 2025 has been the year of AI hype correction, and fighting GPS jamming
Plus: the Trump administration wants to hire back all those tech experts that DOGE fired 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 great AI hype correction of 2025 Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web
The Download: introducing the AI Hype Correction package
Plus: Roomba maker iRobot has filed for bankruptcy 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. Introducing: the AI Hype Correction package AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI is the single biggest, most important
The Download: expanded carrier screening, and how Southeast Asia plans to get to space
Plus: OpenAI and Disney have agreed a major AI deal 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. Expanded carrier screening: Is it worth it? Carrier screening tests would-be parents for hidden genetic mutations that might affect their children. It
The Download: solar geoengineering’s future, and OpenAI is being sued
Plus: ICE is tracking pregnant immigrants through smartwatches 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. Solar geoengineering startups are getting serious Solar geoengineering aims to manipulate the climate by bouncing sunlight back into space. In theory, it could ease
The Download: OpenAI’s caste bias problem, and how AI videos are made
Plus: Taiwan has pushed back against America's chip request 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. OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias. Caste bias is rampant in OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, according to
The Download: our thawing permafrost, and a drone-filled future
Plus: America's first AI law is here 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. Scientists can see Earth’s permafrost thawing from space Something is rotten in the city of Nunapitchuk. In recent years, sewage has leached into the earth.
The Download: growing threats to vulnerable languages, and fact-checking Trump’s medical claims
Plus: Huntington's disease has been treated successfully for the first time. 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 AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Wikipedia is the most ambitious multilingual project after the
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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