Basic Attention Token Today: How Brave’s BAT Economy Has Changed Since 2017
By Rust Smith
Basic Attention Token (BAT) was one of the most recognizable cryptocurrency projects to emerge from the 2017 market cycle. Unlike many tokens launched during that...
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CoinEx Is Closing: Remembering the Cryptocurrency Exchange That Put Emerging Altcoins on the Map
By Rust Smith
CoinEx, a cryptocurrency exchange that has served traders since the early days of the modern altcoin market, is preparing to close after nearly nine years...
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Read.cash Returns Without the Bitcoin Cash Rewards That Defined It
By Rust Smith
Read.cash occupies an interesting place in Bitcoin Cash history because it demonstrated what inexpensive peer-to-peer payments could add to online publishing. Writers produced articles, readers...
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QDAY Builds a Cryptocurrency Designed to Survive Its Own Cryptographic Death
By Rust Smith
QDAY is one of the more imaginative proof-of-work cryptocurrencies to appear recently, although originality should not be confused with proven value or security. Unlike the...
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BitcoinZ (BTCZ) Price Movement Revives Interest in Community-Mined Cryptocurrency
By Rust Smith
BitcoinZ (BTCZ) has returned to traders’ attention after its market price recently climbed to approximately $0.00002, recording a positive weekly return as the wider cryptocurrency...
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ReSatoshi Introduces a 100-Year Rule for Recycling Lost Bitcoins
By Rust Smith
ReSatoshi is one of the more thought-provoking new cryptocurrency experiments because it changes a rule most blockchain users take for granted: coins remain under the...
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Jetsam (JTM) Uses Recursive Proofs to Keep Nodes Lightweight
By Rust Smith
JETSAM (JTM) is one of the most technically interesting new cryptocurrency projects I have examined recently. JETSAM focuses on a difficult long-term blockchain problem: how...
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Core Lightning Security Update Urges Bitcoin Lightning Network Node Operators to Upgrade
By Rust Smith
Core Lightning has released an urgent security update addressing multiple confirmed vulnerabilities in software used to operate Bitcoin Lightning nodes. Core Lightning, commonly abbreviated as...
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Lumenite (LMT) Introduces HomeScrypt Mining
By Rust Smith
Lumenite (LMT) is an encouraging new cryptocurrency project because it begins with a straightforward objective: make proof-of-work mining practical for people using ordinary computer hardware....
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Inside MONEU: A New Approach to Cryptocurrency Wallet Security
By Rust Smith
MONEU is one of the more unusual new cryptocurrency projects I've examined. It is not simply another Bitcoin fork with a different name and block...
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Bitcoin Core vs Bitcoin Knots

By Rust Smith on October 11, 2025

Bitcoin Core is the original bitcoin node software and its developers want to due away with the 80 byte max size limit for OP_Return data…