Shark Tank star Mark Cuban recently aired his thoughts on Ethereum’s upcoming “Merge” upgrade. He pointed out how Ethereum’s utility as a smart contract platform and as a deflationary asset are at odds. In an interview with Altcoin Daily on Sunday, Cuban explained that there is an inverse relationship between deflation and utilization of Ethereum. “If utilization goes up, and the value of a token goes up, then the cost to do something goes up,” he explained. “So you have…
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Bitstamp Exchange Now Fully Supports SegWit Bech32 Addresses
On the 27th of February 2020, Bitstamp announced adding full support for SegWit bech32 Bitcoin addresses. The announcement said that all Bitstamp users can now withdraw Bitcoin to bech32 addresses and develop new deposit addresses in this format. In this case, Bitstamp generated new Bitcoin deposit addresses for all its clients. When depositing Bitcoin onto the exchange, Bitstamp users can now choose between the old format or the bech32. Nevertheless, the exchange prefers all users to switch to bech32, claiming…
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