Daily Archives: 22/09/2020

Bitcoin blockchain size exceeded 300 GB

The size of the full Bitcoin blockchain on September 19 exceeded 300 gigabytes. This is the size of the complete history of BTC transactions for almost 11 years of its existence. According to Blockchain.com, full Bitcoin nodes now need over 300GB to download and save BTC transaction history to disks and synchronize with the Bitcoin network. https://bits.media/upload/medialibrary/abd/bitcoin-sizw.jpg While this amount of data may seem significant, a 1TB hard drive is sufficient to store the entire…

Former top managers of the largest banks launch a cryptocurrency hedge fund

Former heads of banking units HSBC, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch in the Asia-Pacific region launched a cryptocurrency hedge fund Liquibit Capital with assets of $ 50 million. The founders of the cryptocurrency fund are Joseph Chang, who served as Head of Equity Trading at Merrill Lynch, HSBC and Citigroup from 1997 to 2016, and his partner Grahame Webb, who previously served as Head of Technology for HSBC and Citigroup. … They began trading cryptocurrencies in…