Latest XBT news
Every XBT (Bitcoin BLAKE2b) story we've picked, newest first.
Will Strategy follow the same fate as GBTC?
Yes—except the structural fallout will be significantly worse. GBTC was an unleveraged trust; Strategy is an encumbered debt vehicle.
40,242 pre-fork XBT moved for the first time in one day
@friedcash's tracker shows 40,242 pre-fork coins were spent on the XBT chain for the first time today, bringing the total moved since the split to 1.29M XBT, or 6.43% of supply.
How much XBT has actually moved since the fork?
A new daily tracker from @friedcash shows that only about 6.2% of XBT's pre-fork supply (1.25M coins) has been claimed or moved since the split, with 93.6% still untouched and 39.5K newly mined.
RedWallet: an iPhone XBT wallet enters beta testing
A BlueWallet fork adapted for XBT can now send and receive XBT on iPhone through TestFlight. The developer is looking for 20 testers and code reviewers, and warns it's an unaudited early beta, so use tiny amounts only.
"XBT is full of builders": a clip on XBT vs BTC culture
A short video clip, shared by @Jacobsen17T, argues that XBT's community is made up of builders while BTC's has turned parasitic.
A live map of the XBT Lightning Network
Connor's Lab built a free visualizer that maps XBT's Lightning Network nodes and channels, viewable at lightning.paperclippool.xyz/network.
Why isn't XBT on Coinbase, Kraken or Binance?
One line: A Bitcoin consultant asks why big exchanges that list countless altcoins haven't listed XBT, and argues the reason is that XBT is sound money, not a shitcoin.
A BLAKE2b pleb's 5 rules for dealing with influencers
A community post urging XBT users to judge influencers by their ideas, avoid sponsored voices, scrutinize every dev proposal, and put node runners first.
Ripple’s David Schwartz Explains Why Exchanges May Avoid Bitcoin BLAKE2b
BLAKE2B “BITCOIN” TRADES FOR $82 AS BTC HOLDS NEAR $77,000
Where it started.
BLAKE2b hardfork activated. Here are the changes:
The best plain explainer of what changed.