Alan Handfield

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Bitcoin Nodes Rise But Network Updates Slow

Today I decided to update my bit bitcoin wallet, and sync it with the network. I am now running Bitcoin Core 0.14.2 on my 'full node' machine, and have about 2 months of transaction to catch up on.

The interesting thing is that though there are 1000+ more full nodes on the network, its is updating very slow, and currently reports that I have 2 weeks wait time to get fully updated.

This tells me, that many of the 1000+ new nodes, are doing the same thing as me and queuing on the network waiting...

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Related topics : bitcoin cash wallet / bitcoin wallet transfer time

Unconfirmed Bitcoin Transactions on the Rise Again

Today sees another day with thousands of Bitcoin transactions in the queue, waiting to be confirmed by the mining network.

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Related topics : bitcoin transactions per day