Bitcoin SV (BSV) reached another milestone Wednesday, as the daily transaction volumes eclipsed that of Ethereum (ETH). According to data provided by blockchain analyzer BitInfoCharts, the BSV network added over 660,000 transactions to the BSV ledger versus 622,000 for ETH and 326,000 for BTC during the last 24-hour period. This changing of the guards aligns with how the data has been trending for several months now. Bitcoin SV will soon be recognized by the wider crypto-community as the undisputed leader in transaction volume.

The mining ecosystem recently welcomed a new miner to the fold, as Nourpool mined its first Bitcoin SV block on December 7, 2019. To learn how this mining pool came together and why they chose BSV, we reached out to them to learn more about the men behind the effort and the plans they have for the future.

Gravatar has made the next logical progression as blockchain continues to become more prevalent in everyday life. For those who may not be familiar with it, Gravatar is simply a way to upload an image (or avatar) that can be used everywhere—blogs, web forums and virtually any site that has included the Gravatar plugin. Thanks to one of the more prolific developers on Bitcoin SV (BSV), unwriter, the capability now moves to the next level and can be found on the BSV blockchain through bitpic.

While many of us discovered the power of peer-to-peer technology when Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, Alexander Shulgin had done so a decade prior. Shulgin, who is the founder of the Baikal Blockchain Summit, began using P2P technology in the late 90’s to fight piracy in the music business. He spoke to CoinGeek’s Becky Liggero Fontana during the summit, giving his take on why Bitcoin SV (BSV) is superior and how he became a founding partner of the Bitcoin Association.

Blockchain research and development firm nChain has announced the beta release of its new Nakasendo SDK for Bitcoin SV (BSV) developers.

Jerry Chan is the manager for the Bitcoin Association’s operations in South Korea and Japan, but, even more than that, he is also a lifelong supporter of cryptocurrency. Like many others who realized early on the potential of blockchain and crypto, he also understands the artificial limitations put in place by certain projects such as BTC and Ether. It’s because of this that he supports Bitcoin SV (BSV) and offered his take on where things are headed during the recent CoinGeek Conference Seoul.

Bitcoin Association Founding President Jimmy Nguyen accepted a CHAINSIGHTS award in Beijing on behalf of the Bitcoin SV Node project, which was feted as one of the Blockchain Technology Breakthroughs of the year. The award recognizes blockchain applications that “took the lead in combining blockchain technology with actual application scenarios in 2019.” The Bitcoin SV Node is a project of the Bitcoin Association, the global industry organization which advances Bitcoin SV; its lead developer is Daniel Connolly and technical director is Steve Shadders, and they lead work by a strong development team at nChain.

In just a year, application development has exploded in China on Bitcoin SV. It is now fast becoming the worldwide center of BSV Earn & Use economic model globally. With its fast-paced and tech-savvy atmosphere, it was only fitting for the Bitcoin Association to hold the inaugural mini-conference in China to close out a busy 2019.

Recent investments have come thick and fast as the momentum builds (literally) on the BSV blockchain. BSV can now boast consistently more transactions and bigger block sizes than BTC, but don’t take our word for it: https://coin.dance/.

Bitcoin SV has planned a hard forking upgrade “Genesis” which is getting ready for its launch on 4th Feb of 2020. In order to restore the original Bitcoin protocol, this hard fork will be a significant milestone for the firm.

Across the entire cryptocurrency spectrum, sending funds from one wallet to another has been a daunting task. Users have to have a way to store addresses and remember to whom they belong, or use QR codes or copy/paste features to ensure proper delivery—unless they want to memorize the long hash addresses associated with each wallet. HandCash and Money Button are now advancing the Bitcoin ecosystem further, with the HandCash wallet supporting Money Button features. When it comes to development on the blockchain, BSV is leading the pack.

BitFlyer has announced that they will force liquidation of all their customers’ Bitcoin SV (BSV) coins that have been held in custody since the fork of BSV from BCH more than a year ago. For over a year, customers of the Japanese exchange have been unable to access their BSV assets which were created in a 1:1 ratio to all their BCH holdings after the ledger splitting hard fork where the BSV project diverged from BCH due to ideological and technical disagreements between development teams.

The daily transaction volume of Bitcoin SV (BSV) has surpassed the same parameter for Bitcoin on November 12 and has maintained its dominance.

Your personal and financial data is being borrowed, used, stolen and sold at an alarming rate. Hackers have accessed sensitive customer data from customers at Yahoo (1 billion), Marriott (500 million), eBay (145 million), Target (110 million), Uber (57 million), and JP Morgan (75 million). Equifax, the company we pay to keep our financial data safe, had a breach where 143 million people had their Social Security numbers, addresses, and driver’s license numbers stolen. Facebook has personal data on 32% of the world’s population.

The Bitcoin SV Genesis Hard Fork is fast approaching, scheduled for February 4, 2020. To ensure everything goes smoothly for the return to its original protocol, the Bitcoin SV Node Team has announced a testing and implementation plan for all BSV services to follow leading up to the big date.

Fundstrat Global Advisors, a leading independent market strategy and sector research firm based in New York put out a report in early November titled: “Bitcoin SV: The “big block” Bitcoin targeting enterprise adoption”. You can find the full report here. The firm has a broad range of clients including institutional investors, wealth advisors, pension funds and high net worth individuals. Alex Kern and Sam Doctor, researchers with Fundstrat, prepared the in-depth analysis on BSV for their clients.

Online gambling mogul and Bitcoin SV’s second loudest proponent Calvin Ayre has just formally joined nChain. Ayre will join friend and fellow provocateur of the crypto industry Craig Wright at the company.

Applications are already open for the next round of the Bitcoin Association’s Pitch Day, an event which gives businesses the chance to pitch for investment to a panel of blockchain industry backers. With a specific focus on businesses and apps developing on Bitcoin SV (BSV), the first Pitch Day event was held at the CoinGeek Conference in Seoul in October. The event saw a selected lineup of firms at various stages of the development cycle present their case for investment, at a time of rapid innovation and enterprise in the BSV ecosystem.

There’s no question that Bitcoin SV (BSV) made a splash at the SiGMA iGaming conference in Malta. In the capable hands of Jimmy Nguyen, Founding President of Bitcoin Association, there were three hours of panels, talks and discussions about how BSV and iGaming can benefit each other by a closer relationship: “I’m trying to find a way to bridge those two universes,” he said afterwards.

LONDON, Dec. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent investments have come thick and fast as the momentum builds (literally) on the BSV blockchain. BSV can now boast consi...