Windows 10 offers a background update feature for programs to update themselves in the background without any interruption. The service is called BITS or Background Intelligent Transfer Service.

BitMEX Research grantee Calvin Kim has announced that the Utreexo project can successfully finish Bitcoin’s Initial Block Download (IBD) 62% faster than Bitcoin Core. Kim also noted that the speedup ...

Bitcoin light clients are now able to sync to the tip of the blockchain nearly instantly, thanks to a new development enabled by bitcoin startup ZeroSync and their work in zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs.

Bitcoin inscriptions have been out for a few more weeks, so we follow up on the fee market and block usage to observe what’s changed after 100,000 inscriptions. The below is an excerpt from a recent ...

We learned a few days ago that those with rooted devices were no longer able to download the Netflix app from the Play Store. This was suspected to be related to Netflix’s adoption of the Widevine DRM ...