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BlockCypher Ethereum Outage Post-Mortem 2020–11–11

On Monday November 11, BlockCypher Ethereum API experienced a severe service disruption as a consequence of an unplanned hard fork on the…
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Quentin Le Sceller
Nov 18, 2020
A Guide to BlockCypher’s New Bech32 Features

A Guide to BlockCypher’s New Bech32 Features

Recently, we introduced several bech32 features into our APIs. Overall, bech32 introduces a new address format and lower transaction fees…
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Quentin Le Sceller
Apr 21, 2020
BlockCypher Adds Bech32 Support

BlockCypher Adds Bech32 Support

BlockCypher has added support for Bech32 addresses! Our support for Segwit was missing a way to address native transactions properly. The…
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Catheryne Nicholson
Oct 29, 2019
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To Catch a Thief

Hunting for an attacker leads to a Grin bug
Go to the profile of Quentin Le Sceller
Quentin Le Sceller
May 15, 2019
Grin Mining Pool Profitability

Grin Mining Pool Profitability

Depending on the price of the cryptocurrency you’re mining, margins can be razor thin or highly lucrative. Earnings can vary dramatically…
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Catheryne Nicholson
Apr 25, 2019

Grin Mining Software Performance Update #1

The Grinmint team will be providing news on mining software when we see important updates or releases. This is to help our miners maximize…
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Matthieu Riou
Mar 15, 2019
Ethereum Woes

Ethereum Woes

BlockCypher’s Ethereum API was knocked out for almost a month due to the Constantinople Hard Fork. This post-mortem explains what happened…
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Catheryne Nicholson
Mar 11, 2019
Niagara Falls Into Grinmint

Niagara Falls Into Grinmint

TL;DR. We added significant infrastructure to Grinmint and are inviting more hashpower; we are committed to provide the most transparent…
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Catheryne Nicholson
Feb 5, 2019
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