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SegWit Goes Live: Why Bitcoin’s Big Upgrade Is a Blockchain Game-Changer

SegWit will finally activate on bitcoin today after years of debate. But, what exactly is the code change and what does it enable?

Tech  ·  23 August 2017
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SegWit in the Wild: 4 Lessons Bitcoin Can Learn from Litecoin

How will SegWit impact the bitcoin network? Data from the already upgraded litecoin blockchain can provide an answer.

Tech  ·  10 August 2017
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It’s Official: Segregated Witness Will Activate on Bitcoin

Passing a key threshold on Wednesday, the bitcoin network will soon be upgraded with a long in-development code change.

Tech  ·  8 August 2017
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A New SegWit Lock-In Period Has Started and All Mining Pools Are Signaling

A milestone has been hit in the potential activation of Segregated Witness, code that would upgrade the network's capacity.

Tech  ·  27 July 2017
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Beyond Segwit2x: Paul Sztorc Thinks Bitcoin Needs a New Scaling Roadmap

While current scaling proposals near collision, Paul Sztorc details a vision of bitcoin's future, including Lightning Network and Drivechain.

Tech  ·  13 July 2017
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Pieter Wuille’s Latest Project: Making Bitcoin Harder to Lose

One of bitcoin's most prolific developers is attempting to make bitcoin addresses more user-friendly.

Tech  ·  12 May 2017
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Bitcoin Needs More Politics, Not Less

On the two-year anniversary of a post that sparked a thousand bitcoin debates, Jim Harper analyzes the state of developer politics.

Tech  ·  4 May 2017
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Craig Wright’s New Company is Building a Bitcoin Core Competitor

A secretive startup called nChain is gearing up to launch an alternative implementation of the bitcoin software for use by developers.

Business  ·  2 May 2017
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Purse Launches Testnet for Bitcoin Scaling Tech ‘Extension Blocks’

Bitcoin startup Purse is moving ahead with development on 'extension blocks' a proposal to help mitigate bitcoin's current bandwidth issues.

Tech  ·  25 April 2017
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UASF Developer Revises Controversial Bitcoin Scaling Proposal

A controversial solution to bitcoin's scaling debate has been updated by the pseudonymous developer who proposed it.

Tech  ·  25 April 2017
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From AsicBoost to UASF: Greg Maxwell on Bitcoin’s Path Forward

Greg Maxwell discusses his assertions about an alleged controversial mining technique and the way forward for bitcoin.

Tech  ·  13 April 2017
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The Hidden History of Bitcoin Unlimited

A deep dive into the history of Bitcoin Unlimited, a bitcoin implementation seeking to become the dominant software on the network.

Tech  ·  8 April 2017
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The ‘Big Block’ Bitcoin Movement is Embracing Bcoin

A new bitcoin implementation called 'Bcoin' is attracting wide support as a means to end the scaling debate.

Tech  ·  7 April 2017
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An Open Letter to Decentralized Protocols Looking for Growth

Marketing expert Jeremy Epstein discusses the importance of the brand for blockchain startups in this open letter to the industry.

Markets  ·  7 April 2017
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Purse Proposal Touts Extension Blocks as Bitcoin Scaling Solution

Bitcoin startup Purse is spearheading work on a new solution it believes could break the network’s long-simmering scaling gridlock. In a new blog post issued today, Purse has released a specification that includes demo functionality and code for upgrading its bitcoin software implementation, Bcoin, to support “extension blocks”. The technical update seeks to enable the network […]

Tech  ·  4 April 2017