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War of the Words: Who’s Said What About a Bitcoin Fork?

CoinDesk rounds up the various announcements from industry startups in the wake of speculation the bitcoin network could see a technical split.

Business  ·  28 March 2017
Bitcoin

A Short Guide to Bitcoin Forks

Don't know a hard fork from a soft fork? This guide is designed to help you follow bitcoin's raging technical debates.

Tech  ·  27 March 2017
Bitcoin

Charts: Determining the Ideal Block Size for Bitcoin

What's the ideal block size? CoinDesk contributor Willy Woo analyzes the charts for answers in his latest opinion piece.

Tech  ·  24 March 2017
Bitcoin

Keep Calm and Bitcoin On? Developers Aren’t Worrying About a Fork

As the discussion heats up over the possibility of a bitcoin hard fork, some developers are playing down the likelihood of a split.

Tech  ·  24 March 2017
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Core Roadmap Unveils Signature Optimization Plan

Bitcoin developers outlined a plan today to replace the network's signature scheme with an alternative.

Tech  ·  23 March 2017
Bitcoin

Fork Fallout? A Bitcoin Split Could Become a Legal Mess

Should the bitcoin network split into rival chains, those impacted in the fallout may be unable to turn to courts for recourse, lawyers say.

Tech  ·  23 March 2017
Hard Forks

Developers Discuss Wallet Safety Under Hard Fork Conditions

A proposal for how bitcoin wallets could be protected under adversarial conditions is seeing discussion among Bitcoin Core developers.

Tech  ·  22 March 2017
Bitcoin

Fire the Miners? Radical Ideas Emerge as Bitcoin Fork Talk Escalates

As tensions rise in bitcoin's scaling debate, support is growing for a solution that could sideline miners should they try to force a code change.

Tech  ·  22 March 2017
Mining

Bitcoin Unlimited: Mining Power Should Determine Hard Fork

The developers behind an alternative bitcoin software took steps today to allay fears that an upgrade to its code would be disruptive to the market.

Tech  ·  20 March 2017
Bitcoin Protocol

‘Super UASF’: Could a Clever Idea Break Bitcoin’s Scaling Deadlock?

An experimental 'user-activated soft fork' for pushing through a controversial bitcoin code change took another step forward this week

Tech  ·  15 March 2017
Bitcoin Protocol

Nobody Understands Bitcoin (And That’s OK)

Does anyone understand bitcoin? This multifaceted technology is different things to different people, and we should accept that, argues Jameson Lopp.

Markets  ·  11 March 2017
Bitcoin

How Bitcoin’s P2P Layer Got a Speed Hike in the Latest Core Release

MIT-funded developer Cory Fields discusses his work overhauling the code for Bitcoin Core's peer-to-peer layer – a task that was anything but easy.

Tech  ·  10 March 2017
Lightning Network

Rootstock is Fusing Lightning With On-Chain Scaling – On a Sidechain

A unique proposal aimed at scaling bitcoin’s transaction capacity via sidechains has been revealed in a new white paper.

Tech  ·  8 March 2017
Bitcoin

What You Need to Know About Bitcoin’s Upcoming Code Release

Bitcoin’s best-known proposed code change isn’t the only one that matters.

Tech  ·  6 March 2017
Bitcoin

Faster Than Lightning? ‘Sprite’ Paper Envisions New Bitcoin Payments

Researchers have laid out a framework for a payment system they claim would be even faster than bitcoin's Lightning Network.

Tech  ·  23 February 2017