Despite the size of the change, bitcoin businesses have yet to champion a newly introduced protocol upgrade.
If they so choose, miners can now safely signal their support for a major bitcoin update.
There aren't many steps left before bitcoin's Lightning Network will be finished — or at least an early version of it.
A bitcoin mining conference held by one of the network's largest miners saw what some have labeled an unscientific discussion of scaling the network.
With little likelihood of a single scaling solution that will please everyone, is a hard fork inevitable?
A small tweak to bitcoin could have a big impact.
The future of bitcoin could be impacted by a mysterious new mining pool, one that has shown it's willing to go its own way on technical debates.
Day two of Scaling Bitcoin in Milan showcased how bitcoin's technical community is trying to put the contentious "block size debate" in the rearview.
The fungibility of bitcoin emerged as a central topic of debate on day one of the annual Scaling Bitcoin conference in Milan.
Bitcoin's Lightning Network has passed another key milestone.
The event schedule for next week's Scaling Bitcoin conference is now available.
The team behind a long-contentious proposal to upgrade the bitcoin protocol is making new funding available for research.
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin gave a lengthy speech at Devcon2 this week focused on efforts to scale the protocol.
The idea that bitcoin and blockchains run on "consensus" among their users is counterproductive, argues Jim harper.
A late July gathering featuring members of bitcoin’s development and mining communities will not focus on scaling.