It's going to be a stressful month for bitcoin, but in the big picture, breakups can be healthy for the ecosystem – and possibly for society.
MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito is joining the ranks of outspoken critics who believe the market for blockchain-based tokens is overheated.
Day one of Scaling Bitcoin 2017 presented a change of pace for an event that grew out of the network's technical contention.
Bitcoin startups that were once sold on Segwit2x are preparing for a split, signaling that the market should decide how the hard fork plays out.
A new programming language, debuted at Devcon Tuesday, promises to boost levels of privacy to the ethereum blockchain.
CoinDesk offers a high-level overview of the coming Segwit2x fork, how it differs from the hard forks before it and what it might mean for bitcoin.
More and more blockchains may be forking, but developers still don't think they've quite found the best way to execute the upgrade.
Bitcoin developers are making progress on Schnorr, a function for aggregating signatures and in turn, a way to increase the capacity of the network.
Should bitcoin's technology change to accommodate merchant users? New data from one of the network's biggest startups is fueling the debate.
The Lightning Network isn't yet live on bitcoin, but that doesn't mean developers aren't theorizing the kinds of ambitious apps that it could enable.
With a lull in activity, what's really going on under the Segwit2x hood? According to many developers, now is the calm before the storm.
A soon-to-be-launched cryptocurrency based on an acclaimed white paper is considering a novel strategy for future blockchain upgrades.
One of the more theoretical attempts at scaling blockchain networks is taking steps toward launching it's own network for further testing.
Ethereum's answer to bitcoin's Lightning Network will have one notable difference – a publicly traded token to be sold in a Dutch auction in October.
The developers behind Raiden Network have launched an early, simplified version of the scaling solution on the ethereum test network.