Aaron van Wirdum is interested in technology and how it affects social and political structures. He has been covering Bitcoin since 2013, focusing on privacy, scalability and more. Hodls BTC.
The SegWit2x dev team plans to implement BIP91, a proposal that cleverly makes the BIP148 UASF and SegWit2x, two conflicting activation methods, compatible.
A segment of the Bitcoin community is preparing a user activated soft fork (UASF), using Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 148 (BIP148). If they go through with it, there could be two...
This is a re-write of A Bitcoin Beginner’s Guide to Surviving a Coin-Split, specifically addressing issues associated with the upcoming BIP 148 UASF. (Update: And the BCC launch.)July 26th...
Update, May 30th: While the use and circulation of virtual currencies is banned in Bolivia, it is now unclear whether that's what the suspects are really charged with. Reports...
Qtum is an up-and-coming smart contract platform set to launch in September of this year. Sometimes ambitiously referring to itself as “China’s Ethereum,” the project recently raised $15 million...
Spearheaded by Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group (DCG), this week over 50 companies signed and published a “Bitcoin Scaling Agreement” on Medium. The agreement intends to put an end to Bitcoin’s...
Segregated Witness (SegWit), the Bitcoin protocol upgrade proposed by the Bitcoin Core development team, was originally designed to activate via the Bitcoin Improvement Protocol 9 (BIP 9) standard, a...
The AsicBoost controversy has added another chapter to its book.Yesterday, law firm Getech Law published an open letter, which was subsequently confirmed to be legitimate by Timo Hanke, the...
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