Aaron Van Wirdum

Aaron Van Wirdum
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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.

How Light Clients Can Protect Themselves From a Bitcoin Coin-Split

Bitcoin could soon split in two. If Bitcoin Unlimited miners start mining blocks exceeding one megabyte, these would be rejected by full Bitcoin nodes like Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin...

A Bitcoin Beginner’s Guide to Surviving a Coin-Split

There is a chance Bitcoin will experience a coin-split soon. If a majority of miners (by hash power) switch to Bitcoin Unlimited and decide to mine blocks bigger than...

Bitcoin Politics Seep into Altcoins: SegWit Adoption Slow Across the Board

Since most altcoins are based on Bitcoin’s codebase, upgrades to Bitcoin are often relatively easy to implement in altcoins. Indeed, as Segregated Witness (SegWit) is slow to activate on...

Major Exchanges Will Consider Bitcoin Unlimited a “New Asset”

If a Bitcoin Unlimited hard fork leads to a coin-split, major bitcoin exchanges will list coins on that branch as a new asset: BTU.Earlier this week, the world’s largest...

This Security Researcher Found the Bug That Knocked Out Bitcoin Unlimited

For over a year, attackers have had the ability to crash Bitcoin Unlimited and Bitcoin Classic nodes. Yesterday, someone actually did it. According to websites like Coin Dance, the...

SEC Dashes Hopes of a Bitcoin ETF — For Now

The COIN ETF is a no-go.Almost four years in the making, in a highly anticipated verdict published earlier today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected the the...

Bitcoin Privacy for All: Breeze Wallet Is About to Bring TumbleBit to Life

TumbleBit, one of the most promising privacy advancements built on top of Bitcoin, will be implemented in the upcoming Breeze Wallet.The Breeze Wallet is a bitcoin wallet in development...

Can Ethereum Classic Classic Become Ethereum Classic’s Ethereum Classic?

Ethereum Classic is preparing another hard fork. It was announced in statements published last week that the project’s development and mining community is committing to a change in its...

Bitcoin Core 0.14.0 Released: What’s New?

Today marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0.14.0, the fourteenth generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakamoto eight years ago. Overseen by Bitcoin Core lead...

The Latest Twist to the Block Size Debate Is Called a “UASF”

Just when Bitcoin’s long-lasting scalability dispute appeared to have reached a deadlock, a pseudonymous mailing-list contributor may have presented a way out.Segregated Witness (SegWit), the Bitcoin protocol upgrade proposed...

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