Aaron Van Wirdum

Aaron Van Wirdum
364 POSTS0 COMMENTS
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 Role of Bitcoin Nodes: Do Full Nodes Running in Data Centers Benefit the Bitcoin Network?

Since its launch, Bitcoin Classic's node count has steadily increased. The latest release of the alternative Bitcoin implementation even topped the charts, with almost 3,000 Bitcoin Classic 0.12 nodes reachable on...

A Closer Look at Reddit Vote Manipulation About Bitcoin

The r/Bitcoin subreddit has increasingly become a major source of news and information for anyone interested in Bitcoin. Established in 2010 and counting more than 170,000 subscribed accounts today,...

Bitcoin RBF, Bitcoin Knots and Bitcoin Addrindex: Three Core Forks That Don’t Break With Consensus

Bitcoin Core, descendant of the original Bitcoin software launched by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, has always been Bitcoin's reference client. The implementation, formerly known as Bitcoin QT, proposes standards...

BTCC’s Samson Mow on Block Size: The Bitcoin Community Must See Through Manipulation, Keep Calm and Write Code

Samson Mow is the Chief Operating Officer of Chinese Bitcoin exchange, wallet service and mining pool BTCC. A successful executive in the video game industry, Mow joined the Bitcoin company...

The Case for Replace-By-Fee (And the Case Against)

The heated debate in the Bitcoin community throughout the past months not only concerns the block size dispute. Another technical change at the center of conflict is replace-by-fee, a...

Electrum Launches Mobile Wallet for Android, iOS Coming

Electrum, Bitcoin's popular lightweight wallet, launched a new version of its software this week. Apart from a desktop client, Electrum 2.6 is now available on Android as well, with an...

‘Bitcoin Always Needed More Than One Body of Developers’: An Interview With Libbitcoin’s Eric Voskuil

Launched in 2011 by an ensemble of dedicated open-source developers led by Bitcoin’s rebellious hacker Amir Taaki, Libbitcoin was born a tool of resistance. Offering an alternative to the original Bitcoin client,...

Why Some Changes to Bitcoin Require Consensus: Bitcoin’s 4 Layers

The long-lasting block size dispute and the recent introduction of several new Bitcoin implementations highlighted that not all Bitcoin nodes apply the exact same rule – and, perhaps more...

D10e Kicks Off Blockchain Conference Series in Amsterdam

D10e, the newly re-branded edition of the conference formerly known as Coin Congress, kicked off in the spacious and freshly painted rooms of Amsterdam's monumental Beurs van Berlage commodity exchange last...

Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 Released: What’s New?

Today marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0.12.0, the twelfth generation of Bitcoin's reference client as first launched by Satoshi Nakamoto seven years ago. Developed by close to...

Get daily news in your inbox

- Advertisment -