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.

Bitcoin Roundtable Announcement Thwarts Bitcoin Classic Launch

Bitcoin Classic, the Bitcoin implementation set to double Bitcoin's 1 megabyte block size limit by a hard fork, suffered a significant setback shortly after its official release this week....

BitPay’s Stephen Pair: Community Needs to Become Proficient at Managing Bitcoin Forks

As opposing sides in Bitcoin's long-lasting scaling dispute seem to be inching closer, one of the remaining sources of contention is not whether, but how to achieve a small...

Slush Pool Introduces Provably Fair Bitcoin Mining

Bitcoin mining today is dominated by mining pools. These mining pools arguably have a strong hold on the Bitcoin network, but also on their own participants. Since mining pools...

On the Detriments of Segregated Witness for Bitcoin

Segregated Witness has been the center of Bitcoin’s long-lasting scaling debate since it was first introduced by Blockstream co-founder and Bitcoin Core developer Dr. Pieter Wuille two months ago. A...

NBitcoin’s Nicolas Dorier: Segregated Witness Fastest Way to Bump Block Size

The long-lasting block size dispute has catapulted into the center of attention again. One of the most talked about developments is Segregated Witness, of which a public testnet iteration...

Bitcoinj Maintainer Andreas Schildbach: Segregated Witness Worth the Effort

In part seven of this series, Bitcoin Wallet developer and bitcoinj maintainer Andreas Schildbach talks about SegWit's future

Core Developer Jonas Schnelli: Segregated Witness Improves and Optimizes Bitcoin Protocol

In part six of this series, Bitcoin Wallet developer and bitcoinj maintainer Andreas Schildbach talks about SegWit's future

Electrum Developer Thomas Voegtlin: Soft Fork Preferable for Political Reasons

In part five of this series, Bitcoin Wallet developer and bitcoinj maintainer Andreas Schildbach talks about SegWit's future

Mycelium’s Leo Wandersleb: Segregated Witness a Technical Necessity

The long-lasting block-size dispute has catapulted into the center of attention again. One of the most talked-about developments is Segregated Witness, of which a public testnet iteration was launched...

Breadwallet CEO Aaron Voisine: SegWit Soft Fork First, Block Size Hard Fork Later

The ongoing block size dispute has catapulted to the center of attention again. One of the most talked-about developments is Segregated Witness, of which a public testnet iteration was...

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