Aaron van Wirdum

Bitcoin technologies made great progress in 2018. In part two of our series, we look at advances in privacy, sidechains and Schnorr signatures.

Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year in which “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.

In this third and final overview: the main takeaways and latest developments of the second week since the Bitcoin Cash split.

Here are the main takeaways and latest developments in the week following the Bitcoin Cash split.

Bitcoin Cash has now “hard forked” (split) into two different coins: “Bitcoin Cash ABC” (BCH ABC) and “Bitcoin Cash SV” (BCH SV). Here's an overview of where things stand so far.

Contention about a new upgrade has left the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem divided, which could once again lead to a split into several projects and coins. Here’s what you need to know to get up to speed.

Bitcoin Core 0.17.0 includes a range of performance improvements and bug fixes, as well as other changes. Here’s an overview of some of these changes.

Two cryptocurrency projects, Grin and Beam, are close to realizing versions of the Mimblewimble protocol, designed to increase Bitcoin's privacy.

Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these system to work, it comes with a significant downside:...

The good news is that the Bitcoin protocol is safe and the bug was never exploited in any way. Still, it could have allowed for one of the worst attacks on Bitcoin in years.