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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Looking to the Past and the Future

Our top Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchain stories from the past week.

The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin’s Motor Block

A look at how the technology underlying Hashcash — proof of work — would shape research into digital money for more than a decade to come.

Sidechains: Why These Researchers Think They Solved a Key Piece of the Puzzle

One developing technology called sidechains promises to make it easier to move tokens across blockchains and, as a result, open the doors to a world of possibilities.

How the Blockstream Satellite Will Drive Bitcoin Adoption: An Interview with Adam Back and Chris Cook

Last week Bitcoin Magazinecovered the announcement of Blockstream Satellite, a new service that broadcasts real-time Bitcoin blockchain data from satellites in space to almost...

Blockstream Satellite: Broadcasting Bitcoin from Space

Blockstream Satellite is a new service that broadcasts real-time Bitcoin blockchain data from satellites in space to almost everyone on the planet.

Bitcoin Mining Titan BitFury: No to BIP 101, Yes to Block-size Consensus

In anticipation of the Scaling Bitcoin Hong Kong workshop on the 6th and 7th of this month, BitFury has re-established its belief...

MultiBit’s Jim Burton: Satoshi’s Vision of a Peer-to-Peer Currency Needs Bigger Blocks

Jim Burton, the British lead developer of “lightweight” Bitcoin client MultiBit, favors a rapid block-size increase in order to allow for more transactions on...

Slush Pool to Re-Enable BIP 101 Bitcoin Mining

Slush Pool, a Czech-based Bitcoin mining pool accounting for 6 percent of hashing power on the Bitcoin network, indicates it will re-enable connected miners...

Notable Bitcoin Core Contributors Now Open to Increasing Block-size Limit to 2 or 4MB

Although some individuals in the Bitcoin community believed that nothing would come out of the recent Scaling Bitcoin workshop in Montreal, it seems that...

Adam Back on the Risks of Benevolent Dictatorship in Bitcoin

The idea of a benevolent dictator for Bitcoin has become a topic of conversation throughout the community lately due to Mike Hearn’s role as the final authority...
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