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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...

Adam Back on Three Forms of Centralization That Have Crept Into Bitcoin

At the crux of the block-size limit debate in Bitcoin is an argument between scaling and securing the network. Although raising the block-size limit would allow...

Back to the Future: Adam Back Remembers the Cypherpunk Revolution and the Origins of Bitcoin

Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast host Trace Mayer interviewed legendary cryptographer Adam Back on his role in the creation and deployment of some of the most potent privacy software...

Bitcoin XT Big Block Fork Spurs Debate and Controversy

Since its release on August 6th, Bitcoin XT, a patch set on top of the existing Bitcoin Core, has focused the bitcoin community’s attention...

Blockstream Moves Ahead with Sidechain Elements, the First Implementation of Sidechains

The authors of the much-discussed Bitcoin Sidechains paper “Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains,” released in October, formed the company Blockstream to implement sidechains...

Side Chains: The How, The Challenges and the Potential

Adam Back and Austin Hill announced on Let’s Talk Bitcoin their newest project: “sidechains”. The idea, they described, would allow for the existence of alternative blockchains, perhaps with different rules allowing various kinds of additional features or transaction types, but with a currency unit whose value is pegged to that of the bitcoin.

Cointerra Announces GoldStrike1 ASIC

Cointerra, the Austin, Texas based ASIC Bitcoin mining hardware firm has announced its completion of the design of the new “Goldstrike1” mining processor. The...
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