Bitcoin can be a confusing technology, and little is more confusing to new users than trying to wrap their heads around Bitcoin's forks. This is, in part, because there are different types of forks with very different implications.
Over the weekend, information surfaced that could suggest that mining giant Bitmain may be facing an uphill battle as it looks to launch an IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
Segregated Witness (SegWit), the highly anticipated protocol upgrade proposed by the Bitcoin Core development team, just reached the point of no return for lock...
The SegWit2x dev team plans to implement BIP91, a proposal that cleverly makes the BIP148 UASF and SegWit2x, two conflicting activation methods, compatible.
