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SegWit or Not, Bitfury is Getting Ready for Lightning With Successful Bitcoin Main Net Test

Bitfury is getting ready to deploy a version of the Lightning network with or without the SegWit protocol upgrade.

Bitcoin Miners Miss the First BIP 148 “Deadline”

Bitcoin miners at large have missed the first BIP 148 “deadline” to prevent a “split” in Bitcoin’s blockchain.

Op Ed: Why SegWit2x Makes No Sense

A number of Bitcoin companies and miners have agreed to run code that will implement a hard-forking increase to the non-witness data in blocks...

Bitcoin Miners Are Signaling Support for the New York Agreement: Here’s What that Means

As of today, over 80 percent of miners (by hash power) are including the letters “NYA” in the blocks they mine. Here's what that means.

BIP91: The SegWit Activation “Kludge” That Should Keep Bitcoin Whole

The SegWit2x dev team plans to implement BIP91, a proposal that cleverly makes the BIP148 UASF and SegWit2x, two conflicting activation methods, compatible.

The Moonbeam Scaling Network: A “Semi-Decentralized” Scaling Solution

Moonbeam aims to provide a way for multi-user Bitcoin platforms to offload transactions from the Bitcoin network via standardized one-way payment channels.

Op Ed: Here’s Why All Rational Miners Will Activate SegWit Through BIP148

A segment of the Bitcoin community is preparing a user activated soft fork (UASF), using Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 148 (BIP148). If they go through with...

Qtum’s Block Size Limit Will Be Governed by Smart Contracts: Here’s How

Qtum is an up-and-coming smart contract platform set to launch in September of this year. Sometimes ambitiously referring to itself as “China’s Ethereum,” the...

DCG’s Bitcoin Scaling Proposal and What it Needs to Succeed

Spearheaded by Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group (DCG), this week over 50 companies signed and published a “Bitcoin Scaling Agreement” on Medium. The agreement intends to...

These Two UASFs Could Activate SegWit

Segregated Witness (SegWit), the Bitcoin protocol upgrade proposed by the Bitcoin Core development team, was originally designed to activate via the Bitcoin Improvement Protocol...
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