Consensus and governance have been two main topics of conversation in the Bitcoin community over the past year. While making changes to Bitcoin Core...
Bitcoin’s block-size dispute rages on. A proposed change to a single parameter in Bitcoin’s reference implementation has spawned into a great debate, resulting in...
Referred to as the Satoshi client, Bitcoin QT, Bitcoin Core , or simply Bitcoin’s reference client, the original Bitcoin implementation as introduced by Satoshi...
John Jegutanis, co-founder of bitcoin and altcoin mobile walletCoinomi, recently proposed the concept of ”Soft Blocks“ to help scale Bitcoin. Soft Blocks, Jegutanis says,...
Rather than relying on additional layers built on top of the blockchain, developer Andreas Schildbach believes the network should be designed to scale “on-chain”, too.
The first and second parts of our three-part Segregated Witness series covered how it works and what it does. In this final part we explore what it means for the block-size dispute.
BTCC Chief Operating Officer Samson Mow indicated that the leading Chinese mining pool and exchange supports an incremental increase of Bitcoin's block-size limit to...
The long-lasting block-size dispute seems to be inching toward a climax. A large segment of Bitcoin's academic and engineering community has been discussing the...