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BIP 9: Enabling Easier Changes and Upgrades to Bitcoin

Consensus and governance have been two main topics of conversation in the Bitcoin community over the past year. While making changes to Bitcoin Core...

Amid Bitcoin Scaling Debate, Segregated Witness Testnet Enters Public Stage

Proposed Bitcoin scaling solution, Segregated Witness, enters Public eye with SegNet launch

On Consensus, or Why Bitcoin’s Block-Size Presents a Political Trade-Off

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...

Unlimited, Classic and ‘BitPay Core’: Bitcoin’s New Kids on the Blockchain

Referred to as the Satoshi client, Bitcoin QT, Bitcoin Core , or simply Bitcoin’s reference client, the original Bitcoin implementation as introduced by Satoshi...

Coinomi Founder John Jegutanis: Scale Bitcoin by Decreasing Latency

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,...

Bitcoin Wallet Developer Andreas Schildbach: I Will Not Invest My Time in Lightning Networks

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.

Segregated Witness, Part 3: How a Soft Fork Might Establish a Block-Size Truce (or Not)

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.

Segregated Witness, Part 2: Why You Should Care About a Nitty-Gritty Technical Trick

The first part of our three-part Segregated Witness series covered how it works. In this second part: What it does.

BTCC COO Samson Mow: Without Consensus on Block-size Limit, Stakeholders Might Implement an Increase

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...

Ciphrex’s Eric Lombrozo: There Is No ‘December Deadline’

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...
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