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Altcoins have a long tradition in the Bitcoin community, but they tend to cause a contentious divide among those who think they’re useful and...

For many people involved with Bitcoin, altcoins are nothing more than testnets. Hundreds of digital currencies are currently listed on CoinCap.io, but Bitcoin still...

Over the past year or two, the main topic of conversation in the Bitcoin community has been how the system is going to eventually...

Funding Bitcoin development seems to have always been problematic.While the Bitcoin industry collectively has raised more than a billion dollars worth of investment over the...

The Linux Foundation is announcing that the Hyperledger Project has filled key leadership positions and 10 new companies are joining the project and investing in the future of an open blockchain ledger: Blockstream, Bloq, eVue Digital Labs, Gem, itBit, Milligan Partners, Montran Labs, Ribbit.me, Tequa Creek Holdings and Thomson Reuters.

Andrew Poelstra is a mathematician at Blockstream and was recently part of a panel discussion on improvements for Bitcoin at the 2016 MIT Bitcoin...

“Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of WarAnyone with experience in extended, unconventional...

In January Bitcoin Magazinereported that PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the world’s largest professional services firm, had started an aggressive blockchain-based fintech development program and recruited 15...

Earlier this year, Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja released the Lightning Network white paper. In it they theorize how a layer on top of...

Blockstream has announced it will launch its first commercial Bitcoin sidechain by early 2016. The sidechain, codenamed “Liquid,” offers instant transactions, providing a fast...