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Why ViaBTC Rejects SegWit Soft Fork in Favor of Block Size Hard Fork: Interview With Haipo Yang

Set to offer an effective block size limit increase, a transaction malleability fix and more, SegregatedWitness (SegWit) could soon go live on the Bitcoin network....

Bitmain Reveals Plans for Major Bitcoin Mining Data-Center in Northwestern China

Beijing-based Bitcoin ASIC hardware producer and mining giant, Bitmain, announced on November 5 that it’s in the process of building a major data center complex...

Segregated Witness Officially Introduced With Release of Bitcoin Core 0.13.1

Today marks the release of Bitcoin Coreversion 0.13.1. This is the official introduction of Segregated Witness, the long-awaited centerpiece of Bitcoin Core’s scalability road map. Starting...

Chain Releases Open-Source Version of Chain Core Technology Powering Visa’s New B2B Connect

On October 21, 2016, Visa announced a new partnership with blockchain enterprise company Chain that will develop “a simple, fast and secure way to process B2B payments...

Bcoin: A “Menace to the Network” or an Enrichment of the Bitcoin Ecosystem?

Purse is best known as a peer-to-peer marketplace and gift card service where users can save money using Bitcoin through Amazon’s e-commerce platform. Now,...

The Long History and Disputed Desirability of Alternative Bitcoin Implementations

Coinciding with the opening of the Ethereum Foundation’s Devcon2 conference in Shanghai this week, significant parts of the Ethereum network were crashing. In what seemed like an attack...

Roger Ver Is Still Determined to Increase the Bitcoin Block Size Limit via a Hard Fork

Two attempts to increase Bitcoin’s block size limit via hard forks — Bitcoin XT and Bitcoin Classic — have failed to gain much support...

An Interview With ViaBTC, the New Bitcoin Mining Pool on the Blockchain

Roughly two weeks ago, ViaBTC, a relatively new bitcoin mining pool that launched earlier this summer, garnered some attention on social media due to...

A Primer on Bitcoin Governance, or Why Developers Aren’t in Charge of the Protocol

As one of its most important properties and a key selling point, Bitcoin is not controlled by any government, (central) bank or company. Nor...

What’s New in Bitcoin Core 0.13.0?

Bitcoin Core 0.13.0, the thirteenth generation of Bitcoin's reference client as first launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost eight years ago, has now been tagged for...
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