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The ongoing block size dispute has catapulted to the center of attention again. One of the most talked-about developments is Segregated Witness, of which...

The long-lasting block-size dispute has catapulted into the center of attention again. One of the most talked about developments right now is Segregated Witness,...

Updated on Jan. 22, 2016 at 11:50 EST:Bitcoin Magazine recieved a response from major Chinese Bitcoin exchange Huobi, which indicated that the situation was...

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

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, the proposal put forth by Blockstream developer Dr. Pieter Wuille, has been trumpeted as a block size scaling solution that gets...

Hard forks are a rather contentious issue in Bitcoin. The controversy surrounding hard forks can be seen most prominently in the context of Bitcoin...

It has been little over a week since Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen included Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 101 (BIP 101) into the alternative Bitcoin...

Alternative cryptocurrencies have been an important part of the Bitcoin ecosystem for a long time; the first one to reach any prominence, Namecoin, was...

It has been just over two months since the bitcoin block chain was rocked by a near disastrous fork causing the bitcoin price to...