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Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Poon Call Out Craig Wright at Deconomy 2018

Deconomy, an international blockchain forum, is taking place in Seoul, South Korea, from April 3 to 4 at the Walkerhill Hotel. Organizers have looked...

Four Visions for Scaling Bitcoin: A State of Digital Money Panel

At the recent State of Digital Money event in Los Angeles, Bitcoin scaling was the topic of conversation for a panel consisting of Airbitz...

Exploring the Centralization Risks of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

For the vast majority of Bitcoin Core contributors, the Lightning Network is viewed as the best option for scaling Bitcoin to many millions of...

Greg Maxwell: Lightning Network Better Than Sidechains for Scaling Bitcoin

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

Bitcoins Are Not Tied Up on the Lightning Network, Say Creators Poon and Dryja

The Lightning Network is viewed by many as a serious improvement for Bitcoin in terms of scalability, but there are still plenty of critics...

Bitcoin Lightning Network Creators: Fees Will Be Effectively Zero

Roughly two months ago, Lightning Network creators Joseph Poon and Tadge Dryja visited the Coinbase offices to explain how their design works and answer...

MIT Bitcoin Expo Day One Focuses on Technology

Following last week's DC Blockchain Summit at Georgetown University, the MIT Bitcoin Club kicked off its annual Expo this weekend, bringing together Core Contributors...

MIT Hosts Annual Bitcoin Expo March 5 and 6 to Explore Challenges Facing Bitcoin

On March 5th and 6th, the MIT Bitcoin Club is hosting its annual Bitcoin Expo in the Samberg Conference Center on the MIT campus....

Preliminary, Simplified Implementation of Bitcoin Lightning Network Released

Lightning networks are considered a promising innovation in the Bitcoin space, which would make the Bitcoin system much more scalable and able to process...

Blockstream Starts Development on the Lightning Network

The authors of the much-discussed Bitcoin Sidechains paper “Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains,” released in October, have formed the company Blockstream to develop...
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