Matt Corallo

As Taproot, the latest consensus protocol change, approaches activation, Bitcoin developers are asking how exactly the network should be upgraded.

Announcing the second-generation mining pool protocol.

Billed as “A Peer-to-Peer Conference,” Bitcoin 2019 will be held at SVN West in San Francisco, California, hosted by BTC Inc., from June 25–26, 2019.

Matt Corallo's BetterHash mining protocol is intended to significantly decrease the problems associated with mining pool centralization.

At the core of Bitcoin’s scaling debate has been the block size limit. For better or worse, the majority of the discussions about scaling...

Empty blocks have turned into a controversial topic in the Bitcoin community over the past few months. This renewed attention on the topic has...

The Fast Relay Network, also known as Matt Corallo's Relay Network, is a relatively straightforward relay network setup by Corallo, and has existed for some years. The Fast Relay Network consists of nine nodes, distributed strategically around the globe. Designed as a hub-and-spoke model, miners can connect to the relay node closest to them to send and receive blocks over this network. This is significantly faster than Bitcoin's peer-to-peer network.

What’s wrong with increasing the block size limit? This is the question that a portion of the Bitcoin community has been asking almost nonstop...

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,...

Corallo's relay network serves two distinct purposes. First, it adds diversity to Bitcoin. Rather than just needing to rely on the peer-to-peer network, Bitcoin users can opt to receive transaction data and blocks through an alternative channel. This makes it harder to successfully attack the Bitcoin network; the relay network functions as a fallback. But the second, and more important reason, is a potential decrease of network latency.