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Op Ed: Here’s Why the Bitcoin Price Skyrocketed in 2016 Despite Scalability Concerns

For the past two years, the main topic of conversation in the Bitcoin community has been the scalability debate. While the peer-to-peer digital currency...

Ethereum Overtakes Litecoin in Market Cap after Continued Upward Trend

On January 23, Ethereum overtook Litecoin for the first time to become the third-largest digital currency when looking at total coin market cap. This...

BIP 9: Enabling Easier Changes and Upgrades to Bitcoin

Consensus and governance have been two main topics of conversation in the Bitcoin community over the past year. While making changes to Bitcoin Core...

Bitcoin Wallet Developer Andreas Schildbach: I Will Not Invest My Time in Lightning Networks

Rather than relying on additional layers built on top of the blockchain, developer Andreas Schildbach believes the network should be designed to scale “on-chain”, too.

Ciphrex’s Eric Lombrozo: There Is No ‘December Deadline’

The long-lasting block-size dispute seems to be inching toward a climax. A large segment of Bitcoin's academic and engineering community has been discussing the...

Gavin Andresen: I Might Take Over Lead of Bitcoin XT

With Mike Hearn taking a step back from Bitcoin development to work for private blockchain startup R3, former Bitcoin Core lead developer Gavin Andresen...

Are Blocks Filling up, and Is That a Problem?

With the recent spike in bitcoin's exchange rate, there has been a surge in transaction volume on the Bitcoin network, too. And while most...

Can Flexcaps Settle Bitcoin’s Block Size Dispute?

The block size dispute, perhaps the first ever real political controversy within the Bitcoin community, has raged for years, with no clear long-term solution...

BitPay CEO Stephen Pair: We’re Open to Alternative Block-size Proposals

BitPay, one of the top funded companies and most-used payment processor in the Bitcoin industry, is open to alternative block-size proposals – not just...

Adam Back on the Risks of Benevolent Dictatorship in Bitcoin

The idea of a benevolent dictator for Bitcoin has become a topic of conversation throughout the community lately due to Mike Hearn’s role as the final authority...
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