"There is no such thing as consensus on the Lightning Network; instead, we have compatibility. That means you can literally break the rules of the majority, as long as there are other people that have an incentive to break the rules with you. "
Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. But there is a logical reason that some Bitcoin users get extremely angry at certain members of the greater crypto asset community.
Bitcoin exchanges play a major role in determining which coin retains the BTC name since they list the currencies that are traded under specific names.
Come November, the remaining signatories of the “New York Agreement” (NYA) plan to deploy the “SegWit2X” hard fork to double Bitcoin’s block weight limit,...
Segregated Witness (SegWit) has activated on Bitcoin. As of today, all SegWit-ready nodes on the Bitcoin network are enforcing the new rules, marking Bitcoin’s biggest protocol upgrade to date.