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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...

Bitcoin Blocksize Debate to Continue at DevCore with Garzik, Andresen, Antonopoulos and others

Bitcoin luminaries Gavin Andresen, Andreas Antonopoulos, Matt Corallo, Jeff Garzik, Charlie Lee, Greg Maxwell, and Michael Perklin are among the speakers appearing at this...

Notable Bitcoin Core Contributors Now Open to Increasing Block-size Limit to 2 or 4MB

Although some individuals in the Bitcoin community believed that nothing would come out of the recent Scaling Bitcoin workshop in Montreal, it seems that...

Adam Back on Three Forms of Centralization That Have Crept Into Bitcoin

At the crux of the block-size limit debate in Bitcoin is an argument between scaling and securing the network. Although raising the block-size limit would allow...

Nick Szabo on ‘Permissioned Blockchains’ and the Block Size

In many recent articles, Bitcoin Magazine reported the trend toward private, “permissioned” non-Bitcoin blockchains, supported by Accenture and Digital Asset Holdings CEO Blythe Masters, among others. Permissioned blockchain developments for...

CoinWallet Begins Pre-test of Bitcoin Network, Schedules Largest Stress Test to Begin on September 10

The Bitcoin network took a hit yesterday as CoinWallet ran its “stress pre-test” for about thirty minutes resulting in a “2-day delay and a...

An Open Letter to the Bitcoin Community from the Developers

Editor’s Note: This is a letter to the community written and signed by many of the Bitcoin developers, including the most prolific contributors to...

An Open Letter to the Bitcoin Community from the Developers

Editor’s Note: This is a letter to the community written and signed by many of the Bitcoin developers, including the most prolific contributors to...

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...

A Closer Look at BIP100: The Block Size Proposal Bitcoin Miners are Rallying Behind

The block-size limit debate has taken a turn now that some of Bitcoin’s biggest mining pools are publicly endorsing BIP 100 (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 100) instead of backing a Bitcoin...
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