Scaling

Since its release on August 6th, Bitcoin XT, a patch set on top of the existing Bitcoin Core, has focused the bitcoin community’s attention...

Starting tomorrow, potential users will be able to start buying Factoids, the currency that powers Factom, from Koinify. Factom is described as “a data...

Adam Back and Austin Hill announced on Let’s Talk Bitcoin their newest project: “sidechains”. The idea, they described, would allow for the existence of alternative blockchains, perhaps with different rules allowing various kinds of additional features or transaction types, but with a currency unit whose value is pegged to that of the bitcoin.