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BIP91: The SegWit Activation “Kludge” That Should Keep Bitcoin Whole

The SegWit2x dev team plans to implement BIP91, a proposal that cleverly makes the BIP148 UASF and SegWit2x, two conflicting activation methods, compatible.

Op Ed: Here’s Why All Rational Miners Will Activate SegWit Through BIP148

A segment of the Bitcoin community is preparing a user activated soft fork (UASF), using Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 148 (BIP148). If they go through with...

Bitmain Responds to UASF With Another Bitcoin Hard Fork Announcement

Bitmain today announced that it may launch a “hard fork” in response to the upcoming BIP148 user activated soft fork (UASF).

Bitcoin Price Analysis: Best Month Finishes With Potential for Bigger Highs (and Lows)

Bitcoin just had its best month since November 2013.Price found a top last week at nearly $2,800, which was a 200 percent rally from...

These Two UASFs Could Activate SegWit

Segregated Witness (SegWit), the Bitcoin protocol upgrade proposed by the Bitcoin Core development team, was originally designed to activate via the Bitcoin Improvement Protocol...

Litecoin Has Now Deployed Segregated Witness

It’s official. Litecoin, one of the oldest and biggest altcoins by market cap, deployed Segregated Witness (SegWit) today. The protocol upgrade that was originally...

Bitcoin Core 0.14.1: SegWit Signalling and Memory Accounting

The Bitcoin Core project, launched by Satoshi Nakamoto eight years ago and today led by Wladimir van der Laan, aims to release a new...

How Bitcoin Extension Blocks Are Backward Compatible — and How They’re Not

Through a splash in the media, Purse and its in-house-built alternative Bitcoin implementation Bcoin recently presented their scaling proposal, dubbed “To the Moon.” Where...

Breaking Down Bitcoin’s “AsicBoost Scandal”: The Solutions

As first revealed by Bitcoin Core developer and Blockstream Co-Founder and CTO Gregory Maxwell, and subsequently confirmed by Bitmain through a press release, the...

Bitcoin.com and ViaBTC Claim SegWit Support is Overblown

The percentage of Bitcoin’s network hashrate signaling support for Bitcoin Unlimited has more than doubled from 16 percent to 35 percent over the past...
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