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Bitcoin Price Analysis: UASF Anticipation Pushes Toward New ATHs

SegWit soft fork support continues to rise steadily as a viable option to the blocksize debate. New revelations regarding Jihan Wu and Bitmain’s possible...

Is a Mining Manufacturer Blocking SegWit to Benefit from ASICBOOST?

In a post on the Bitcoin development mailing list today, Blockstream CTO and long-time Bitcoin Core contributor Greg Maxwell laid out the case that an unnamed Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer...

Bitcoin Price Analysis: Is A Bullish Reversal Coming?

Bitcoin miner support for SegWit has continued to rise slowly over the past few days, currently sitting at 30%, but remains far from the...

Bitcoin Price Analysis: What Position Are You Planning For?

Over the past week, the Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Unlimited (BTU) discussion has reached fever pitch on social media. Based on the current trajectory,...

Are Bitcoin Miners Making More Money Off Small Blocks?

Nearly every block of transactions on the Bitcoin network has been full for the past couple of weeks, and miners are reaping the benefits...

Bitcoin Politics Seep into Altcoins: SegWit Adoption Slow Across the Board

Since most altcoins are based on Bitcoin’s codebase, upgrades to Bitcoin are often relatively easy to implement in altcoins. Indeed, as Segregated Witness (SegWit)...

Bitcoin Price Analysis: Preparing for Hard Fork Eventualities

Currently, there is growing support to split Bitcoin into two different currencies via a hard fork: Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) and Bitcoin Core. BU would...

Bitcoin is Now Useless for Micropayments, But Solutions are Coming

The Bitcoin blockchain is basically becoming useless for low-value, instant purchases. Frankly, if you’re ordering a beer at a bar, you’re better off using...

The Latest Twist to the Block Size Debate Is Called a “UASF”

Just when Bitcoin’s long-lasting scalability dispute appeared to have reached a deadlock, a pseudonymous mailing-list contributor may have presented a way out.Segregated Witness (SegWit),...

Bitcoin’s Capacity Increase from Segregated Witness Could Kick in Fast

Segregated Witness (SegWit) is a proposed soft-forking change to the Bitcoin protocol that, among other things, increases capacity of the network. In addition to...
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