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Here’s Why India’s GBMiners Mining Pool Switched to Bitcoin Unlimited

A few weeks ago, the relatively new India-based bitcoin mining pool GBMiners decided to switch their software from Bitcoin Core to Bitcoin Unlimited. Bitcoin...

Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 Release: Graceful Recovery

The Bitcoin Core development team released Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 on January 3. As a minor release, the latest version of the Bitcoin Core software...

Where Bitcoin Mining Pools Stand on Segregated Witness

For the first time, bitcoin miners have been able to signal support for SegregatedWitness this past week. Developed as a soft fork, the proposed centerpiece...

Slush Pool to Let Hashers Vote on Segregated Witness Activation: “Mining Pools Should Remain Neutral”

Bitcoin’s oldest mining pool, Slush Pool, will let its miners vote on the SegregatedWitness soft fork proposed by Bitcoin Core. By passing this choice down to individual...

How Segregated Witness Is About to Fix Hardware Wallets

Bitcoin Corelaunched its latest software release last week, which includes a proposed SegregatedWitness soft fork. If a majority of miners signal support for the proposal,...

Bitcoin Wallet Developers Prepare for Segregated Witness

Bitcoin Core 0.13.1 was released last week, which means miner signaling on the proposed SegregatedWitness (SegWit) soft fork will start soon. If activated, SegWit offers a...

Segregated Witness Officially Introduced With Release of Bitcoin Core 0.13.1

Today marks the release of Bitcoin Coreversion 0.13.1. This is the official introduction of Segregated Witness, the long-awaited centerpiece of Bitcoin Core’s scalability road map. Starting...

An Interview With ViaBTC, the New Bitcoin Mining Pool on the Blockchain

Roughly two weeks ago, ViaBTC, a relatively new bitcoin mining pool that launched earlier this summer, garnered some attention on social media due to...

Updated: Segregated Witness Merged Into Bitcoin Core Release

Updated at 1:40pm EST:Segregated Witness has been merged into Bitcoin Core.Original article:During a Bitcoin Core development meeting on Thursday, it was decided that the...

Understanding the Lightning Network, Part 1: Building a Bidirectional Bitcoin Payment Channel

The Lightning Network is probably the most highly anticipated technological innovation to be deployed on top of Bitcoin. The payment layer, first proposed by Joseph Poon and Tadge Dryja about a year ago, promises to support a virtually unlimited number of off-chain transactions among users, at nearly no cost – while leveraging the security offered by Bitcoin.
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