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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
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.