soft fork

Foundry Digital said it will allow clients who use its Bitcoin mining pool to vote on BIP-110.

Bitcoin’s real power is that anyone willing to pay fees can write to the ledger. BIP-110’s backers want to change that for data-heavy transactions. The backlash reveals what’s truly at stake.

Shinobi argued that the surge of institutional bitcoin adoption will lead to premature ossification of the Bitcoin protocol. While I share this concern to an extent, I am less convinced this is necessarily true.

A technical and in-depth analysis of the trade-offs that Ethereum’s consensus mechanism makes in its switch to proof-of-stake and how proof-of-work differs.

Softchains are a sidechain implementation that interact on a deeper level with consensus mechanisms, which can bring benefits and risks.

Bitcoin is defined by its users, but how many node operators understand and verify protocol changes on a nuanced and deeply technical level?

A panel held at Bitcoin 2022 set out to explore the benefits and tradeoffs of activating a Bitcoin soft fork.

Bitcoin Core developers are considering “burying” the Taproot soft fork, to help developers when reviewing the code, but it could have unintended consequences.

CheckTemplateVerify (CTV) is meant to enable more flexibility on the network, but its potential activation is a topic of debate among developers.

Taproot and Schnorr signatures are going live at block 709,632. Here’s what you need to know about what this means for Bitcoin.