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Segregated Witness, Part 1: How a Clever Hack Could Significantly Increase Bitcoin’s Potential

In this first part of Bitcoin Magazine’s three-part series on Segregated Witness: how it works.

BTCC COO Samson Mow: Without Consensus on Block-size Limit, Stakeholders Might Implement an Increase

BTCC Chief Operating Officer Samson Mow indicated that the leading Chinese mining pool and exchange supports an incremental increase of Bitcoin's block-size limit to...

The Rediscovery of Bitcoin’s Blockchain: The World’s Most Powerful Anchor

Blockchains are set to go mainstream. As opposed to bitcoin – the currency – the underlying blockchain technology is embraced by prominent companies,...

GreenAddress: Increasing Bitcoin’s Block-size Limit is not Scaling; it’s Pivoting

Bitcoin wallet provider GreenAddress was always critical of raising Bitcoin's block-size limit. As one of the first in the space in May of this...

Goldman Sachs Files Patent Application For Securities Settlement Using Cryptocurrencies

On November 19, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) published Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s patent application20150332395 or “Cryptographic Currency For Securities Settlement.”...

Slush Pool to Re-Enable BIP 101 Bitcoin Mining

Slush Pool, a Czech-based Bitcoin mining pool accounting for 6 percent of hashing power on the Bitcoin network, indicates it will re-enable connected miners...

How the Magic of IBLTs Could Boost Bitcoin’s Decentralization

Bitcoin requires decentralization of miners (or mining pools) and full nodes to achieve what some consider its core property: censorship resistance. As such,...

Law Enforcement and Regulators Agree: Bitcoin Not Useful for Terrorists, Thoughtful Regulation and Education Needed

In the aftermath of the Paris attack on November 13, the European Union (EU) is looking to crack down on bitcoin with the...

How a Bitcoin Backbone Gives Small Miners a Leg Up: Matt Corrallo’s Relay Network

Corallo's relay network serves two distinct purposes. First, it adds diversity to Bitcoin. Rather than just needing to rely on the peer-to-peer network, Bitcoin users can opt to receive transaction data and blocks through an alternative channel. This makes it harder to successfully attack the Bitcoin network; the relay network functions as a fallback. But the second, and more important reason, is a potential decrease of network latency.

Align Commerce Raises $12.5 Million, Launches Blockchain-based Cross-border B2B Payment System

In April, Bitcoin Magazinereported that global payment provider Align Commerce launched a public beta of its payments platform, the first in the industry to...
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