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Segregated Witness Enters Final Testnet Stage, Includes Lightning Network Support

Bitcoin Core developers Dr. Pieter Wuille, Eric Lombrozo and Johnson Lau launched a fourth – and probably final – iteration of the Segregated Witness...

Brave Browser to Launch Clean Ads for a Faster Web, Powered by Bitcoin Micropayments

The creators of the modern Internet thought that it should have a built-in payment system. Web pioneer and Netscape creator Marc Andreessen, who considers Bitcoin...

The Role of Bitcoin Nodes: Do Full Nodes Running in Data Centers Benefit the Bitcoin Network?

Since its launch, Bitcoin Classic's node count has steadily increased. The latest release of the alternative Bitcoin implementation even topped the charts, with almost 3,000 Bitcoin...

Africa’s Largest Online Marketplace Bidorbuy Adds Bitcoin Payments

To eliminate the financial security issues a lot of African e-commerce users have suffered from, Bidorbuy, Africa’s largest online market, began accepting Bitcoin payments...

Are Startups Better Off Hiding the Fact They’re Using Bitcoin?

One of the main issues that has held back the adoption of Bitcoin as a network for value transfer on the Internet is that...

Rootstock Raises $1M to Enable Smart Contracts on the Bitcoin Blockchain

Although smart contract projects on alternative blockchains such as Ethereum are gaining a lot of attention, smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain itself are challenging...

Bitcoin RBF, Bitcoin Knots and Bitcoin Addrindex: Three Core Forks That Don’t Break With Consensus

Bitcoin Core, descendant of the original Bitcoin software launched by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, has always been Bitcoin's reference client. The implementation, formerly known...

BTCC’s Samson Mow on Block Size: The Bitcoin Community Must See Through Manipulation, Keep Calm and Write Code

Samson Mow is the Chief Operating Officer of Chinese Bitcoin exchange, wallet service and mining pool BTCC. A successful executive in the video game industry,...

The Case for Replace-By-Fee (And the Case Against)

The heated debate in the Bitcoin community throughout the past months not only concerns the block size dispute. Another technical change at the center...

Four Key Disagreements Between Bitcoin Classic and Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd was recently interviewed on episode 34 of The Bitcoin Game, and the longtime Bitcoin developer and researcher was able to explain some of the...

Electrum Launches Mobile Wallet for Android, iOS Coming

Electrum, Bitcoin's popular lightweight wallet, launched a new version of its software this week. Apart from a desktop client, Electrum 2.6 is now available on...

Bitcoin Classic Hard Fork Likely to Activate at 71% Hashrate Support

Bitcoin Classic, an attempt to implement an alternative version of the Bitcoin protocol with a higher block size limit, has been one of the...

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