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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong: BIP 101 is the Best Proposal We’ve Seen So Far

Brian Armstrong, CEO of record-funded Bitcoin wallet service and exchange Coinbase, plans a code update to allow for bigger blocks in the second week...

Bitnet Willing to Adopt Alternative Block Increase Proposals, Too

Bitcoin payment processor Bitnet has indicated it is willing to implement block-increase proposals other than BIP (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal) 101. This makes Bitnet the...

BitPay CEO Stephen Pair: We’re Open to Alternative Block-size Proposals

BitPay, one of the top funded companies and most-used payment processor in the Bitcoin industry, is open to alternative block-size proposals – not just...

Bitcoin Blocksize Debate to Continue at DevCore with Garzik, Andresen, Antonopoulos and others

Bitcoin luminaries Gavin Andresen, Andreas Antonopoulos, Matt Corallo, Jeff Garzik, Charlie Lee, Greg Maxwell, and Michael Perklin are among the speakers appearing at this...

Debunking the 11 Most Stubborn Lightning Network Myths

Earlier this year, Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja released the Lightning Network white paper. In it they theorize how a layer on top of...

Blockstream to Launch First, Instant-Settlement Sidechain for Bitcoin Exchanges

Blockstream has announced it will launch its first commercial Bitcoin sidechain by early 2016. The sidechain, codenamed “Liquid,” offers instant transactions, providing a fast...

Should Bitcoin Have Regularly Scheduled Hard Forks?

Hard forks are a rather contentious issue in Bitcoin. The controversy surrounding hard forks can be seen most prominently in the context of Bitcoin...

Bitcoin Used to Pay Utility and Credit Card Bills in the Philippines and Australia

Over the past year, bitcoin startups in the Philippines and Australia have begun to target day-to-day expenses and remittances; markets that are in desperate...

Transaction Remote Release, a Tor-Inspired Proposed Change to Bitcoin Protocol for Anonymous Transactions

It’s well known that bitcoin transactions are not anonymous. Every transaction and the full transaction history of any bitcoin address are permanently recorded in...

BitGo Processes Over $1 Billion in Bitcoin Transactions in Third Quarter

Leading bitcoin security platform and multi-signature / P2SH (pay-to-script hash) bitcoin wallet provider BitGo has transacted more than $1 billion worth of bitcoin transactions...

Notable Bitcoin Core Contributors Now Open to Increasing Block-size Limit to 2 or 4MB

Although some individuals in the Bitcoin community believed that nothing would come out of the recent Scaling Bitcoin workshop in Montreal, it seems that...

Coinkite Processes $250 Million in Third Quarter; 10% of Total Daily Bitcoin Transactions

Leading bitcoin platform, multi-sig vault service provider and bitcoin merchant payment processor Coinkite has powered more than USD$250 million over the past three months,...

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