2019-8-12 14:00 |
After a recent network upgrade, nodes separated from the bitcoin SV blockchain, highlighting why hard forks prompt much infighting among devs.
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2019-8-12 14:00 |
After a recent network upgrade, nodes separated from the bitcoin SV blockchain, highlighting why hard forks prompt much infighting among devs.
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Fledging blockchain Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) is ready for a “hard fork” upgrade to increase the size limit of its blocks from 128MB to 2GB — but there’s confusion over when it’s actually supposed to occur.
2019-7-24 17:51 | |
Two Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) have been approved to be included during Ethereum’s next majorupgrade scheduled for October, CoinDesk reports. The two nodes are the first to be officially endorsed among the 28 EIPs that have been submitted for review and inclusion in Ethereum’s next system-wide upgrade or hard fork which has been dubbed, Istanbul. […]
2019-6-21 22:18 | |
“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.
2019-6-3 17:43 | |
A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-6-4 23:41 | |
A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-5-31 23:41 | |
Developer Luke Dashjr believes that smaller block size is better in the short term. Dashjr believes that an extension block could be a good alternative for a hard fork, considering the effort that goes into both is equal.
2019-5-25 05:25 | |
Bitcoin Cash underwent a hard fork to upgrade network security and add a few key features, as reported by BTCManger on 15 May, 2019. The hard fork went as per plan but a bug on Bitcoin ABC’s client rendered the chain non-functional for a few hours.
2019-5-16 13:30 | |
The total number of Bitcoin nodes has exceeded 100,000 and not 10,000 nodes, as popularly believed. The confusion over how many nodes are actually in the Bitcoin network is due to incorrect reporting by mainstream cryptocurrency data platforms, as well as a misunderstanding between listening nodes and full nodes.
2019-5-6 17:00 | |
On May 5, the Bitcoin network briefly boasted over 100,000 ‘full nodes,’ but most are still running out-of-date versions of the software. PSA: a lot of people believe there are about 10,000 Bitcoin nodes.
2019-5-6 15:01 | |
Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. The Bitcoin network is often touted as one of the most revolutionary forms of decentralized technology the world has ever seen.
2019-3-1 15:55 | |
Whilst debate raged throughout the Bitcoin community over whether the block size limit should be increased and how, Luke-jr for years stood out for arguing the exact opposite position.
2019-2-15 19:18 | |
Ethereum will migrate it’s blockchain from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake in a hard forking event dubbed as Constantinople by January 16. But only 16% of its nodes are ready for the upgrade so far.
2019-1-15 18:55 | |
We are less than two days before of the much-anticipated Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum blockchain and uncertainty has sparked as only 20% of all nodes have already upgraded to the new version.
2019-1-15 15:29 | |
Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.
2018-12-5 23:23 | |
Blockchain-based social media platform Steemit Inc. , the company behind popular open source website Steemit. com, has announced a structural reorganization which will entail laying off 70 percent of its workforce as it looks for new ways to cut costs and remain sustainable as a business.
2018-11-29 22:53 | |
After a bearish year of perennial price swings that culminated in months of tightly wound sideways movement, the (former) bottom has dropped out for bitcoin and the wider crypto market.
2018-11-28 21:44 | |
New data released by Coin Dance this week shows that the number of bitcoin public nodes made a significant jump. The reported 10,094 public nodes places the total number back over 10,000 for the first time since March.
2018-11-20 20:00 | |
Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different coins: “Bitcoin Cash ABC” (BCH ABC) and “Bitcoin Cash SV” (BCH SV).
2018-11-17 02:13 | |
On November 15, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard fork activated. At press time, Bitcoin ABC is leading Bitcoin SV in terms of both hash rate and number of nodes, according to Coin.Dance. Under the new consensus rules, 136 blocks have been already mined, wherein Bitcoin ABC is 45 blocks ahead. The news about the protocol […]
2018-11-16 11:59 | |
There are still a lot of unknown factors associated with the upcoming Bitcoin Cash hard fork. While miners clearly favor Bitcoin SV at this time, things may look a bit different where everything else is concerned.
2018-11-15 19:53 | |
What Is Ethereum Classic? Ethereum Classic ETC is an Ethereum hard fork created to preserve the original Ethereum coding after The Decentralized Autonomous Organization (The DAO, an Ethereum-based project) was hacked.
2018-11-9 17:19 | |
ForkMonitor. info, a website that tracks forks of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash launched with sponsorship from BitMEX Research. The website is connected to several nodes on both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash implementations, providing a wide array of information about the forks in the blockchains.
2018-11-6 17:59 | |
BitMEX just launched a website to make it easier to keep tabs on hard and soft forks on the Bitcoin blockchain. According to a recent blog post, the research arm of BitMEX is sponsoring a new website, ForkMonitor.
2018-11-6 23:18 | |
On October 30, 2018, Storj Labs released a public alpha for their version 3 (V3) platform –– enabling developers and companies to test their decentralized cloud storage solution.
2018-10-31 17:07 | |
This rather long meme, which has been circulating lately, makes fun of the views of Bitcoin supporters by listing commonly made statements and contrasting them with contradicting statements or developments.
2018-10-4 22:27 | |
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-10-2 17:27 | |
A week ago, Bitcoin developers disclosed a glaring vulnerability in the network that could’ve led to a series of abrupt chainsplits. Well, it appears this scenario has begun to play out. The good thing is that the incident took place on a controlled testnet, not the Bitcoin mainnet.
2018-9-27 18:01 | |
Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape.
2018-9-26 02:13 | |
On the most recent episode of Let’s Talk Bitcoin!, the hosts discuss the now-defunct Bitcoin Alert system, devised by Satoshi himself. A rarity in the podcast space, this episode’s exploration involved no guest appearances, instead relying on the wealth of experience that Adam B.
2018-9-22 22:58 | |
For well over a year, versions of Bitcoin Core — Bitcoin’s leading software implementation — contained a severe software bug. The bug was fixed with Bitcoin Core 0.
2018-9-22 21:22 | |
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-15 20:21 | |
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-7 00:27 | |
What follows is an open letter from Jimmy Zhong, co-founder and CEO of IOST, to his team members and shared with Bitcoin Magazine with permission. Recently, I’ve been thinking about an ultimate way of safely storing value — gold, Bitcoin, real estate and power all came to mind.
2018-8-23 22:20 | |
Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name.
2018-7-13 17:16 | |
Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away.
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
Today, after almost 6 years of hard work, Ripple is very pleased to announce the release of rippled version 1. 0. 0. The rippled v1. 0. 0 release includes incremental improvements to several previously released features.
2018-6-17 22:45 | |