Analyzing the 3 Reasons Charlie Lee Opposes Segwit2x
Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin, is against the execution of the Bitcoin SegWit2x hard fork in November due to three major areas he feels are lacking: urgent need, replay protection, and …
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What Is the Gigablock Testnet Initiative?
A lot of people are willing to explore the concept of larger Bitcoin blocks. Now that Bitcoin Cash has somewhat proven this to be a viable strategy, there is no …
Analyst: Bitcoin Price Has $4,500 in Sight, En Route to $5,000
Tuur Demeester, prominent bitcoin analyst and investor, recently stated that the bitcoin price is leading its fourth attempt to surpass the US$4,500 mark and establish a new all-time high. Unfortunately for …
What is NoB2x.org?
With the potential upcoming fork prompted by supporters of SegWit2x, Bitcoin users are somewhat concerned about what the future holds. Although it seems unlikely this solution will cause any major …
Is There a Valid Reason to Go Ahead With SegWit2x?
There are many different opinions about the activation of SegWit2x. As most people are well aware by now, on August 8 the Bitcoin network successfully locked in the activation of …
Ethereum Developers Are Building a Sharding Solution Using Python
A few months ago, we touched upon the concept of sharding as part of the Ethereum ecosystem. This particular concept will be introducing some major changes to Ethereum as …
What Is BIP91 and Why Does It Matter?
With the Bitcoin scaling deadline drawing closer, people are getting anxious regarding what the future may hold. SegWit2x and the user-activated soft fork are not mutually exclusive; it appears …
What is Horizontal Scalability?
There are many different ways to make cryptocurrecy scale. The bigger question is which of these solutions will be the “best” option in the long run. One possible solution …
Bitcoin Miners are Rejecting Segwit For Non-Technical Reasons
It has become evident that miners are not opposed to the Bitcoin Core development team’s transaction malleability fix Segregated Witness (Segwit) given the overwhelming support towards Segwit2x, a proposal …