What is BIP149?
It is evident that Bitcoin Core developers would like nothing more than to activate Segregated Witness on the network. Unfortunately, they are facing a lot of opposition from the …
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Top 3 Reasons Why Bitcoin’s Price is Suppressed Right Now
Bitcoin’s market has been up and down the past few days. In a previous article The Merkle covered the top 3 reasons why Bitcoin’s is currently rising. Japan’s adoption, …
Litecoin Value Soars due to SegWit Activation
The past few days have been quite exciting for the Litecoin community. After weeks of waiting to see Segregated Witness activate on the network, that has now officially happened. …
Every Major Litecoin Mining Pool now Signals SegWit
A lot of cryptocurrency enthusiasts are keeping a very close eye on the Litecoin ecosystem as we speak. After an agreement was formed after the Litecoin Roundtable Resolution, nearly …
Trezor, Microsoft & Many Bitcoin Businesses Show Support For UASF and Segwit
Trezor and many other bitcoin businesses including CoinGate, Coinomi, Abra, Bitfury, BitPay, Coinkite, Microsoft, Samourai Wallet, Vaultoro and Blockonomics have demonstrated their support for user-activated soft fork (UASF). UASF, …
Coinbase to Support Litecoin and How it Can Change Bitcoin’s Path
It has been a very exciting few weeks for the Litecoin community. The value of the crypto has skyrocketed and its recent trading volume is extremely high as well. This has …
Top 6 Litecoin Mining Pools Signaling SegWit Support
April 4, 2017
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Ever since the Litecoin developers released a new client to signal for SegWit activation, there has been a large focus on how this scenario will play out. As it …
Bitcoin Core Developer Lays Out Scalability Roadmap Based on Segregated Witness (Segwit)
With the decline of Bitcoin Unlimited, the support rate for the Bitcoin Core development team’s Segregated Witness (Segwit) is rapidly increasing in terms of hashrate and node count. To …
Philippines’ Largest Bitcoin Firm Coins.ph and Bitsquare Reject Bitcoin Unlimited
Major startups, companies, service providers, exchanges and wallet platforms within the Bitcoin industry have unanimously rejected Bitcoin Unlimited as both a hard fork solution and as a bitcoin software. …