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Aaron van Wirdum

Aaron van Wirdum
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Aaron van Wirdum is the former Editor-in-Chief of Bitcoin Magazine and author of The Genesis Book: The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin.

Russia’s Crypto-Winter Shows Signs of a Thaw in Saint Petersburg

CULTURE Aaron van Wirdum -
Having skipped Russia’s second-biggest city for the past two years, Smile-Expo re-introduced its Eastern European conference tour in Saint Petersburg last Thursday.

Bitcoin Miners Are Signaling Support for the New York Agreement: Here’s What that Means

TECHNICAL Aaron van Wirdum -
As of today, over 80 percent of miners (by hash power) are including the letters “NYA” in the blocks they mine. Here's what that means.

BIP91: The SegWit Activation “Kludge” That Should Keep Bitcoin Whole

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The SegWit2x dev team plans to implement BIP91, a proposal that cleverly makes the BIP148 UASF and SegWit2x, two conflicting activation methods, compatible.

Op Ed: Here’s Why All Rational Miners Will Activate SegWit Through BIP148

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A segment of the Bitcoin community is preparing a user activated soft fork (UASF), using Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 148 (BIP148). If they go through with it, there could be two...

Bitmain Responds to UASF With Another Bitcoin Hard Fork Announcement

TECHNICAL Aaron van Wirdum -
Bitmain today announced that it may launch a “hard fork” in response to the upcoming BIP148 user activated soft fork (UASF).

OpenTimestamps Has Timestamped the Entire Internet Archive — Here’s How

TECHNICAL Aaron van Wirdum -
For the first time in history, historical archived data cannot be altered without being noticed.

A Bitcoin Beginner’s Guide to Surviving the BIP 148 UASF (updated)

TECHNICAL Aaron van Wirdum -
This is a re-write of A Bitcoin Beginner’s Guide to Surviving a Coin-Split, specifically addressing issues associated with the upcoming BIP 148 UASF. (Update: And the BCC launch.)July 26th...

Bolivian Authorities Arrest 60 ‘Cryptocurrency Promoters’

CULTURE Aaron van Wirdum -
Update, May 30th: While the use and circulation of virtual currencies is banned in Bolivia, it is now unclear whether that's what the suspects are really charged with. Reports...

Qtum’s Block Size Limit Will Be Governed by Smart Contracts: Here’s How

BUSINESS Aaron van Wirdum -
Qtum is an up-and-coming smart contract platform set to launch in September of this year. Sometimes ambitiously referring to itself as “China’s Ethereum,” the project recently raised $15 million...

DCG’s Bitcoin Scaling Proposal and What it Needs to Succeed

TECHNICAL Aaron van Wirdum -
Spearheaded by Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group (DCG), this week over 50 companies signed and published a “Bitcoin Scaling Agreement” on Medium. The agreement intends to put an end to Bitcoin’s...
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