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IoT and Blockchain Technology Collide in the Payments Industry

The Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain-based advancements in the payments industry were among the many themes explored at TRANSACT, a tech-centric, payments industry...

Brain Wallet

The most secure and paranoid option of all is the brain wallet – storing a bitcoin address and private key entirely in your brain....

Op Ed: How the Market Is Deciding the Block Size Debate … and the Marketing Lesson for Us All

The battle over block size has consumed the Bitcoin community for a while now. At the core, the question comes down to this: Is...

Stellar’s Global Payment Platform Lightyear Launches From Stealth

Lightyear, the brainchild of Stellar co-founder and CTO Jed McCaleb along with ex-Palantir executive Brit Yonge, launched out of stealth on May 11th. Part...

Litecoin Has Now Deployed Segregated Witness

It’s official. Litecoin, one of the oldest and biggest altcoins by market cap, deployed Segregated Witness (SegWit) today. The protocol upgrade that was originally...

Op Ed: A Contentious Hard Fork Isn’t the Only Nightmare for Bitcoin

Dear Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Unlimited Supporters,A contentious hard fork isn't your only nightmare. Your nightmare is that the Bitcoin brand becomes so tarnished...

Bitcoin Core 0.14.1: SegWit Signalling and Memory Accounting

The Bitcoin Core project, launched by Satoshi Nakamoto eight years ago and today led by Wladimir van der Laan, aims to release a new...

Electrum Developer Thomas Voegtlin: Bitcoin Unlimited Is Not a Good Idea

On the most recent episode of “Epicenter,” co-hosts Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Couture interviewed Thomas Voegtlin, a developer of the bitcoin wallet Electrum....

How Bitcoin Extension Blocks Are Backward Compatible — and How They’re Not

Through a splash in the media, Purse and its in-house-built alternative Bitcoin implementation Bcoin recently presented their scaling proposal, dubbed “To the Moon.” Where...

Bitcoin.com and ViaBTC Claim SegWit Support is Overblown

The percentage of Bitcoin’s network hashrate signaling support for Bitcoin Unlimited has more than doubled from 16 percent to 35 percent over the past...

Christian Decker on Bitcoin Network Improvements, Tradeoffs and Finding the Block Size “Sweet Spot”

At the core of Bitcoin’s scaling debate has been the block size limit. For better or worse, the majority of the discussions about scaling...

Breaking Down Bitcoin’s “AsicBoost Scandal”

Through a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) draft sent to the Bitcoin development mailing list last week, long-time Bitcoin Core developer and Blockstream co-founder and...
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