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Replacing Bitcoin Transactions: Community Responses to Opt-In Replace-By-Fee

A new addition to Bitcoin Core called Opt-In Replace-by-Fee allows transactions to be flagged as replaceable, and actually replaced, until the transaction gets confirmed...

Bitcoin Hard Forks May Become Safer With User Voting

Up to this point, the main way to judge support for a change to Bitcoin’s consensus rules has been miner voting. Miners are able...

Who Funds Bitcoin Core Development? How the Industry Supports Bitcoin’s ‘Reference Client’

Funding Bitcoin development seems to have always been problematic.While the Bitcoin industry collectively has raised more than a billion dollars worth of investment over the...

Overstock Invests in Bitt to Launch Official Digital Currencies in the Caribbean Islands

Overstock announced a strategic investment in Bitt, a Caribbean-based fintech company whose goal is to persuade Caribbean island nations to adopt digital national currencies....

Bitcoin Lightning Network Creators: Fees Will Be Effectively Zero

Roughly two months ago, Lightning Network creators Joseph Poon and Tadge Dryja visited the Coinbase offices to explain how their design works and answer...

Bitcoin Core Launches ‘Sponsorship Programme’ to Fund Development and More

The Bitcoin Core development team launched a “Sponsorship Programme” on Monday that intends to provide an easy access point for the Bitcoin industry to support...

OpenBazaar Released: Decentralized Bitcoin Marketplace Now Live and Ready for Business

Almost two years ago, a group of Bitcoin developers, including Amir Taaki, developed an early prototype of a decentralized marketplace during the Toronto Bitcoin Expo...

Wiper Messaging App Adds Bitcoin Micropayments for Independent Filmmakers

Wiper is an encrypted mobile messenger with a built-in Bitcoin wallet that allows users to send and receive Bitcoin instantaneously, directly from the mobile...

Teambrella Wants to Revolutionize Insurance Coverage With Peer-To-Peer Bitcoin Payments

Russian software architects and entrepreneurs Alex Paperno, Eugene Porubaev and Vlad Kravchuk plan to take the insurance company out of insurance. Their Teambrella, a Bitcoin-based...

Segregated Witness Enters Final Testnet Stage, Includes Lightning Network Support

Bitcoin Core developers Dr. Pieter Wuille, Eric Lombrozo and Johnson Lau launched a fourth – and probably final – iteration of the Segregated Witness...

Brave Browser to Launch Clean Ads for a Faster Web, Powered by Bitcoin Micropayments

The creators of the modern Internet thought that it should have a built-in payment system. Web pioneer and Netscape creator Marc Andreessen, who considers Bitcoin...

The Role of Bitcoin Nodes: Do Full Nodes Running in Data Centers Benefit the Bitcoin Network?

Since its launch, Bitcoin Classic's node count has steadily increased. The latest release of the alternative Bitcoin implementation even topped the charts, with almost 3,000 Bitcoin...

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