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Bitcoin Wallet Developer Andreas Schildbach: I Will Not Invest My Time in Lightning Networks

Rather than relying on additional layers built on top of the blockchain, developer Andreas Schildbach believes the network should be designed to scale “on-chain”, too.

Segregated Witness, Part 3: How a Soft Fork Might Establish a Block-Size Truce (or Not)

The first and second parts of our three-part Segregated Witness series covered how it works and what it does. In this final part we explore what it means for the block-size dispute.

Jeff Garzik and Gavin Andresen: Bitcoin is Being Hot-Wired for Settlement

Editor's Note: This piece was originally published on Medium by Co-Founder of Bloq Inc. & Bitcoin Core Developer Jeff Garzik and Chief Scientist of...

Segregated Witness: The Right Answer to the Wrong Question

Segregated Witness, the proposal put forth by Blockstream developer Dr. Pieter Wuille, has been trumpeted as a block size scaling solution that gets...

Segregated Witness, Part 2: Why You Should Care About a Nitty-Gritty Technical Trick

The first part of our three-part Segregated Witness series covered how it works. In this second part: What it does.

Is Bitcoin Headed for a Break in Fungibility?

Fungibility is often held as a crucial characteristic of sound money. But what happens when money has a public record of every transaction,...

Segregated Witness, Part 1: How a Clever Hack Could Significantly Increase Bitcoin’s Potential

In this first part of Bitcoin Magazine’s three-part series on Segregated Witness: how it works.

AirBitz Partners with Fold, Allows Users to Buy Gift Cards inside Wallet

Airbitz, a mobile wallet that includes a location-based directory of companies that accept bitcoin, has officially announced a partnership with Fold, which will allow...

SWIFT to Launch Global Payments Innovation Initiative, Develop Blockchain Roadmap

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) announced that it is looking at the blockchain technology that powers Bitcoin as part of new...

Ciphrex’s Eric Lombrozo: There Is No ‘December Deadline’

The long-lasting block-size dispute seems to be inching toward a climax. A large segment of Bitcoin's academic and engineering community has been discussing the...

Gavin Andresen Explains Why He Prefers BIP 101 Over BIP 100

There have been a few proposals to increase the maximumblocksize in Bitcoin over the past year, but the two plans that are garnering the...

The Rediscovery of Bitcoin’s Blockchain: The World’s Most Powerful Anchor

Blockchains are set to go mainstream. As opposed to bitcoin – the currency – the underlying blockchain technology is embraced by prominent companies,...

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