Tag Archive: Adam Back

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  Bitcoin [Insert Name]: You Can Now Fork Your Very Own Bitcoin

  Users can now create a Bitcoin fork for less than $100 as Blockstream CEO Adam Back forecasts a “huge fork explosion” for 2018. Fork For Bitcoin Market Dominance, Suggests Back In comments on Twitter Tuesday, Back speculated on the likelihood of a plethora of Bitcoin hard forks diverting investor attention away from altcoins, potentially increasing Bitcoin’s market share. The forecast comes as Bitcoin’s hold on the market fell dramatically this week after Bitcoin Cash controversially

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  Wilma Woo · December 21, 2017 · 6:30 pm
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  Confidential Transactions Will Hit Litecoin After Bitcoin – Charlie Lee

  Charlie Lee has celebrated new technical advances that could see Bitcoin and Litecoin transactions become much more private. Lee: Fungibility ‘Only Good Money Feature Bitcoin Lacks’ Summarizing a circular to the Core mailing list by Bitcoin developer Greg Maxwell, Litecoin creator Lee said he “looked forward to adding” any improvements to Litecoin in future. The issue centers around so-called confidential transactions (CT), which would allow the amounts involved in transactions to be visible “only to

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  Wilma Woo · November 14, 2017 · 7:30 am
• Bitcoin, Bitcoin Community, Bitcoin core, News, News teaser

  Adam Back: Blockstream ‘Has No Patents Related To SegWit’

  Blockstream CEO Adam Back has refuted claims by Swedish Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge that the company “has patents in SegWit.”  Pirate Party’s Falkvinge: Blockstream SegWit Support Driven By Patents In a Twitter response Monday, Back stated Blockstream “does not have any patents, patent applications, provisional patent applications, or anything similar, related to segwit.” @DanDarkPill Blockstream does not have any patents, patent applications, provisional patent applications, or anything similar, related to segwit. — Adam Back

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  Wilma Woo · May 1, 2017 · 12:00 pm
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  Adam Back to Jihan Wu: SegWit Not ‘Complicated,’ Fixes Satoshi’s Bug

  Hashcash inventor Adam Back has said Segregated Witness (SegWit) “fixes” an original bug in Bitcoin from creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Back: SegWit ‘Fixes Satoshi Bug’ As part of a Twitter exchange Friday, Back rebuffed criticism from Bitcoin Unlimited proponent Jihan Wu, demonstrating how SegWit is beneficial to the virtual currency’s core protocol. Wu, who is a co-founder of mining conglomerate Bitmain, had said that the technology would make the network “more complicated.” “SegWit is not more

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  Wilma Woo · March 31, 2017 · 8:00 am
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  ‘Dangerous, Reckless’: DCG’s SegWit Reflections Get Tepid Response

  As the debate on segregated witness (SegWit) rolls on, Bitcoin Think editor Beautyon has hit out at critics of the technology, in particular, the Digital Currency Group (DCG). DCG A ‘Reckless Group’ In a lengthy Medium post Sunday, Beautyon stated opposition to SegWit was an example of “computer illiteracy.” He also said the DCG’s recent post titled “Scaling Bitcoin: Reflections from the DCG Portfolio” “exemplifies the problem very well” and that the group itself was

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  William Suberg · February 12, 2017 · 2:00 pm
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  HashCash Creator: Antonopoulos Explainer on SegWit ‘Best I’ve Seen’

  HashCash founder and Bitcoin pioneer Adam Back along with others have praised entrepreneur Andreas Antonopoulos for his explanation of the benefits of Segregated Witness (SegWit) technology. Back: Antonopoulos ‘Best I’ve Seen’ On SegWit Antonopoulos, known for his advocacy of the tool as a solution to Bitcoin’s blockchain capacity issue, released the explainer in a Medium post back in August. Last week on Twitter, he reiterated support for Segregated Witness for the reasons he originally highlighted. @theonevortex I'm

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  William Suberg · January 23, 2017 · 4:00 am
• Bitcoin, Bitcoin Exchange, Bitcoin Security, Bitcoin Technology, Blockchain Technology, Knowledge Base, News, Technology

  Blockstream Reveals ‘Strong Federations’ to Boost Sidechain Project

  Blockstream has released a whitepaper detailing the Strong Federations system, the foundation for the Liquid sidechain project to improve privacy, costs, speed of value transfers and settlement among exchanges and brokerages. ‘An Interoperable Blockchain Solution’ Under the leadership of Adam Back, Blockstream has released a whitepaper dubbed “Strong Federations: An Interoperable Blockchain Solution to Centralized Third Party Risks.” The whitepaper delves into the intricacies of the federated pegs system that can be used to attach sidechains to Bitcoin.

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  Antonio Madeira · January 18, 2017 · 8:30 am
• Bitcoin, Bitcoin Businesses, Start-Ups

  Adam Back Unanimously Selected to Become CEO of Blockstream

  On October 3rd, 2016, Blockstream announced that they have selected Dr. Adam Back to replace the outgoing Austin Hill as their new CEO. Also read: Bitcoin Uncensored: Block Size Showdown With Roger Ver The Selection of Adam Back to Become CEO The company’s board-of-directors voted unanimously to make Back the new CEO as Hill stepped down from the board to pursue other opportunities. Back is known to the bitcoin community as a Core developer and small

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  Trevor Hill · October 3, 2016 · 3:59 pm
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  Bitcoin Classic Drama Hits New Highs, Debate Continues

  Bitcoin Classic has been a point of controversy since its announcement. Taking on Bitcoin Core head-to-head, Classic proposes an immediate block size increase to 2 MB, with provisions for future increases. The block size debate has always been contentious, apt to erupt into name-calling and mudslinging. But now, with Core facing serious competition from Classic, this scalability issue may soon be forced to come to a head. Also read: Bitcoinist Weekly News Re-Hash: Bitcoin Classic

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  Evan Faggart · February 29, 2016 · 12:15 pm
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  F2Pool Threatens To Withdraw Consensus Support Over Adam Back Allegations

  For those people who were under the impression the Bitcoin block size debate was over, you are sadly mistaken. That being said, things are getting interesting, as F2Pool announced they will withdraw support from the February 21 roundtable consensus unless things are sorted out on the Adam Back front. There is never a dull day in the world of Bitcoin politics; that much is certain. Also read: Five Bitcoin ATM Operators Switched Over To Bitcoin

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  Jp Buntinx · February 24, 2016 · 10:32 am