5 Unmissable Highlights From Consensus: Distributed 2020
Consensus: Distributed, CoinDesk’s virtual version of their annual crypto conference, is done and dusted, but the best bits have just been made available to a housebound audience...
Why Has Ethereum Mining Algorithm Approval Caused Community Uproar
The Ethereum community has been locked in battle this week over a controversial change to its mining algorithm called ProgPoW. If implemented it could cause a highly contentious hard...
Crypto Conference Industry Remains in Bull Market, New Data Shows
More often than not, the first thing to be cut out of the budget is marketing. When the going gets tough and the coffers start emptying, the first head on the chopping block is usually...
No Fiat Accepted: HTC’s New ‘Blockchain Phone’ Buyable Only for Bitcoin or...
The HTC Exodus 1 phone, introduced at the Consensus conference in May, is now available for pre-order on early access. Primarily aimed at the development community, the scheme only...
Step on the Consensus Side
Side-events of big conferences gradually conquer more attention than the main events. There is a number of reasons why this happens, but let’s take a closer look at the mechanics...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: Bitcoin Should Be Native Currency of the Internet
On Wednesday, Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter and the Square payment company expressed his positive cryptocurrency sentiment as he stood on stage at the Consensus conference, saying...
Swirlds Addresses Blockchain Limitations With Hashgraph
Swirlds is a startup claiming to solve the limitations of blockchain technology, while harnessing the power of the cloud without servers. Ping Identity has announced their seed...
Bitcoinist Podcast Brings New Insight into Industry
Bitcoinist.net is proud to announce the release of the second episode of the official Bitcoinist Podcast and the future plans for the series. The podcast focuses on things like...
Bitcoin Miners Have Lost Interest In Block Size Debate
Just because mining pools give individual miners the ability to choose Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin classic, does not mean they will be switching over in droves all of a sudden. That...
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...
Bitcoin Core Releases Statement on Hard vs Soft Forks
Bitcoin Core, an “open source software project that is a direct descendant of the original Bitcoin implementation”, released a statement late last week on its website. The main...
31 Bitcoin Contributors Sign Block Size Proposal By Gregory Maxwell
The Bitcoin block size debate is still far from over, as a new capacity increases page with initial signatures has been posted on GitHub very recently. Quite a few prominent names in...