Sparks Fly as Old Core Developer Says Ethereum Could Help Bitcoin Scale
Bitcoin has seen a number of scaling improvements over recent years. For instance, Segregated Witness (SegWit) has seen mass adoption by cryptocurrency users and service providers...
World Bank, Commonwealth Bank Team up on Blockchain Sustainable Development Project
The World Bank has chosen the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to help organize a new Ethereum blockchain bond denominated in Australian dollars. The bond is projected to raise between...
Bitcoin Core Sponsorship Programme Aims To Foster Ecosystem Development
The Bitcoin Core Sponsorship Programme has recently been announced, which is dedicated of foster innovation in the world of Bitcoin and digital currencies. There is a lot of research...
Developers Announce the Very First Ethereum ATM
During the last couple of months, Ethereum has been quickly gaining pace, and is situated on the road to success, especially considering the fact that the world’s first Ethereum ATM...
Popcorntime Now Accepting In-App Bitcoin Donations
February 19, 2016 — Popcorntime Community Edition, The most recent of Popcorntime’s open-source reincarnations, is up in full force, and the developers are accepting bitcoin...
Bitcoin In-Fighting Doesn’t Matter: Gavin Andresen Weighs in
January 30, 2016 – Gavin Andresen, former head Bitcoin Core maintainer, posted a short treatise on the issue of consensus infighting among the Bitcoin implementations on the Svbtle...
AMD Launches GPUOpen: Potentially Huge Boon for Cryptocurrency
January 28, 2016 — This Tuesday, AMD launched GPUopen, a suite of MIT-licensed development tools for graphics and GPGPU applications. GPGPU is integral to making mining hardware...
F2Pool Statement Indicates Plan To Hard Fork 2MB Bitcoin Block Size
The Bitcoin block size debate has taken another interesting plot twist in the past few hours. F2Pool, one of the largest Chinese Bitcoin mining pools in the world, has announced they...
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...
Miami Bitcoin Hackathon Offers Huge Prizes
Florida has become going a Mecca for Bitcoin in the last few weeks. The world’s first Bitcoin Bowl was held in St. Petersburg; the Atlantic Coast Conference faced-off against the...