2018 To Be the Year of SegWit
The year started with good news about Bitcoin’s urgently needed optimizations. Indeed, key entities of the cryptocurrency ecosystem began the ...
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BTCPay is a Better (and Cheaper) BitPay, Says Core Developer Nicolas Dorier
Bitcoinist spoke with Bitcoin Core developer Nicolas Dorier who explains why BTCPay is not only a cheaper alternative to BitPay ...
BitPay Backpedals on Payment Limits
Online Bitcoin payments provider BitPay announced last week that the minimum accepted payment would be $100. This was in response ...
Coinbase Announces 2018 SegWit Support As Third ‘Engineering Priority’
Largest US cryptocurrency wallet and exchange Coinbase has confirmed it "plans" to support SegWit transactions in 2018. SegWit Follows Security, ...
WikiLeaks Now Supports Bitcoin SegWit Addresses for Donations
WikiLeaks has long relied upon donations in order to keep exposing government and corporate secrets and corruption. Now another avenue ...
SegWit, Tony? BitPay CEO’s Fee Estimates ’20x Too High’
BitPay CEO Tony Gallippi has received widespread condemnation after complaining non-SegWit Bitcoin fees were too high. Newbery: Customers Should Vote ...
How Bitcoin Fees Work and Why They’ve Been So High
Fees have been extraordinarily high this past week, and this article aims to clear up misconceptions and help users make smarter ...
Segwit Activated: How it Works & What’s Next for Bitcoin
Segregated Witness, or Segwit, has finally been activated by a super majority of the current hashpower on the Bitcoin network. ...
