Bitcoin Public Full Node Count Surpasses 10,000
New data released by Coin Dance this week shows that the number of bitcoin public nodes made a significant jump. The reported 10,094 public nodes places the total number back over...
Bitcoin UASF Showed Users Are In Control via ‘Market...
More than a year later after Bitcoin UASF, Blockstream CEO and inventor of Bitcoin’s proof-of-work technology, Adam Back, recalled the event as ‘an emphatic’ victory’ for...
Streisand Effect? Bitcoin Node Count Surged After Hard Fork
The total number of Bitcoin Core nodes currently stands at 9,499, marking an impressive surge since the Bitcoin Cash hard-fork that occurred on August 1st of last year. Bitcoin Node...
Q: When is a Bitcoin not a Bitcoin? A: When it’s Cash!
Less than a week ago BIP91 became locked-in and we all cheered. The risk of a major split in our beloved Bitcoin had passed. We could all get back to sipping our fine wine and HODLing...
ViaBTC Begins Trading Bitcoin Cash (BCC) for Chinese Yuan (CNY) in...
Mining pool and Bitcoin exchange ViaBTC has begun trading the “Bitcoin Cash” (BCC) token for CNY in anticipation of a Bitcoin ABC hard fork on August 1. Like a bad divorce, some...
BIP91 Locks In – Renewed Optimism Rockets Bitcoin to Over $2900
After months of disagreement and internal debate, the Bitcoin Network will finally implement a scaling solution; BIP91 has just locked in, meaning that the activation of SegWit will be...
Bitcoin Price Drops Below $2000, First Time Since May
A massive sell off of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has resulted in the total market cap of the cryptocurrency market dropping to below $66 billion. The decrease marks a 43%...
GDAX to Suspend Bitcoin Transactions if UASF Activates
In a blog post on July 13, GDAX announced it will temporarily suspend Bitcoin transactions if a soft fork is activated on August 1. Tension is ratcheting up as the August 1 deadline...
Luke-jr Warns: ‘One Purpose’ Of SegWit2x To ‘Stall...
Bitcoin Core developer Luke-jr has released a damning appraisal of SegWit2x as the scaling tool launches in beta. Luke-jr Warns of SegWit2x ‘Distraction’ In a blog post...
Growing Support for Segwit2x Amid BIP 148 UASF Concerns
The New York Agreement, also known as Segwit2x, is finally being signaled by the boasted 80+% of the hash power that has agreed to it. This compromise will hopefully bring an end to...
‘Chicken Game’: Reality Comes Home To Roost For UASF...
As SegWit2x gains over 80% hash rate support, a developer has pronounced the Bitcoin user-activated soft fork (UASF) “dead.” Silbert Agreement Sucked Support From UASF In a Medium...
UASF Continues to Gain Support as ‘Secret’ SegWit2x...
Though a Bitcoin scaling agreement was reached at the recent Consensus conference in New York, many companies are increasingly supporting a User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF) as a...