Upgrade Time: Bitcoin Cash 32MB Fork Activates Tuesday

Upgrade Time: Bitcoin Cash 32MB Fork Activates TuesdayIn less than a week on May 15, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network will be upgrading the base block size from 8MB to 32MB, as well as re-enabling and adding some OP_Codes to the codebase. With just days left there are a few things BCH holders and full node operators should know before the upgrade […]

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Bitcoin ABC Developers Address a Vulnerability Found

PR: Bitcoin-ABC Incident Report (26APR2018)On April 26, 2018, the Bitcoin ABC development team were notified of a critical issue that applies to Bitcoin Cash miners who were utilizing the Bitcoin-ABC 0.17.0 client. After analyzing the vulnerability ABC developers created a patch and distributed the new ABC client 0.17.1 and released the software to BCH mining pools.     Also read: Yahoo! […]

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Bitcoin Cash Proponents Prepare for the Largest Block Size Increase Ever

Bitcoin Cash Proponents Prepare for the Largest Block Size Increase EverIn a little more than three weeks time the Bitcoin (BCH) network will hard fork by upgrading its block size to 32MB and incorporate additional functionalities to the protocol. Currently, the entire community is steadily preparing for the consensus change as development teams release new code, while users and infrastructure providers upgrade their full node […]

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‘7 Million Transactions a Second’ — Research Paper Declares 1TB Blocks Feasible

'7 Million Transactions a Second' — Research Paper Declares 1TB Blocks FeasibleThis week a research paper was published by the founder of Lokad, a quantitative supply chain software company, and it details how terabyte blocks (TB) implemented into the bitcoin cash (BCH) blockchain could be “feasible both technically and economically.” Also Read: Thomson Reuters Adds Bitcoin Cash to Eikon Platform Research Paper Describes How Terabyte Blocks […]

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