Bitcoin Cash Celebrates Its First Birthday: From a Hard Fork to Easy Going
Bitcoin Cash turns one — a look at the altcoin’s journey after its controversial fork from the Bitcoin blockchain in 2017 Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
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Bitcoin Cash turns one — a look at the altcoin’s journey after its controversial fork from the Bitcoin blockchain in 2017 Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and in a blockchain that link lies in the form of its founders. Getting nodes to achieve consensus is easy compared to the difficulty of getting humans to achieve consensus. The greatest challenge that new blockchains must solve isn’t speed or scaling – it’s governance. … Read more
Just recently the Bitcoin ABC development team has published the Bitcoin Cash ‘November 15 Upgrade Timeline’ which details what the programmers plan to do before the hard fork. As the upgrade approaches the ABC development team wants to ensure a smooth hard fork by making sure every full node participant and miner is ready with … Read more
There has been a growing influx of hard forks and airdrops pertaining to Bitcoin, although Bitcoin is still Bitcoin and remains the world’s leading cryptocurrency. In fact, there are so many different iterations of Bitcoin, it is impossible to keep track of them all. Most people will have never heard of most of them, nor … Read more
Tezos, a blockchain best known for its off-chain drama rather than its on-chain utility, is set to fork. Internecine conflict has riven the Tezos community for months, spilling over into the courtroom and leading to the dismissal of foundation members. On the eve of its mainnet launch, another twist will see nTezos created as a … Read more
Anonymity-focused altcoin Verge gets hacked, again, with around $1.4 mln in XVG stolen Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
In the world of Bitcoin, there have been numerous hard forks over the past few months. Not all of those forks have been successful, which is only to be expected. It now seems there will be another fork that users should be aware of, which goes by the name of BitcoinZap. Not too much information … Read more
Casper is about to take off: What will a new update bring to us? Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
The Bitcoin Cash network has officially upgraded the blockchain protocol at approximately 1:54 EDT by extending the current block size fourfold from 8MB to 32MB. The consensus change is one of the largest block size increases in blockchain history, and the upgrade also adds the great knowledge of understanding Satoshi’s OP_Codes – which could add the … Read more
On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto had a vision to share with the world — a protocol he called “bitcoin, a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.” Since that time a whole lot has changed, and there is a vast cryptocurrency landscape with over 1,500 virtual currencies listed on data … Read more