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For the past two years, the main topic of conversation in the Bitcoin community has been the scalability debate. While the peer-to-peer digital currency system processes more than 300,000 on-blockchain transactions per day and recently reached an $1...

An issue that came to my attention recently was the idea of bringing Segregated Witness to Litecoin on January 28, as a sort of "trial period" for later Bitcoin deployment. This puts us in a bind, because while we don't want to cause unnecessary trouble...

Bitcoin is heading into a wholly avoidable crisis, according to one camp of developers. It is being forced to evolve, according to the other. How it’s all happening is as much at issue as whether it will all work out. Perhaps you’ve heard that Bitcoin...

Referred to as the Satoshi client, Bitcoin QT, Bitcoin Core , or simply Bitcoin’s reference client, the original Bitcoin implementation as introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto has always set the standard for Bitcoin’s consensus rules. While alternative implementations...

This weekend Mike Hearn announced the release of a version of his BitcoinXT client which would hard fork a new altcoin referred to here as XTCoin from the Bitcoin network. Should enough blocks be mined which profess to contain a vote to trigger Hearn...