2025-10-29 14:40 |
F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang criticized Bitcoin’s BIP-444 soft fork — seeking to curb arbitrary onchain data — as a “bad idea” that he will not support. origin »
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F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang has joined the long list of critics of the soft fork proposed by controversial developer Luke Dashjr
2025-10-28 08:21 | |
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The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) price has gone through the roof in recent days. Within the last ten days, the Bitcoin fork has risen by a staggering 168%, temporarily BCH was already up over 200% today. While Bitcoin Cash was still trading at $104 on June 20 and was stuck in a deep bull market that looked bad even compared to other altcoins, a miracle occurred 10 days ago.
2023-6-30 10:46 | |
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In earlier February, the team behind Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution Optimism received word on a critical bug that could allow a bad actor to “create ETH” on the network. The bug was part of the solution’s Geth fork and was discovered by Jay “saurik” Freeman, Head of Technology at Orchid Protocol. Related Reading | […]
2022-2-11 21:00 | |
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Welcome to Moonday Morning forkers. It’s Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines you can’t afford to miss. Take a look at what’s happened over the last few days.
2019-10-21 11:17 | |
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Everybody knows that July was a bad month for one of the world’s largest bitcoin and crypto derivates exchange BitMEX. But they are wrong. July was – evidently – the worst. New data reveals that the Seychelles-based firm experienced its most damaging net inflows in the said month.
2019-8-31 22:42 | |
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Special thanks to the Plasma Group team for review and feedback Current approaches to layer 2 scaling - basically, Plasma and state channels - are increasingly moving from theory to practice, but at the same time it is becoming easier to see the inherent challenges in treating these techniques as a fully fledged scaling solution for Ethereum.
2019-9-2 04:03 | |
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It’s time for another edition of Moonday Mornings! If you’re new around here, this is Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines that you shouldn’t miss. Let’s get to it.
2019-6-3 11:30 | |
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
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“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.
2019-4-19 04:03 | |
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Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
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There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization. ” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology.
2019-3-1 19:43 | |
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Bitcoin users may, before long, be able to benefit from a trick called “Taproot. ” First proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor and former Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell, Taproot would expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy in doing so.
2019-1-25 01:19 | |
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Whenever I claim that bitcoin is the only decentralized cryptocurrency, I get one of two arguments:My X coin is also decentralized. Bitcoin isn’t decentralized because of Core and/or miners.
2019-1-21 21:52 | |
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Constantinople is not broken, but it definitely seems to need maintainance. Yesterday the Ethereum Foundation revealed that the planned upgrade was not yet ready for the road, commencing emergency repairs on a software fork that many traders expected to turn the tide in the crypto market.
2019-1-16 19:51 | |
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It is just over a month since the Bitcoin Cash hard fork that created the Bitcoin Cash SV and Bitcoin Cash ABC implementations and there is a already a very obvious front runner in terms of support.
2018-12-20 21:45 | |
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One of Alan Sugar’s earliest apprentices and author of Tokenomics: The crypto shift of blockchains, ICOs and tokens, Thomas Power took to the seats of the Hard Fork Decentralized Exchange this afternoon to discuss his vision of our blockchain future.
2018-12-14 17:42 | |
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Roger Ver, Bitcoin. com, Bitmain, and Kraken are all sued by UnitedCorp over an alleged complot to hijack the Bitcoin Cash network for their own personal gain. United Corp. Sues Bitcoin. com, Bitmain, Kraken If the Bitcoin Cash fork fall-out that made November one of crypto’s most volatile months on record wasn’t bad enough, the nightmare continues.
2018-12-7 14:00 | |
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Bitcoin started the week on a bad note as prices slumped in the BCH hard fork aftermath. According to a new report in Bloomberg, the problems for the coin could just be getting started. The US Justice Department is reportedly looking into the coin’s 1300% rally last year that sent prices to $20,000 and investigating if the […] Regulators Investigate Last Year’s Record Highs for Bitcoin, Did Tether Prop up the Market? was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.
2018-11-21 16:29 | |
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Latest Bitcoin Cash News It’s a bloodbath out there and the last 24 hours double-digit losses did stun market participants. The bad news is that it could get worse for Bitcoin Cash holders, investors and community.
2018-11-15 17:51 | |
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Stock markets have made a significant recovery in the past week and cannabis stocks have been on a tear - attributed to the resignation of the notoriously anti-dope US Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
2018-11-10 22:00 | |
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As Bitcoin approaches its 10th anniversary, its community, old and new, has begun taking stock of how a decade has come to alter or define the cryptocurrency — and what Bitcoin has done to alter or define the decade.
2018-11-7 19:56 | |
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Bitmain, the biggest company in bitcoin mining, has filed for its IPO in Hong Kong. As part of the approval process, the company submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong stock exchange at the end of August 2018.
2018-9-28 23:08 | |
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A week ago, Bitcoin developers disclosed a glaring vulnerability in the network that could’ve led to a series of abrupt chainsplits. Well, it appears this scenario has begun to play out. The good thing is that the incident took place on a controlled testnet, not the Bitcoin mainnet.
2018-9-27 18:01 | |
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For well over a year, versions of Bitcoin Core — Bitcoin’s leading software implementation — contained a severe software bug. The bug was fixed with Bitcoin Core 0.
2018-9-22 21:22 | |
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The weekend has come and gone, and hopefully – you’re reading this fresh-faced and ready to take on the week. Unlike us fleshy humans, the blockchain never sleeps, so here are five noteworthy stories that broke over the weekend.
2018-9-17 12:58 | |
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The weekend has come and gone, and hopefully – you’re reading this fresh-faced and ready to take on the week. Unlike us fleshy humans, the blockchain never sleeps, so here are five noteworthy stories that broke over the weekend.
2018-9-17 12:58 | |
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One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”).
2018-8-28 04:03 | |
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As Controversies Surround EOS, Telos Set to Replace It “I'm a really big believer in the potential of EOS and of EOSIO software, and I came to believe that it was on a bad path.”, said Douglas Horn who recently authored a white paper for Telos, a fork of the open-source protocol behind EOS called […]
2018-8-11 01:54 | |
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Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Looks like it’s blockchain split season again. For background of various people discussing the topic, and whether such splits are good or bad: Power laws and network effects (arguing the BTC/BCC split may destroy value due to network effect loss): https://medium.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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The Build on Bitcoin (BOB) coin has experienced a remarkable surge in value, signalling one of its most significant price movements in recent months. At press time, BOB was trading at approximately $0.
The cryptocurrency market is showing signs of stability following days of heavy selling pressure. Bitcoin reclaimed the $93k level a few hours ago, adding 7% to its value in the last 24 hours. The recent positive performance comes amid renewed bets that the Federal Reserve is nearing its first rate cut of the cycle. Fed […]
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Bitcoin faces a pivotal point as price approaches the key $98,000 Fibonacci level that could confirm reversal momentum or trigger deeper corrective movement.
Onchain news site, Lookonchain reported that a big Bitcoin whale, who did a huge leveraged short, has capitulated on a huge position of around $91 million.
Bitcoin could be preparing to turn a corner after a period of seasonal weakness, according to BTIG chief technical strategist Jonathan Krinsky. The world’s largest cryptocurrency has climbed steadily in recent sessions, and analysts suggest historical patterns may support further strength into the year-end.
Bitcoin maintained a foothold above the $88,500 support region this week, staging a recovery move after forming a near-term base. The cryptocurrency climbed above $91,000, reaching a weekly peak of $91,878 before pausing and drifting lower.