hard-forks


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Parity Urges 'Rescue' Fork to Reclaim Frozen Millions

Parity Technologies has just released a proposal for reclaiming the millions in ether frozen last month due to a fault in its code.

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How Forks Might Help Bitcoin Reach Its True Destination

Forks offer ideological leaders the chance to put their ideas on improving protocols into practice without getting bogged down in endless bickering.

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More Devs, More Destruction: Another Zcash Crypto Ceremony Is Underway

Amid criticism of its first security ceremony, zcash has made changes as it prepares for a fork. But has it done enough to silence the skeptics?

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A Crypto Crystal Ball? What If Traders Settled Bitcoin Forks

Researchers are trying to improve prediction markets as potentially valuable tools for measuring community support or opposition to protocol changes.

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What's Next for Bitcoin Cash? Stopping User Fund Loss

Bitcoin cash may be vying for the top spot in bitcoin software, but it's still working to correct fundamental usability problems.

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No Fork, No Fire: Segwit2x Nodes Stall Running Abandoned Bitcoin Code

The Segwit2x bitcoin fork may have been formally called off, but as many as 150 nodes still running its code have stopped accepting transaction blocks

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You Want Democracy? Try a Hard Fork

The mere option of forking not only empowers cryptocurrency users when they leave a project, but also when they stay, writes Taylor Pearson.

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'Plenty of Time': Parity Rep Says Startup Won't Push for Emergency Fork

Communications lead at Parity said the team will not push for an emergency hard fork to recover some $150 million in locked-up ether funds.

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Make Big Money on Bitcoin Cash? The IRS Might Be Watching

Hard forks of bitcoin are creating new wealth that the U.S. tax agency will want to tax, but it's still unclear just how to report these new assets.

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