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Sia Completes Hard Fork as Bricked Miners Form Rival Blockchain

Innosilicon's mining equipment no longer works on Sia following a planned algorithm change. But not everyone went along with the fork.

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Privacy Crypto Zcash Goes Live With 'Sapling' Network Hard Fork

The zcash protocol implemented its Sapling upgrade on Sunday in the hopes of making transactions faster and more secure.

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Ethereum's Constantinople Hard Fork Is Being Delayed Until 2019

Ethereum's next upgrade, Constantinople, has been delayed until next year.

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Sia Network Releases Hard Fork Code to Block Crypto Mining Giants

Sia has released the formal code for an imminent hard fork that will block cryptocurrency mining firms like Bitmain from its blockchain network.

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Ethereum's Constantinople Upgrade Stalls on Test Network

Constantinople, ethereum's next system-wide upgrade did not activate on the Ropsten testnet as planned on Saturday.

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Constantinople Nears: Ethereum's Next Hard Fork Is On Track for 2018

Open-source coders backing the ethereum project now say its next system-wide upgrade, Constantinople, is on track for November release.

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When Blockchains Go Down: Why Crypto Outages Are on the Rise

It used to be that downtime was unheard of on blockchain networks. As new protocols and new trade-offs emerge, that’s no longer the case.

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Leading Bitcoin Cash Developer Says Future Fork Unlikely

Cryptocurrency forks may slow down in the future, as argued by leaders of several crypto hard fork projects at the CoinDesk Consensus Singapore event.

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Ethereum's Constantinople Hard Fork to Activate on Testnet in October

Ethereum developers have confirmed an upcoming upgrade will activate on Ropsten around October 9.

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Constantinople Ahead: What You Need to Know About Ethereum's Big Upgrade

Constantinople, ethereum's next system-wide upgrade, is coming soon to a node near you. Here's what it means.

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