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Which Majority? Bitcoin Exchange Accord Reveals Hard Fork Dilemma

A newly released statement from major exchanges today may have stoked tensions in the ongoing bitcoin scaling debate.

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'Super UASF': Could a Clever Idea Break Bitcoin's Scaling Deadlock?

An experimental 'user-activated soft fork' for pushing through a controversial bitcoin code change took another step forward this week

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Code Bug Exploit Sends Bitcoin Unlimited Nodes Offline

Bitcoin Unlimited's network of nodes took a hit today.

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Nobody Understands Bitcoin (And That's OK)

Does anyone understand bitcoin? This multifaceted technology is different things to different people, and we should accept that, argues Jameson Lopp.

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Rootstock is Fusing Lightning With On-Chain Scaling – On a Sidechain

A unique proposal aimed at scaling bitcoin’s transaction capacity via sidechains has been revealed in a new white paper.

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Roger Ver Bets Against SegWit Bitcoin Upgrade at Anarchapulco

The beach-side city of Acapulco recently played host to another round of the bitcoin scaling debate.

Roger Ver, one of the biggest advocates of bitcoin cash, said PayPal would not have supported bitcoin cash if the payment giant knew about the hard forks.

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Inside MAST: The Little-Known Plan to Advance Bitcoin Smart Contracts

Bitcoin could soon be endowed with a range of new technical improvements including greater smart-contract functionality.

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The Passion of 'Bitcoin Jesus': How The Blockchain's Most Beloved Investor Became its Most Polarizing

Roger Ver, a key figure among bitcoin’s first disciples is now the community's biggest advocate for the minority side of the block-size debate.

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Litecoin Moves to Adopt Bitcoin's SegWit Scaling Upgrade

Segregated witness, originally proposed as a workaround solution to the bitcoin scaling issue, is moving closer to rollout on the litecoin network.

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