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a16z’s Chris Dixon and Mike Hearn talked about all things bitcoin on the a16z Podcast a couple months ago, including an issue that has bitcoin developers on edge these days: the question of how best to scale the bitcoin blockchain before capacity runs out. Hearn and others offered a solution (Bitcoin XT) — in the parlance, a “hard fork” — and quite frankly, not everyone in the bitcoin community is in favor of this approach yet. Which we heard about from various online quarters!
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About the author of the following guest post: Ariel Horwitz is a Bitcoin activist, educator, consultant and writer for 99bitcoins.
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Will Bitcoin's growing pains splinter the currency? Rival groups are battling over how to scale Bitcoin for the future.
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It has been little over a week since Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen included Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 101 (BIP 101) into the alternative Bitcoin impleme...
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One bitcoin to rule them all—or none? The virtual currency is at a crossroads
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Bitcoin XT and Black Monday – CoinDesk takes a look at the topics that have dominated the bitcoin Twittersphere over the past week.
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Some developers have sparked a bitter debate when they released Bitcoin XT, a competing version of bitcoin that allows for larger "blocks" of data in which bitcoin transactions are processed.
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Created by two prominent developers, Bitcoin XT represents a technical and philosophical divergence.
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A lot of intriguing and conflicting things have been said about Bitcoin in the past few years. Some see it as the salvation of the financial system, others as..
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The 'Fork' is discussed here! Three bitcoin articles by Roger Ver, Cade Metz and Jeff Berwick and my comments to help you understand and think it through ...
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Two of bitcoin's best-known developers have 'forked' the software in a controversial attempt to resolve its scalability crisis.
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The bitcoin wars have begun, as Bitcoin XT squares off against the classic flavour of the cryptocurrency
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Anywhere you look, there seems to be a consensus that something has to change with the size of the Bitcoin blocks.
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