The proposal is written under the assumption that the signatories to the Consensus 2017 Scaling Agreement are genuinely committed to the terms of the agreement and intend to enact the updates described therein.
The plaintiff has charged Coinbase for making false and deceptive statements on the rollout of Bitcoin Cash last year after the Bitcoin hard fork.
It has been announced that now it will be possible to bring significant changes to Bitcoin without a necessity to perform a hard fork.
Roger Ver, the CEO of Bitcoin.com and a prominent figure in the crypto space, believes that the institutional investors should invest in Bitcoin Cash, as this currency has fundamentals which are no longer present in Bitcoin.
The mainnet release of the Lightning Network software is deemed as one of the most thoroughly tested versions of the Lightning Network technology.
A new scheme for solving Bitcoin scalability issue has been designed by Conner Fromknecht and Olaoluwa Osuntokun. Atomic Multi-Path Payments over Lightning promises to enhance privacy and decentralization to facilitate Bitcoin payments.
On January 24, Bitcoin’s new hard fork named Bitcoin Atom (BCA) took place at block number 505888.
Bitcoin Atom hard fork will bring several new features to the dais, including atomic and lightning swaps, hybrid consensus model and much more.
Bitcoin scalability gets a push as Lightning Network, a promising solution which debuted on the Bitcoin mainnet, gains momentum.
The heart of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies is decentralization. But are cryptocurrencies really decentralized now, or there is a hidden hand ordering around?
Lightning Bitcoin is the first hard-forked coin that works on DPOS consensus mechanism in order to make Bitcoin transfers lightning-fast.