Bitcoin Cash is itself the product of a hard fork in Bitcoin that took place in 2017: “In mid-2017, a group of developers wanting to increase bitcoin’s block size limit prepared a code change. The ...

Recently, a private gathering under Chatham House rules gathered industry professionals in order to tackle a looming threat to Bitcoin: quantum computing. Fred Krueger, a prominent figure in the ...

A fork in the road for the cryptocurrency, the launch of Bitcoin Gold also illustrates the ongoing debate regarding how best to resolve scaling and governance issues around bitcoin, says Nir Gazit, ...

Bitcoin developers looking to expand the blockchain's decentralized finance (DeFi) capabilities are likely to be considering zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs, functionality ...

A new soft fork proposal has split the Bitcoin community in two. BIP-444 would temporarily restrict non-financial data on Bitcoin’s blockchain. Critics call it censorship, while supporters claim it’s ...

F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang criticized Bitcoin’s BIP-444 soft fork — seeking to curb arbitrary onchain data — as a “bad idea” that he will not support. Chun Wang, co-founder of major Bitcoin mining ...