Covert attack on Bitcoin drives block size debate stagnation
On Wednesday afternoon, Bitcoin Core developer Greg Maxwell submitted a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP), inhibiting a “covert attack on the Bitcoin POW function.” Maxwell discovered patent pending technology being used in an ASIC Bitcoin mining chip, which gives certain Bitcoin miners 20 to 30 percent more mining power.
Alternative means of settling with bitcoin
Bitcoin has recently experienced another "stress test," in form of a lot of transaction spam. Along with the continuous debate on whether or not to increase the Bitcoin block size, a lot of people have started looking at the potential outcomes of the situation.
Blockstream is going from strength to strength
Just six days after [Blockstream](https://blockstream.com) [announced](https://blockstream.com/2016/01/28/pwc-and-blockstream-announce-strategic-partnership) a strategic partnership with PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), an even larger [announcement](https://blockstream.com/2016/02/02/blockstream-new-investors-55-million-series-a/) from the bitcoin software development company has been announced.
Mike Hearn calls Bitcoin’s block size debate a ‘civil war’
The Bitcoin block size debate, a technical dispute over an intrinsic aspect of the network, has been taken entirely too far for at least one core developer. Mike Hearn has lost faith in the system, and sold all of his coins.
The Blockchain Scalability Survey
Bitcoin's Scalability has been an industry debate for, arguably, years. Brave New Coin (BNC) has reached out to those with vested interests, and working in this industry, for their perspective.
Bitcoins Coming Scalability Upgrades
Bitcoin is a possible replacement for global financial systems, but the network can currently only support a fraction of these transactions. We look at three potential solutions, and how they fit together, to make the Bitcoin network a global competitor.
Bitcoins new block size limit solidifying at 8 megabytes
The seemingly endless argument among Bitcoin developers about how to scale up the blockchain for more transactions has just passed a major milestone when the Chinese mining pools stepped up to dictate the new size of the Bitcoin block size limit.
