Saturday, April 30, 2016

How to scale Bitcoin to VISA levels without a hard fork or blocksize increase

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In a presentation last week, Adam Back, the CEO of BlockStream, talked about Bitcoin scaling tradeoffs. At just about exactly one hour into ...
Friday, March 11, 2016

The one thing Bitcoin needs before it can be a success

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There have been a plethora of blogs/news stories/articles/etc that have stated that Bitcoin needs to do ____ before it will be a success whe...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Why we should keep the Bitcoin block size at 1mb forever

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In a previous blog post, I committed the heresy of heresies by stating that I think a fee event would be good for Bitcoin . In this post, I...
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Monday, January 25, 2016

Bitcoin and the immutable web

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I've been thinking about what some of the next layer of apps that will be built on top of Bitcoin will be. Certainly, OpenBazaar is on...
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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Bitcoin: Why a fee event would be good for Bitcoin

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What is a fee event? As originally defined by core developer Jeff Garzik here , a fee event is an event where Bitcoin's blocks permanent...
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Saturday, January 23, 2016

What the heck is Bitcoin Core thinking?

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Yesterday, Eric Voorhees made a post on Reddit titled "IMHO BTC price will be weak until Core demonstrates competency in social consens...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

BlockArrayChains

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Background ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------- One of the major problems with Bitcoin revolve...