In the last few months, a contentious debate has arisen surrounding the issue of a hardcoded constant in the consensus rules of the Bitcoin network. While on the surface it appears to be a simple ...

Bitcoin has entered into a new phase of its existence. Prominent developers Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen have made changes to the alternative Bitcoin implementation Bitcoin XT, designed to fork ...

When you really try to nail down what makes a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin really Bitcoin, the more technical you get, the closer you are to discussing block size. A block is really a set of data, and ...