Thursday’s Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard fork has left the crypto community on the edge of their seat, waiting for a clear-cut winner between Amaury Séchet’s Bitcoin ABC and Craig Wright’s nChain to emerge. While the early frontrunner looks to be BCHABC, Wright continues to assert that the ‘Hash War’ is not a sprint but instead a drawn-out affair. That being said, many […]
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Breaking: Bitcoin Cash Hard Forks — BCH Hash War Begins
Minutes ago, Bitcoin Cash activated a hard fork that splintered the fourth-largest cryptocurrency’s network into at least two competing versions, currently referred to by their primary software clients, Bitcoin ABC (BCHABC) and Bitcoin SV (BCHSV). The Bitcoin Cash network upgraded shortly after 18:00 UTC, when the BCHABC and BCHSV chains diverged at block 556767. Bitcoin.com
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War: Bitcoin Cash Startup Launches Mining Pool to Attack Altcoins & BCH Forks
A prominent bitcoin cash startup has launched a mining pool designed to attack altcoins and BCH forks that it does not believe fulfill Satoshi Nakamoto’s original vision for the cryptocurrency. SharkPool: Supporting Bitcoin Cash by Attacking other Networks Dubbed “SharkPool,” the service aims to conduct a two-pronged attack on other cryptocurrency networks, exclusively mining empty … Continued
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BitMEX Launches a New Site for Monitoring Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash Forks
The constant forks of both the Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchains have resulted in much confusion, both for novice and experienced investors alike. In order to help clarify this ongoing issue, BitMEX, the cryptocurrency platform known for its leveraged trading, has launched ForkMonitor.info to provide up-to-date information on the latest Bitcoin forks. We are proud to announce […]
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BitMEX Launches New Fork Monitoring Website to Keep Track of Bitcoin Forks
BitMEX just launched a website to make it easier to keep tabs on hard and soft forks on the Bitcoin blockchain.
According to a recent blog post, the research arm of BitMEX is sponsoring a new website, ForkMonitor.info, which is connected to 13 nodes of Bitcoin and its hard forks, most notably Bitcoin Cash.
The website will monitor many different aspects of the networks and their associated blockchains, with the ultimate goal of keeping track of these variables during forks to be “potentially useful in helping to detect unintentional consensus bugs.”
Monero Forks: Bulletproofs Integration Kicks off New Era of Privacy, Speed
Monero (XMR) forked successfully earlier today, and the network has seen no major hiccups so far. This release is unlike the usual ones that try to keep up with deterring ASIC miners. The release, called “Monero 0.13.0 “Beryllium Bullet,” includes a significant overhaul of the network’s protocol through the introduction of bulletproofs. Bulletproofs Explained The … Continued
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Hard Forks Hinder Mass Adoption of Cryptocurrencies: Study
A new study has concluded that hard forks are a threat to the adoption of cryptocurrencies. This is because splits in the blockchain of a particular cryptocurrency tend to lead to the erosion of trust. Additionally, such splits reduce user’s confidence in the capacity of the affected cryptocurrency to continue thriving as a medium of
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Coin Center Calls for Congress to Give U.S. Taxpayers Safe Harbor on Bitcoin Hard Forks
Cryptocurrency industry non-profit research and advocacy organization Coin Center is calling for Congress to enact legislation that will provide bitcoin investors with safe harbor on federal taxes incurred as the result of software forks. Writing in a post published on the Washington, D.C.-based organization’s blog, executive director Jerry Brito argued that cryptocurrency investors who have
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A Look at the Long and Annoying Process of Claiming Bitcoin Forks
Over the past year, there has been a lot of forked coins based on the Bitcoin Core (BTC) codebase in various forms and with all types of interesting names. There are anywhere between 40-70 forked coins in the ecosystem that are worth a few bucks, while some of them are worthless and not worth the time to claim. Over the past three weeks, news.Bitcoin.com started the process of collecting as many forks as we can, just to see if the processes are easy or how hard it is to claim these tokens.
Hard Forks May Kill Bitcoin in 100 Years, Says Nobel Laureate
American Nobel Laureate, economist, academic, and best-selling author Robert Shiller claims Bitcoin may be extinct in 100 years — and hard forks will be to blame.
A Big Forking Problem
Nobody can accurately see 100 years into the future, but prominent economist Rober Shiller claims Bitcoin may go the way of the West African Black Rhinoceros — that is to say: extinct.
According to the Yale professor, hard forks will be to blame for the dissolution of the first and foremost cryptocurrency. Shiller told CNBC’s Trading Nation:
Bitcoin’s 40+ Struggling Hard Forks Show Industry Has ‘Moved On’
Bitcoin now has over 40 hard forks resulting in spin-off tokens, new research reveals, while sentiment suggests most will suffer the fate of most historical altcoins.
Bitcoin’s ‘Moved On’ From Hard Forks
Being a ‘Bitcoin maximalist’ may not be as crazy as you think. In the latest installment of its market research, Hong Kong based trading platform BitMEX identified 42 struggling tokens, which “seem to have forked away from Bitcoin.”
All coming after the network’s first hard fork, Bitcoin Cash, the list includes many tokens which failed to make the headlines, such as Bitcoin Hot, Bitcoin Faith, and even Bitcoin Pizza.
Bitcoin in Brief Saturday: Forks and Fights
Bitcoin in Brief is your daily roundup of the stories that matter from the cryptosphere. Drama; in-fighting; hacks; humor; it’s all here. In today’s edition, Vitalik Buterin gets catty, Coinbase meets “coinbase”, and Tim Draper has an audacious suggestion for India.
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Coinbase and “coinbase” Are Not the Same Thing
Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchange; coinbase (lower case) is a field used for claiming the block reward when mining bitcoin and other cryptos. Confusing the two is easily done, as happened to one Tron enthusiast on Wednesday. After spotting the magic word in the mainnet code for TRX, he theorized that the coin was poised to be listed on Coinbase. Crypto twitter promptly piled in, mocking the unfortunate individual with “coinbase” references they’d spotted in other altcoin code.
How to Profit and Claim Bitcoin Forks in 2018 – The Ultimate Guide
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Warning: claiming and selling forkcoins involves considerable risks, and requires some advanced knowledge. By attempting these procedures, you accept all of these risks: Working with and exposing your Bitcoin private keys Installing and running certain software Trading and possibly identifying yourself on various exchanges If you don’t fully understand forks, please watch this video first: […]
Shibe Vibes: Dogecoin Hard Forks To ‘Dogethereum’ Later In 2018
News that Dogecoin had become a test asset for Ethereum’s inter-coin Rinkeby testnet has sparked a project aiming to hard fork it later this year.
Dogecoin’s ‘Serious’ Year?
Dogethereum (DOGX), which shares its name with the Rinkeby project known as Dogethereum Bridge, is looking to branch off from the Dogecoin chain in fall. This would constitute Dogecoin’s first ever hard fork.
“Dogethereum is new decentralized digital currency, it will be founded on snapshot of popular Dogecoin, based on ETH algorithm with fastest speed of transactions, smart contracts,” developers describe on Bitcointalk Monday.
REKT! Bitcoin Forks Lose Up To 99% Versus Highs, Bitcoin Holds At 69%
Bitcoin may have dropped in price, but its losses are far below many altcoin assets as forks Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold hemorrhage value.
Grim Reading For Bitcoin Forks
In an analysis of 63 top cryptocurrencies by market cap, one online commentator drew attention to overall retraction of prices versus their all-time highs.
Bitcoin came in 52nd on the list, having dropped 69% as of Tuesday. Bitcoin Cash had fallen a giant 82% to reach number 16, while Bitcoin Gold fared even worse, losing 85% to occupy 6th position.
Fork Me Once… Super Bitcoin and Bitcoin Platinum Among 5 New Hard Forks
Bitcoin holders will meet at least three new hard forks in December as the success of Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold spawns a host of trailblazers.
Bitcoin’s (Minimum) 3-Fork December
Two more forks are slated to occur but do not yet have a block at which they will split from the Bitcoin core chain, while another, Bitcoin Diamond, has already done so and has futures trading around $ 50.
A summary of the forthcoming network snapshots, which could all potentially deliver ‘free money’ to BTC holders, appeared on Twitter Thursday.