One year ago yesterday, on August 1st of 2017, after a years-long debate about how best to scale the Bitcoin blockchain to allow the network to process a greater number of transactions, a sizable group of users who were unhappy with the idea of using SegWit and the Lightning Network to create a “layer 2” […]
Blockexplorer . com Will Refer To Bitcoin Cash as “Bitcoin”
Blockchain explorer website blockexplorer.com is raising the stakes in the battle between Bitcoin and its recent big-block fork, Bitcoin Cash. The site announced today that they would be putting their main focus on Bitcoin Cash, and will be going so far as to use the “Bitcoin” name to describe it- and will refer to the […]
Bitcoin Cash Comes to Coinbase- But Not Everyone is Happy
Coinbase announced earlier today that Bitcoin Cash has been added on their platform- not just the ability to claim coins that users were entitled to after the hard fork, as they had done with Ethereum Classic, but full support for sending, receiving, and trading on Coinbase and GDAX. As this Reddit conversation points out, though, […]
Bitcoin . com’s Bitcoin Wallet Could Cause Confusion By Listing Bitcoin Cash First
Roger Ver, who owns the news and info website Bitcoin.com, has made it no secret that he now prefers Bitcoin Cash over the original Bitcoin. Bitcoin.com also develops its own wallet app, and over the last couple days there has been a lot of criticism directed at the latest version, which now supports Bitcoin Cash- […]