Category: Bitcoin Core
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One of Hal Finney’s lost contributions to Bitcoin Core to be ‘resurrected’
While Hal Finney may no longer be with us, one of his proposals from 2011 may soon find its way to Bitcoin thanks to an expired patent.
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Would Bitcoin suffer if the lead maintainers were kidnapped by aliens?
As lead maintainer Wladimir van der Laan takes a break from Bitcoin duties, we ask what would happen if the entire Github maintenance team disappeared.
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Semantic debate may account for Wladimir van der Laan’s Bitcoin Core departure
When determining consensus in the blockchain community, right and wrong isn’t always “Black” and “White”.
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Pieter Wuille will continue to work with Blockstream despite his recent move to Chaincode Labs
Wuille will continue contributing to a new Multi-Signature standard for Bitcoin.
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Film Reels and Steel: Github Plans to Archive Bitcoin Code for 1,000 Years
The Microsoft subsidiary, Github recently revealed the “Archive Program,” an initiative that aims to preserve open source technologies for 1,000 years. The newly launched effort plans to store snapshots of open source technology 250 meters underground on the Norwegian island of Svalbard. The source code management and collaboration platform also plans to store the Bitcoin…
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Tron’s Steemit Acquisition Exposes Delegated-Proof-of-Stake Centralization
The Steemit community is mired in controversy over the recent Tron takeover that managed to change the Steem blockchain’s governance. Steem witnesses attempted to soft fork the blockchain on February 24 to remove the powerful voting power Tron and Steemit hold. However, the soft fork wasn’t able to prevent the Tron takeover and Steemit community…