Headers first changes the way in which the Bitcoin Core client discovers a chain, downloads and verifies it. Pieter Wuille, who has been working on the change, is calling for people to review and test his code. Continue reading
Category Archives: Bitcoin
Judge Forrest Rejects Illegal Search Defense In Ulbricht Case
Ulbricht's lawyers defense that the FBI illegally collected evidence in the case against him has been rejected by Judge Katherine Forrest on the grounds that Ulbricht insufficiently established that the server searched was his. Wired describes the ruling as based on a technicality. Some reactions to the ruling: Continue reading
Second Market Spins Off "Digital Currency Group"
Barry Silbert of SecondMarket announced the spin off of the Digital Currency Group from the parent company. The announcement:
Important step towards separating our bitcoin biz from @SecondMarket. The name. Introducing…Digital Currency Group http://t.co/s4Hld235bP
— Barry Silbert (@barrysilbert) October 10, 2014
The trademark for the new venture was initially filed June 20th, and the Digital Currency Group has a website at dcg.co
Full Transcript of US Commodity and Futures Trading Commision Bitcoin Session
As announced earlier, the United States Commodities and Futures Trading Commission dedicated a portion of their meeting today to the subject of Bitcoin derivatives. The full video won't be released for a few days, but the full transcript of the session on Bitcoin derivatives is below. Continue reading
Gavin Andresen Proposes Scalability Roadmap and Hardfork
On the blog of Peter Vessenes's Bitcoin Foundation Gavin Andresen offered an outline of measures he would like to see to improve the ability of Bitcoin to scale in the future, and one measure he proposes is a hard fork over blocksize. The measures mentioned include: Continue reading
Andreas Schildbach Releases 4.0 Version of Bitcoin Wallet for Android
Early this morning Andreas Schildbach released version 4.o of his "Bitcoin Wallet" for Android devices and announced the release on his Google Plus page. Continue reading
Keeping Bitcoin is a Hard Problem
A myriad of factors work against Bitcoin when it is in the hands of the lay person. Let us consider just a few of the reasons. Continue reading