Bigger Blocks and Smarter Contracts: What’s In Bitcoin Cash’s Next Fork? Bitcoin cash’s most ambitious hard fork upgrade is coming in May, backed by the promise of taking its “on-chain scaling” philosophy to new heights.… Read More
Parity Says ‘No Intention’ To Split Ethereum Over Fund Recovery Parity Technologies has said it has no plans to move forward with a code change that would result in an ethereum blockchain split.… Read More
Ethereum’s Top Developers Think A Blockchain Split Might Be Inevitable Parity is set on implementing their new proposal to recover frozen funds, and ethereum devs are worried there’s nothing to stop a blockchain split. … Read More
Overbought? Bitcoin Cash Looks Extended After 80% Gain Bitcoin cash has rallied hugely in the approach to a technical upgrade, but a healthy pullback may be in the offing. … Read More
Monero Fork Underway In Bid to Block Big Miners A planned hard fork of privacy-centric cryptocurrency monero has just executed and the community is keenly observing the results.… Read More
Ethereum ASICs Are Here: What It Means and What’s Next After weeks of speculation, Bitmain has announced an ASIC for ethereum mining, spurring the developer community into action to try and block its use. … Read More
Does the IRS Get a Cut of Your Bitcoin Cash? The tax treatment of hard forks in the U.S. is uncertain and the IRS should issue guidance addressing such issues, says a legal expert.… Read More
Zcash’s Coming Hard Fork Could Pave the Way for Even More Zcash’s first hard fork is coming up, and devs expect it to activate without a hitch, preparing zcash for bigger, better upgrades in the future. … Read More
Soft, Hard or Velvet? New Fork Promises Crypto Upgrades Without Controversy You’ve probably heard of “forks,” a way of making changes to cryptocurrencies. Now researchers are realizing there’s a new kind.… Read More
‘Bitcoin Private’ Is Here, But What’s It Worth? A fork of a fork of a fork? A new cryptocurrency just launched that’s nearly identical to zcash, but commentators are questioning its value add. … Read More