Month: April 2017

A “backdoor” in Bitmain’s mining equipment was found (and fixed) this week, and the SEC is reviewing its decision to reject a Bitcoin ETF.

Segregated witnesses will be activated on Litecoin, and Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex appears to be in serious trouble.

Ever since Bitcoin’s inception its trust-minimizing consensus has been enabled by its proof-of-work algorithm. The work is performed by so-called miners; power hungry machines

F2Pool is now supporting segregated witnesses, and Russia is seeking to regulate Bitcoin.

Bitmain is accused of exploiting a weakness in proof-of-work, and Bic Camera has started accepting Bitcoin.