Jiang Zhuo’er, the hardcore opponent of Bitcoin Core, posted a weibo bashing the Core Devs , whose obsession with anonymity and deepweb is the major hurdle to onchain scaling. He even compared the Core roadmap with Iridium Satellite project in a debate. He said: What the Core devel...
Background Though China has long been puzzled by its brain drain in the form of elite emigration, it is still out of expectation that the rising industry of Bitcoin is also losing its elite. Circle, a then sought-after start-up that received funding of 60 million USD with China’s Ba...
Bitcoin Core team is to hold a meetup in Shanghai on December 11, 2016. The meet-up will bring together prominent Bitcoin Core contributors and the Chinese bitcoin community to discuss the future development of bitcoin and blockchain. Topics of speakers will include: 1. What are the ...
On 4th December, Ebang Communication, a Hangzhou-based company, kicks off sales of 5000 units of 14nm Bitcoin miners from stock. With 6.3T/S hashrate per unit, the batch would amount to another 30P+ to the current 2,170P network as of 7th December. The Ebit or E9 miner is based on ...
On 5th Dec, BTC38 introduced company account verification and 0% transaction fee for these accounts by the end of 2017. Currently individual user need to submit ID number and mobile phone number verification for level 1 or 30,000 RMB monthly deposit limit, hand-held ID photos for level ...
Speaking on how Bitcoin mining has been evolving in China, a Chinese angel investor in Bitcoin and Ethereum startups has stated that things have changed in the sector in the last one year following the direct involvement of energy companies in the mining process which has decentralized most of...
Changyong Liu, a Bitcoin economy expert and university professor in China, explained why he trust miners more than any other stakeholders in the whole community. 4 reasons to trust Bitcoin miners 1.Miner’s stake is almost completely compatible with the whole ecological interests: ...
When it comes to the discussion of Segregated Witness, 2 important announcements made by Chinese bitcoin community are always mentioned. For those who are not familiar with them, 8btc now looks back the two documents for all reader's reference. 1.2015 Beijing Pool Conferenc...
There have been lots of discussions about the war between the SegWit (SW) and the Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) on 8btc forum in recent days. “BU Party" on 8btc refers to those who support Bitcoin Unlimited. "Beginagain" started a thread on 8btc forum :the Misconceptions about SegWit, w...
The increasing level of interest in the Blockchain technology that underlies Bitcoin - going by several initiatives that have been introduced of late - indicates a future trend that would make China the top-runner in the digital currency sphere in a few years. A research paper that details ...
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