Jiang Zhuoer: Bitcoin Core’s Next Goal is to Increase Bitcoin’s Fixed Supply and Stop “Halvening”

Feb 11, 2019

In the wake of the idea of bitcoin supply increase floated at Satoshi’s Roundtable, Jiang Zhuoer, the founder of prominent cryptocurrency mining pool BTC.Top, claimed on Feb. 10 on his Weibo page that the Bitcoin Core development team’s next goal is to raise bitcoin’s maximum suppl...

Payment Processor Rejects Roger Ver’s $1.25m Listing Offer

Jan 1, 2019

Bitcoin Cash's Roger Ver has deemed a response by a payment processor startup which reportedly rejected a $1.25 mln he offered to get his cryptocurrency on their platform as tribalistic. OpenNode claims Ver's offer is against their belief that "a better, more open financial system is only pos...

Hashrate Drop: Estimated 1.3 mln Bitmain S9 Miners Switched off

Dec 11, 2018

Bitcoin hashrate has fallen by about 31% since the start of November 2018, says BitMex in its recent crypto market analysis in the wake of a general price decline. The crypto exchange notes that the reduced hashrate, which it estimates represents a switch off of almost 1.3 million Bitmain S9 ...

Bitcoin Cash Going Down as Stellar Warms up

Nov 24, 2018

Bitcoin Cash's market cap has been cut in half since the Nov. 15 hardfork which birthed the Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV chains. Now at a mere $3.5 bln and a unit price of ~$201 as at the time of writing, Bitcoin Cash is suffering similar market fate as others in the top 20 ranking as the...

Bitcoin Cash Split Into Two Blockchains, but Craig Wright Warned “Game On”

Nov 16, 2018

Bitcoin Cash, the most successful bitcoin offshoot, has officially split into two at 18:16 UTC on November 15. Since two factions of the contentious debate leading up to the hard fork failed to come to a compromise, two competing implementation of the code, Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV...

F2Pool Will Support the Mining of BCHABC and BCHSV after Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork

Nov 14, 2018

F2Pool, the sixth largest bitcoin mining pool in the world, announced on Tuesday that it will allow miners to mine both coins generated from the upcoming Bitcoin Cash hard fork after the chain splits. According to the statement F2Pool posted on its WeChat official account, the nex...

Bitmain Rushes to Deploy 90,000 Antminer S9 Miners in Xinjiang as Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Looms

Nov 8, 2018

With the Bitcoin Cash(BCH)hard fork 7 days way, the two opposing camps---Bitcoin ABC and nChain---are moving forward with their plans. Bitmain, the world’s biggest maker of cryptocurrency hardware and the loyal proponent of Bitcoin ABC, is expediting the deployment of roughly...

As Bitcoin Cash Fork Approaches, Both Jihan Wu and TSMC Denied the Rumor About Bitmain’s Debt Problem

Nov 6, 2018

As the Bitcoin Cash(BCH) hard fork which is scheduled on November 15th, the ongoing battle between Jihan Wu’s Bitcoin ABC developers and Craig Wright’s nChain sees a new turn with the former lashing out at Coingeek for its recent report about Bitmain’s debts. Coingeek has taken...

Lies, Misinformation as Bitcoin Cash Nov. 15 Fork Nears

Nov 5, 2018

What to believe is becoming increasingly difficult for several Bitcoin Cash (BCH) users as the network's top players send out confusing messages ahead of the proposed Nov. 15 hard fork. Forks are good to battle-test different ideas but unchecked allegations are deepening the BCH crisis. T...

Own Exchange, US Merchants Acceptance…So Much Coming for Bitcoin Cash

Oct 11, 2018

A lot seems to be in store for the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) ecosystem if recent comments by its founder, Roger Ver, are anything to go by though a section of the community still holds their 'see it to believe it' card. [caption id="attachment_29270" align="aligncenter" width="730"] BCH's Ro...