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New research from the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute argues that bitcoin must be restructured at its very core in order to compete as a mainstream payment system. “Bitcoin is soon going to reach the limits of its transactional throughput,” said Ari Juels, a co-founder of the...

Luzius Meisser, the founder of the Bitcoin Association Switzerland, has released findings of a block size survey he conducted, with responses coming from Reddit users. Wanting to test the difference in opinions between entrepreneurial and technical mindsets regarding the block...

A hallmark feature of Bitcoin and the blockchain it relies on has been the notion of decentralization. Praised by users and believers as the answer to the evils of Big Government, Wall Street and a host of other perceived societal ills, decentralization has been touted as the way...

If you’re out of the loop regarding Bitcoin, something of an existential crisis is happening among the folks responsible for determining the future of Bitcoin as a technology. Coming from Gavin Andresen, core developer for Bitcoin and chief data scientist of the Bitcoin...