hard-forks


Tech

Ethereum Devs Grapple With Worst-Case Scenarios

Is Ethereum ready for the “London” hard fork?

Valid Points July 27

Markets

Countdown to Ethereum’s ‘London’ Hard Fork: What You Need to Know

Plus: The risks and rewards of Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559.

Crypto Long & Short July 25

Markets

Hard Forks Are Fan Fiction

If the Bitcoin network is a collectively told story, as the philosopher Craig Warmke argued, wouldn't hard forks be fan fiction?

Dogecoin was forked from Lucky Coin – a fork of Litecoin, which is a fork of Bitcoin.

Tech

Ethereum Classic Activates Thanos Upgrade, Increasing Access for GPU Miners

The Thanos upgrade is aimed to allow more miner participation and thus increase security.

A cosplayer dressed as Thanos attends New York Comic Con 2019.

Markets

Blockchain Project Qtum Moves to Boost Network Participation With Offline Staking

The hybrid blockchain will soon undergo a fork enabling network participants to stake and earn rewards from tokens held in offline wallets.

Qtum lead developer Jordan Earls (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Appeals Court Backs Coinbase in Bitcoin Gold Fork 'Breach of Contract' Lawsuit

A California appeals court has backed a prior judgment that the cryptocurrency exchange wasn't obliged to to support the Bitcoin Gold hard fork in 2017.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

Tech

Fixing This Bitcoin-Killing Bug Will (Eventually) Require a Hard Fork

The bug sheds light on the challenges of Bitcoin's decentralization. At least we've got 86 years for the community to join together and implement a fix.

(Chandu J S/Unsplash)

Tech

Cardano Introduces Proof-of-Stake With 'Shelley' Hard Fork

It's alive! Cardano has successfully hard forked to its major upgrade, Shelley, which introduced proof-of-stake to the network.

Mary Shelley wrote the Gothic novel "Frankenstein." Boris Karloff starred in the 1931 movie version. (Wikimedia Commons)

Tech

OpenEthereum Supported 50% of Ethereum Classic Nodes. Now It’s Leaving the Project

Two of Ethereum Classic’s largest clients are walking away from the project. That leaves only 30% of the network to support future updates.

(Ryan Oswick/Unsplash)

Tech

Ethereum Developers Delay Berlin Hard Fork to Stem Client Centralization Concerns

79% of Ethereum nodes run on Geth. Core developers have pushed back July's Berlin hard fork so other clients can catch up.

Bundestag, Berlin, Germany (Ricardo Gomez Angel/Unsplash)