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A Short Guide to Bitcoin Forks
Don't know a hard fork from a soft fork? This guide is designed to help you follow bitcoin's raging technical debates.
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Scaling Consensus? This Turing Winner Thinks He's Found a Way
Turing Award winner Silvio Micali is working on a new consensus algorithm, one he argues could help massively scale blockchains.
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MIT Expo Spotlights Bitcoin Tech Concerns
The fourth annual MIT Bitcoin Expo this week saw much discussion of the need for more bitcoin nodes to avoid centralization of the tech.
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A (Short) Guide to Blockchain Consensus Protocols
Bitcoin's consensus mechanism is great, but it isn't perfect. This article looks at some of the more viable public blockchain alternatives.
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