Bitcoin and cryptocurrency research development group, Chaincode Labs has hired developer and co-founder of Blockstream, Pieter Wuille, who will now work on protocol improvements to Bitcoin. The coder and engineer posted a tweet in which he said he would continue to collaborate with the research team at Blockstream. Very excited to announce I’m joining Chaincode...Read More
Samson Mow, CSO of Blockstream, demonstrates to all of us why the bitcoin community needs a little more testosterone heading into 2020. | Image: shutterstock.com Infamous “Gym Friend” meme contains lessons for the bitcoin community in 2020. Campaign of frantic censorship and deflection highlights a lack of reasoned leadership at Blockstream. The cryptocurrency space needs...Read More
[embedded content] A co-founder of LinkedIn and a member of the PayPal Mafia, Reid Hoffman, released a new rap video describing a competition between central banks and cryptocurrency. His “epic rap battle” begins with presenting the U.S. Founding Father and first Secretary of the Treasury – Alexander Hamilton, and, of course – Satoshi Nakamoto (don’t...Read More
Bitcoin Fees in December 2017 were almost always above $10, sometimes reaching nearly $30. Today we are nearly at the same price and fees have dropped considerably; less than a dollar in most cases. But has Bitcoin actually scaled, or is it just a case of fewer transactions happening on the network? Fees are only...Read More
A group of hardcore bitcoin maximalists have heroically overcome their hatred for Ethereum after receiving ERC20 shares in crypto exchange INX worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The staunch BTC loyalists, led by Blockstream CTO Samson Mow, have agreed to support a project built on Ethereum, despite all the mean things they’ve said about it....Read More
