Why ViaBTC Rejects SegWit Soft Fork in Favor of Block Size Hard Fork: Interview With Haipo Yang

Set to offer an effective block size limit increase, a transaction malleability fix and more, Segregated Witness (SegWit) could soon go live on the Bitcoin network. Starting tonight, miners can signal support for the proposed centerpiece of Bitcoin Core’s scalability roadmap. The soft fork will activate if 95 percent of hash power agrees. But Chinese mining pool ViaBTC, currently representing […]

vDice – Introducing a Fully Decentralised Gambling Platform

vDice is the world’s 1st live, Fully Decentralized Gambling Platform using the Ethereum and Blockchain Technology.  vDice is the leading blockchain-based betting game for the Ethereum network. The site went live on June 13th, 2016. It has processed almost 10,000 bets to-date. It is a classic ‘SatoshiDICE-style’ betting game, implemented as an Ethereum Smart Contract […]

DECENT Releases Public Web App Demo

It’s back to business as usual with DECENT, now that their 8-week initial token offering is over. Having raised ~5,881 bitcoins (currently over $4.3 million USD) and generated around 38.5 million DCT tokens, the decentralized content distribution platform has acquired key partners such as Naughty America, Fastweb and CoinMine. Now they’re putting those resources to […]

Bitcoin Price Watch; Here’s What’s On For The Weekly Close

Ok, the end of another week is here, and it’s been a great one for us intraday traders. Price hasn’t stayed still for long, and when it has, it’s generally been on the back of some solid momentum runs, so we expect consolidation here and there. We’ve got the remainder of the US session left […]