A Bitcoin hard fork is a significant event in the Bitcoin blockchain's history, creating a permanent divergence in the protocol's rules. This article explores what a hard fork is, why they happen, ...

The hard fork will introduce a new, competing layer-1 blockchain and seven layer-2 scaling networks, according to Sztorc's announcement. Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc announced on Friday that a new ...

Long-time Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc has been trying to overhaul Bitcoin's architecture since 2015, but the broader community hasn’t budged. So now he has proposed a dramatic step, called eCash ...

Debates over Bitcoin’s future are nothing new, but this week the discussion took on a sharper edge. One of Bitcoin’s long-serving developers was at the center of a storm about immutability, censorship ...