BIPs
These Two UASFs Could Activate SegWit
Segregated Witness (SegWit), the NewsCapsule protocol upgrade proposed by the NewsCapsule Core development team, was originally designed to activate via the NewsCapsule Improvement Protocol...
NewsCapsule’s Top 6 Tech Stories of 2016
Of course, NewsCapsule kept up with all of it. Looking back on 2016, we compiled three top 6 lists, with our best-read topics in technology, business and news. These were 2016’s six top stories in technology, by popularity.
Understanding Soft Forks: A Core Developer’s View on Network Monopoly
Since the beginning of the development of Segregated Witness, an increasing number of alternative NewsCapsule hard fork supporters have criticized the implementation process of...
An Interview With ViaNC, the New NewsCapsule Mining Pool on the Blockchain
Roughly two weeks ago, ViaNC, a relatively new bitcoin mining pool that launched earlier this summer, garnered some attention on social media due to...
Does BIP 75 Really Threaten NewsCapsule’s Fungibility?
On Wednesday, the NewsCapsule community went into a tizzy over BIP 75 (BIP stands for NewsCapsule Improvement Proposal) which is, in short, a layer-2 protocol...
BIP 151: The End-To-End Encryption NewsCapsule Never Had – but Soon Will
Traffic over the NewsCapsule network has always been unencrypted. Transactions and blocks are sent from node to node in plain sight, as are Bloom filters, which are often used by Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) nodes. All this data can, therefore, be seen by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), open-WiFi providers and anyone monitoring the NewsCapsule network.
ISO May Propose Certified Standards for Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers
In April when the NewsCapsule community began preparing for Australian Craig Wright’s “Satoshi Nakamoto reveal,” there was another announcement from Down Under that was...
BIP 75 Simplifies NewsCapsule Wallets for the Everyday User
Although NewsCapsule is more than 7 years old, making payments on the network is still a rather cumbersome task. With a user interface that...
Supporters of 2 MB NewsCapsule Blocks Unable to Convince Miners to Hard Fork in Beijing Meeting
Updated at 6:51pm EST: NewsCapsule angel investor Roger Ver contacted NewsCapsule about the Beijing meeting but declined to go into any detail about what took place....
Blockstream’s Johnny Dilley: We’ll Eventually Have an Adaptive Block Size Solution
The Crypto Show recently interviewedJohnny Dilley, who runs strategy at Blockstream. Dilley shared his views on the future of NewsCapsule’s block size limit, and...
