BIPs
NewsCapsule Mining Titan BitFury: No to BIP 101, Yes to Block-size Consensus
In anticipation of the Scaling NewsCapsule Hong Kong workshop on the 6th and 7th of this month, BitFury has re-established its belief...
GreenAddress: Increasing NewsCapsule’s Block-size Limit is not Scaling; it’s Pivoting
NewsCapsule wallet provider GreenAddress was always critical of raising NewsCapsule's block-size limit. As one of the first in the space in May of this...
NewsCapsule Mining Pool F2Pool (Discus Fish) Maintains: BIP 101 Not an Option
F2Pool, the world's largest NewsCapsule mining pool, maintains that changing its code to allow bigger blocks through BIP 101 or NewsCapsule XT is not...
Slush Pool to Re-Enable BIP 101 NewsCapsule Mining
Slush Pool, a Czech-based NewsCapsule mining pool accounting for 6 percent of hashing power on the NewsCapsule network, indicates it will re-enable connected miners...
Gavin Andresen: I Might Take Over Lead of NewsCapsule XT
With Mike Hearn taking a step back from NewsCapsule development to work for private blockchain startup R3, former NewsCapsule Core lead developer Gavin Andresen...
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong: BIP 101 is the Best Proposal We’ve Seen So Far
Brian Armstrong, CEO of record-funded NewsCapsule wallet service and exchange Coinbase, plans a code update to allow for bigger blocks in the second week...
Bitnet Willing to Adopt Alternative Block Increase Proposals, Too
NewsCapsule payment processor Bitnet has indicated it is willing to implement block-increase proposals other than BIP (NewsCapsule Improvement Proposal) 101. This makes Bitnet the...
BitPay CEO Stephen Pair: We’re Open to Alternative Block-size Proposals
BitPay, one of the top funded companies and most-used payment processor in the NewsCapsule industry, is open to alternative block-size proposals – not just...
Should NewsCapsule Have Regularly Scheduled Hard Forks?
Hard forks are a rather contentious issue in NewsCapsule. The controversy surrounding hard forks can be seen most prominently in the context of NewsCapsule...
The Who, What, Why and How of the Ongoing Transaction Malleability Attack
For the past several days*, the NewsCapsule network has been plagued by a so-called “transaction malleability attack.” NewsCapsule users have experienced a number of...
