Why nothing will happen [with Bitcoin] on August 1st

What was going to happen (BIP148)

A number of months ago, the community decided to coordinate the activation of Segwit on August 1st, rather than continue delegation of this coordination to…

How you can help ensure BIP148 is a success

Over the last several weeks, I’ve seen a lot of people promoting BIP148/UASF on social media. Just the other day, someone announced they’d purchased numerous Raspberry Pis to run BIP148 full nodes. However, do these things really help BIP148? Not really.

The Segwit”2x” beta, review and thoughts

The changes in Segwit2x’s beta can be divided into 5 categories.

I’ll start with the simplest part: branding. “Bitcoin Core 0.14.1” has become “btc1 Core 1.14.3”. Not much to say about this (although it’s interesting to note it’s…