The people who operate Bitcoin and secure it for posterity are in a debate over how much data can be stored on its blockchain ...

Ocean’s mining pool currently accounts for somewhere around 2% of the overall network hashrate. More than 20% of the hashrate already appears to be accepting of larger OP_RETURN transactions, and the ...

A group of Bitcoin Core developers published an op-ed indicating their support for non-financial use cases. The article follows an announcement that Bitcoin Core will remove a data cap that restricts ...

A hefty battle is raging over the preferred Bitcoin software implementation. One side wants to boost the amount of data the blockchain can register. This would throw a lifeline to struggling Bitcoin ...

A new Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP-444) is introduced to restrict how much arbitrary data can be embedded in Bitcoin transactions.

The OP_RETURN debate splits Bitcoin users: Bitcoin Core 30.0 allows data embedding, while Bitcoin Knots pushes back, fearing spam, rising fees, and regulatory risks. The debate is quite technical, ...

The developers of Bitcoin Core, the primary open-source software for connecting the blockchain behind the world's largest cryptocurrency, said October's version 30 release will increase the default ...

SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Core Foundation, the entity powering Core, the leading Bitcoin scaling protocol, is set to present the most exciting Bitcoin track at Permissionless IV, one of the ...

The 2024 Bitcoin halving reduced block rewards to 3.125 BTC, cutting miners’ income in half. This change, combined with higher electricity costs, expensive equipment maintenance and increased ...