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How Bitcoin Fees Can Drastically Decrease With SegWit and Lightning

Earlier this week, bitcoin developer Jack Mallers introduced Zap, a Lightning-enabled wallet which enables users to send bitcoin micropayments, or extremely small bitcoin transactions...

Trezor Software Update Enables Full Litecoin SegWit Support

Litecoin users will be pleased to hear Trezor has updated their hardware wallet. More specifically, the software side of things has been updated recently....

Remarkably Stable Litecoin Price Does not go by Unnoticed

Litecoin has not had the best of runs as of late. Despite major technological advancements, the LTC value continues to hover around the same...

Latest Bitcoin Core Client Makes SegWit Opt-in For Miners

It appears the Bitcoin Core developers have released a new software client that introduces an interesting twist. Up until now, running Bitcoin Core made...

Litecoin SegWit Is Dangerously Close to Falling Below The Activation Threshold

As of right now, there is a lot of discussion among Litecoin enthusiasts regarding SegWit and the UASF. Even though the activating of SegWit...

Altcoins See Their Value Go Up As They Inch Closer to Activating SegWit

Bitcoin is not the only cryptocurrency trying to implement Segregated Witness these days. In fact, several alternative currencies have already done so successfully, including...

Litecoin Network SegWit Support Climbs To Nearly 70%

It appears as if things are quietly improving for the litecoin ecosystem. Not only is the LTC rocketing upwards, but the network is inching...

Litecoin SegWit Signaling Support Reaches 59%

Ever since the litecoin developers implemented SegWit signaling, things have been progressing at an accelerated pace. Even though activating Segregated Witness requires 75% network...

SegWit2MB Proposal Combines Segwit Activation With Predetermined Block Size Increase Date

Even though it sometimes appears as if we are getting closer to a bitcoin scaling solution, that is far from the case. Yet another...

Nearly 70% of Bitcoin Community Supports SegWit With Only 5% Openly Opposing It

It is always interesting to keep an eye on the public opinion regarding the SegWit and BU debate. Although miners clearly favor Bitcoin Unlimited...

Four Months Into SegWit Signaling, Bitcoin Unlimited Is Winning The Race

The debate between SegWit and BU supporters is far from over, even though not much has changed these past few days. That being said,...

SegWit and Bitcoin Unlimited Gain Equal Network Support Once Again

It appears as if the race between SegWit and Bitcoin Unlimited has taken another drastic turn. Although SegWit seemed to have a clear advantage...