Aaron van Wirdum

Aaron van Wirdum is a freelance journalist. He studied Politics and Society in Historical Perspective at Utrecht University, and specialized himself in the influence of freedom of speech and communication technologies on social structures

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Blythe Masters' Digital Asset Holdings acquires Hyperledger and Bits of Proof; Seals with Clubs operator Bryan Micon reaches plea deal to avoid jail time and mo...

JUN 26 DIGEST: Blythe Masters Acquires Hyperledger and Bits of Proof; Seals With Clubs Operator Agrees to Plea Deal

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2015-06-26T13:02:00+01:00

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Three of China's biggest mining pools – F2Pool, BTCChina Pool and Huobi Pool – maintain that the Bitcoin Core development team should strive for consensus, and ...

Chinese Mining Pools Call for Consensus; Refuse Switch to Bitcoin XT

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2015-06-24T12:44:00+01:00

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Bitcoin Core developer Gavin Andresen today proposed a hard fork change for Bitcoin XT in order to allow for an increased block size limit on the Bitcoin networ...

Andresen Proposes Hard Fork Patch for Bitcoin XT; Critics Remain Skeptical

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2015-06-23T10:40:00+01:00

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BitPay and Coinbase have publicly defended an increase in the block size limit as proposed by Bitcoin core developer Gavin Andresen.

Major Payment Processors in Favor of Block Size Increase; Coinkite and BitPagos Prefer BIP 100

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2015-06-19T17:24:00+01:00

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Case Wallet raised US$1.5 million, Polish payment processors and at least one bank have closed the accounts of several local bitcoin exchanges and more news

JUN 19 DIGEST: Case Wallet Raises US$1.5 Million; Polish Exchanges Suffer in Bitcoin Crackdown

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2015-06-19T12:54:43+01:00

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Five of China's biggest mining pools — AntPool, F2Pool, BTCChina, BW Mining, and Huobi — have agreed to raise the block size limit to 8 MB.

Chinese Mining Pools Propose Alternative 8 MB Block Size

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2015-06-16T16:30:00+01:00

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Overstock bought three domain names and three social media handles for 150 bitcoin, hacker publishes meta-data details of Silk Road judge Katherine Forest's wor...

JUN 15 DIGEST: Overstock Spends Bitcoin on 3 Domains; Anonymous Hacker 'Doxes' Silk Road Judge

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2015-06-15T12:34:35+01:00

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Bitcoin exchanges have so far refrained from offering meaningful, public comments on the issue.

Exchanges Refrain from Commenting on the Block Size Debate

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2015-06-14T17:27:00+01:00

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