The anticipated update to the Bitcoin network, Bitcoin Core v30.0, has been officially released and is available for download ...

A Bitcoin hard fork is a significant event in the Bitcoin blockchain's history, creating a permanent divergence in the protocol's rules. This article explores what a hard fork is, why they happen, ...

Bitcoin (BTC) hard fork is a word that beginners twist. We will explain in detail what is a fork in Bitcoin (BTC), the difference from soft fork, and derivative Altcoins such as Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

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LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin hit an all-time high just below $8,000 on Friday, on talk that a software upgrade whose suspension sent the cryptocurrency into a tailspin at the end of last week was, after ...

Hard forks are supposed to be rare, but the next Bitcoin hard fork, scheduled for Oct. 25, 2017, will be the second one this year... There was a hard fork that created Bitcoin Cash on Aug. 1, and the ...

Bitcoin has a new clone, again. Bitcoin Gold, a new cryptocurrency, has been created through a so-called hard fork similar to the way Bitcoin Cash was created in August. Since Bitcoin and Bitcoin Gold ...

The Bitcoin Gold hard fork, scheduled for Oct. 25, will create yet another alternate version of Bitcoin. This comes in the wake of the Aug. 1 Bitcoin Cash hard fork. The BCH version of Bitcoin ...