Discover Bitcoin forks, hard forks, and soft forks and how they impact the blockchain network and what they mean for your crypto holdings.

Bitcoin Knots is preparing a Sunday rehearsal for a BLAKE2b fork after its previous breakaway BIP-110 chain stalled. On Aug. 29, Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr told SHA-2 miners to stop mining ahead of ...

A new Bitcoin improvement proposal calls for a one-year soft fork for Bitcoin while developers resolve the transaction filtering debate, but the language within it has sparked controversy. Update: Oct ...

A planned August fork called eCash would copy Bitcoin’s ledger and give existing BTC holders equivalent balances on a new chain, while diverting about 500,000 forked coins attributed to Satoshi ...

F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang criticized Bitcoin’s BIP-444 soft fork — seeking to curb arbitrary onchain data — as a “bad idea” that he will not support. Chun Wang, co-founder of major Bitcoin mining ...

Discover how Bitcoin works under the hood. Learn about mining, transactions, consensus, nodes, and the technology securing the network.

Postquant Labs is launching Quip Network’s post-quantum bitcoin wallet, which uses the Arch Network smart contract layer to add WOTS+ signatures without changing Bitcoin’s base protocol. The product ...

An eCash fork, which would create a separate ECX asset for Bitcoin holders, produced Alpha-chain blocks from height 963,648 on Aug. 23. The permanent fork did not happen: the project's current roadmap ...