Forks

Bitcoin Cash isn’t normally thought of as a token platform, but a recent development might bring new tokenized assets to the fourth-most valuable blockchain. CoinGeek has announced the winners of its tokenization contest, potentially…

Hard forks are tense times for any protocol. Blockchain updates need to be implemented seamlessly and harmoniously. Not all work, but the upcoming Bitcoin Cash fork is doing the opposite. Prices are on the rise as investors turn their…

Hard forks litter cryptocurrency. Not all are destructive, but those that make the news are the community disagreements that create irrecoverable splits. Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC); Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH);…

News that the new Ethereum (ETH) system update would go to testnet at the beginning of October caused a slight recovery for the Ether price at the end of last week. From $170 at the beginning of Wednesday, ETH reached above $200 by early…

Does anybody remember 2013, when Bitcoin developers introduced, and then rolled, back a buggy hard fork? It was the beginning of a chapter in cryptocurrency history that will be remembered as the era of forks and altcoins. The world did…

At 5:22 UTC on October 16, block 4,370,000 was mined and added to the Ethereum blockchain, officially activating the Byzantium hard fork, an upgrade to the Ethereum software. Developers celebrated the highly-anticipated release, but many…