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  Armory is an open-source wallet management app specifically for Bitcoin. It supports SegWit or Segregated Witness to deal with the scalability issue of Bitcoins network. Armory contradicts hard forks that counter the original Blockchain. It can organize the change and apply a migration tool for another wallet that supports the change. Armory Wallet is not conducting consensus assessments because […]

Cryptocurrencies are expected to become a mainstream payment solution within the next decade, a new research has proposed. The paper argues that cryptocurrencies are already fulfilling one of the three functions of money – they are acting as a store of value – and that it is only a matter of time before they begin to fulfill the other two. […]

At the beginning of the year, economic analysts from all around the world, alongside with members of the digital currency community, tend to make predictions in regards to what will happen during the following year. The beginning of 2017 has seen a wide array of interesting predictions, some of which are bound to become true given the continuous evolution of […]

Nayib Bukele believes that Bitcoin will hit $100,000 this year despite markets having closed with their heads hanging in 2021. According to a Sunday tweet, the El Salvador president shared a list of predictions regarding the nascent cryptocurrency, rekindling the expectancy of Bitcoiners. Despite hopes that the cryptocurrency could hit a six-figure price tag running high especially during the first […]

The status of bitcoin in China is still quite unclear, considering the fact that there is indeed some regulation, yet it is not being applied. During the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen a sharp growth, followed by a short decrease in the value of the digital currency. Economic analysts have attributed this to the falling strength of the Chinese […]

A majority of miners have started showing their preference for SegWit2x, a version of Segregated Witness that’s deviating from what Core developers envision to be the solution to bitcoin’s scaling issue. But what is it and what’s leading bitcoin to it? Recent events have led to increased demand for a solution to bitcoin’s scaling issue. With bitcoin blocks getting filled […]

There’ve been several reports covering the fact that Russia has been trying to develop a bill  meant to regulate digital currencies, yet nothing has been released so far. In fact, the Russian Ministry of Finance has recently sent out a press statement, saying that their introduction for a cryptocurrency regulation bill may be delayed until the next year. Not only […]

The very basis of bitcoin transactions – the blockchain – has always relied on miner confirmations to determine whether a bitcoin transfer was indeed valid. For most bitcoin users, confirmations are essential to prevent double-spending, a scam where one bitcoin is spent at two different places at the same time. For the most part, this verification system is highly reliable, […]