Rising Demand in China, Other Asian Countries May Push Bitcoin to $5000 by Aug. 30

Aug 16, 2017

There are about 15 more days left in the month of August 2017 and Bitcoin price seems to continue recovering from the stunted growth it has seen since the scaling issue heated up earlier this year. After the split of Bitcoin Cash BCH and the issue of the uncertainty - and its debate tra...

If Not Bitcoin Cash, Could Bitcoin Kill Litecoin?

Aug 14, 2017

Recent discussions about the SegWit activation and the Lightning Network implementation it would bring to the Bitcoin network has sparked a round of debate on whether it would reduce Litecoin’s relevance and value in the market. This has been compounded by the fact that recently, also, ther...

Litecoin Community Member PZ Shares the Story Behind Litecoin’s Segwit Activation

May 15, 2017

Segwit, an upgrade originally developed for Bitcoin, is activated on Litecoin on May 10. Prior to this, Litecoin’s scaling debate had been dragging on for weeks and it was unclear whether segwit would be activated in the end. What happened? What made Chinese miners change their mind? You ...

SegWit Date, MAST On Litecoin… Can LTC Gain Momentum?

May 2, 2017

Litecoin miners, pools and exchanges have been informed to prepare for the pending CSV and SegWit activation. The date has been confirmed in a note issued by Bitcoin Core contributor, Johnson Lau for around May ­11 at block 1,201,536. It could also happen earlier depending on hashrate....

SegWit Confirms On Litecoin In 2 Weeks, LTC Could Hit $25

Apr 25, 2017

After much hassle, it has now been confirmed that the SegWit protocol will be activated on the Litecoin network by mid-May. Its founder, Charlie Lee, confirmed in a tweet that SegWit will lock in and activate at the end of period 7 which he later clarified will fall in May. Though th...

Litecoin Global Roundtable Resolution 001 (2017)

Apr 22, 2017

1. This Global LTC Roundtable Meeting is established to remove misunderstandings and promote industrial consensus. Participating members agree to abide by the results of the vote. 2. We agree that protocol upgrade should be made under community consensus, and should not be unilateral actio...

Why I Am Still Not Voting for Segwit? An open letter from Jiangzhuoer

Apr 20, 2017

Note:Translated from Jiang Zhuo’er’s original post in Chinese. Recently, as the discussion around activating Segwit on Litecoin becomes more and more intense, many people have been asking me why my Litecoin pool is not voting for Segwit. I feel the need to address the whole Segwit iss...

F2Pool Officially Decides to Support SegWit on Bitcoin

Apr 18, 2017

F2Pool, the world’s second largest mining pool, released an announcement this Tuesday signaling SegWit(Segregated Witness )for bitcoin. F2Pool's stance on SegWit has been ambiguous over the past several weeks. On March 22, Wang Chun, the owner of F2Pool, wrote across social medi...

Communication is key not to risk privatising Bitcoin network, Bitcoin Foundation head reiterates

Mar 27, 2017

As Virgilio Lizardo Jr., the Vice President of International Affairs at Bitbank Group earlier noted in an interview with 8btc.com, a lack of proper communication between Bitcoin stakeholders has again popped up as a key factor that could have changed the course of the lingering debate on ...

Bitcoin scaling: SegWit, User Activated Soft Forks and Bitcoin splitting in two

Mar 6, 2017

Bitcoin scalability issues continue to generate controversies spanning across countries and continents from China to the US and from Iceland to Japan. Many individual Bitcoin users have now joined in the controversy by airing their views and participating in other ways to make their voices h...