At the heart of every blockchain network is a “consensus mechanism,” or system of rules designed to align participants in updating the network’s state. From time to time, participants must opt in to a ...
Tim Draper says quantum will hack banks before Bitcoin; crypto is more secure and can hard fork to protect records.
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What is a Fork in Crypto?

Bitcoin Cash (Hard Fork of Bitcoin) In 2017, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) split from Bitcoin (BTC) over debates about scalability solutions and transaction fees. Bitcoin processes only 3-7 transactions per ...
Bitcoin is consolidating between $62,200 and $63,200, up just +0.5% overnight. This move in BTC has traders hoping that a ...
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Zcash (ZEC) activated an emergency hard fork on Wednesday to address a critical bug in its Orchard shielded transaction pool. The vulnerability stemmed from a soundness issue in the zero-knowledge ...
The crypto market showed strength this week, bolstered by investor confidence after the US Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut on Wednesday (September 17) and NVIDIA's (NASDAQ:NVDA) US$5 billion ...
Hard forks and easier access to GPU computing hold the potential to alleviate developers’ work, which can offset the increased complexity of writing code and the ever-growing demand for compute power.
Nearly half of Ethereum's nodes are running out-of-date software resulting in a hard fork that could cause double spends.
The crypto industry and government are engaging one another in various courtrooms to gain an advantage on unresolved crypto tax questions like forks and staking. In this issue, we spotlight an early ...
Cardano's Van Rossem hard fork hit its mainnet decision point on June 15, 2026. Here's what Protocol Version 11 brings to ADA ...