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When Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the first version of Bitcoin, i.e., the Bitcoin 0.1 on January 9, 2009, little did he know that his white paper on peer to peer electronic cash system would be standing on the cusp of changing the way world dealt with money. Bitcoin Core Background In...

The Bitcoin Cash team recently announced a new fork that will replace Segwit for a new scalable method capable of making the blocksize adjustable. On August 20, 2018, Bitcoin Cash announced the release of Bitcoin ABC 0.18.0. With this new implementation, Bitcoin Cash is aiming to create an easy-to-use currency...

On June 26, 2018, privacy-centric protocol Zcash will undergo its first hard-fork. The upgrade is named “Overwinter” and takes place at block 347,500 assuming a hash rate of 150 seconds per block. Setting the Foundation According to a Zcash Foundation post on the development, the hard fork serves to fortify...