Bitcoin drops SegWit2x hard fork after community objects ...

Bitcoin's contentious upgrade plan, known as SegWit2x, has been called off, sending the cryptocurrency price past $7,800 - an all-time high - and then down several hundred dollars as profit taking set it.

Mike Belshe, CEO of Bitgo, a Silicon Valley blockchain security biz, announced the decision via a post to the Bitcoin-SegWit2x mailing list.

"Although we strongly believe in the need for a...

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IBM open sources its blockchain code – the non-crazy part ...

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IBM has open sourced a significant chunk of the blockchain code it has been working on, putting its weight behind the Linux Foundation and its Hyperledger project .

Big Blue has dumped the Apache 2.0-licensed source on GitHub , providing a limited but functional dev environment to build on. The IT giant has pledged to maintain the code as others build on top of it, including big-name...

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