The SegWit2x Hard Fork has been cancelled. This had intended to increase the block size to 2MB while keeping SegWit. With the hard fork that we have just had implementing SegWit, it was an opportunity for a good scaling solution to be implemented, and it was not. They feared a chain split and a divide… (0 comment)
It has happened. The first release of the Lightning Network in alpha stages has been released. This comes at a time when Litecoin has released their latest version which includes the soft fork for SegWit (Segregated Witness) with signalling starting on January 28. F2Pool, which carries around half the Litecoin hashing power is supporting segregated… (0 comment)
F2Pool, which at the time of writing holds just over 40.6% hashrate, a 10% drop in their 50.6%. This is a positive move from F2Pool, which seems committed to the support of Litecoin and Bitcoin to scale, and is intending to support SegWit on Both coins, they have stated about their full support for the… (0 comment)
Charlie Lee, the Litecoin Developer speaks out about Segregated Witness on Litecoin. He has advocated Segwit on both Litecoin and Bitcoin, it fixes problems such as transaction malleability and increases capacity and enables networks such as the Lightning network to be built on top of whatever Bitcoin related currency that implements it. Charlie describes that… (0 comment)
