Kevin Roose and Casey Newton are the hosts of The Times’s “Hard Fork” podcast. They recorded this conversation (which has ...

A blockchain hard fork is a change in programming that is incompatible with the old programming. This essentially creates a new blockchain, and sometimes a new cryptocurrency. Hard forks generally ...

Investors must track hard fork developments to manage changes in their crypto assets. Understanding hard forks helps investors handle risks and opportunities in crypto investing. A “hard fork ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the tax treatment of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. UPDATE: In the absence of guidance from the IRS and in ...

Hard forks are supposed to be rare, but the next Bitcoin hard fork, scheduled for Oct. 25, 2017, will be the second one this year... There was a hard fork that created Bitcoin Cash on Aug. 1 ...

A Bitcoin hard fork is a protocol change that creates a new set of rules for the computers that make up the blockchain network. If a hard fork is implemented without the complete agreement of ...

But what are they? Why are they such a big deal? And what is the difference between a hard fork and a soft fork? A “fork,” in programming terms, is an open-source code modification.

A group of Bitcoin companies plans to deploy a hard fork to double Bitcoin’s block weight limit to eight megabytes this November. Known as “SegWit2x,” this incompatible protocol change follows from ...

In case there were any remaining doubts, it now seems clear that the SegWit2x hard fork will not happen. Further, software bugs in the btc1 codebase made all btc1 implementations grind to a halt even ...

After recording about 90 episodes of “Hard Fork,” a weekly New York Times podcast about technology and business, life is much the same for its hosts, Kevin Roose and Casey Newton. That is ...