Out with the old, in with the new chain. On November 17, 2019, David Akers published via Twitter his article entitled “No Sunshine, No Rainbows”. In said article, he declared that “a number of coins have been introduced into the circulating supply above and beyond what is expected from mining alone.” He estimated that around 1.2m …

The Second Coming It’s time! The last few weeks have been interesting to say the least, but we are happy to announce that the Algo Change has been completed and will activate at Block 618,000. Warm up your rigs! We will switch to Equihash 192,7 with a personalisation string BTCP_PoW…

The long awaited BTCP software update is ready! Our devs have been beavering away into the wee small hours trying to prepare for the difficulty bomb that would render the BTCP chain dead at block 600,000. As previously described the plan was to address three key areas. 1. The difficulty bomb 2…

As we are all painfully aware, the Sapling upgrade that is being developed to close the vulnerability announced earlier this year by the Zcash foundation has been stalled for some time. Due to the uniqueness of the BTCP code and its integration with Bitcoin functionality the changes required to implement…

THE BTCP TREASURY AND COMMUNITY IN ACTION New Treasury team, wallets and initiatives. As previously announced, we have a new treasury team in place which consists of the following BTCP Community Members: ● Jay Pujanes ● David Akers ● Matt Pass ● Justin Bruce ● Daniele “Robotica” Monteleone We would…

Below you will find an update to the Bitcoin Private treasury. We are also excited to announce that the Treasury has undergone a successful transition and has appointed new Treasurers. The decision was made after careful deliberation to determine which members of the Bitcoin Private community were best qualified to not only act in the best interest of the community and project as a whole, but whom were also capable of valuable contributions necessary to bring the BTCP project into the next stage of its development.

Bitcoin Private has seen quite a lot of activity in a number of areas over the last 3 weeks so we felt it was a good time to summarize the happenings for everyone. Let’s get straight to the info… Coinburn — block 480,000 (Feb 16th/17th 2019) There’s a little more…

Community, The Bitcoin Private January 2019 hard fork occurred at block 455500 (~5 am EST) on Jan 5, 2019. We are happy to announce the hard fork was successful and would like to summarize the results. 1) At the time of Coinmetrics’ report, around 20.84 million coins were in the…

Community, Since the report from CoinMetrics showing that a bad actor exploited a vulnerability in the BTCP fork mine code, we have been hard at work trying to mitigate the damage. In our official response, we suggested that BTCP could hard fork to remove all shielded coins in existence as…