Some time ago @small.minion wanted me to write him something about Hive, why it is better than other chains. Once I started doing the research the answer turned out to not be so obvious. Ultimately we've

After unplanned health related delay here comes third article of the series about recent optimizations that started with pool allocator and followed with comment archive.

This is continuation of previous post about latest optimizations. This article is going to contain description of second optimization listed there - comment archive.

Recently three big ticket items from my dream list for Hive were done. This article highlights first one.

Checkpoint is a configuration option where you can specify id of block that has to match when node is about to process it. If block does not match given id, the node should stop.

New features in 1.27.7 protecting against flood attacks on Hive network for witnesses and node operators.

This is a continuation of discussion with @edicted from comments under that article. While the article itself is not about difference between soft and hard fork, somehow that topic emerged

Some of you might have heard that RC will become part of consensus some time in the future. The plan is to make all necessary changes first, then leave it with no changes for one whole hardfork...

When I read first article of @edicted about conversions, I was sure I have to write detailed description of how it works. However literally as I finished reading I've noticed price of Hive falling on internal

New tool and API calls with data on RC

As everyone knows (or at least should know) it is not that Hive cannot have censorship, but the points of opportunity are decentralized, therefore if there was actual censorship on the platform, it would

As you already know we are having HF27 tomorrow. It contains only two fixes.

The question from title showed up many times recently. If you know the Betteridge's law of headlines then you'd expect the answer to be "no". Well, not this time :o) At least the answer is not

Some of the following changes are very likely possibilities, others might be in the realm of science fiction with strong lean towards the latter. I'll start with the least interesting but more likely,

This article will assume that you've read the previous one. There might not be too many references to it, but since the topic will revolve around the same parts of code, it is safe to assume there will

I thought I'd write something more about one point from @blocktrades recent post because certain aspects of related code were news to me despite them being important. Might be useful to pass that knowledge

Last week I've described how HBD limits work as contribution to discussion about changing their values for Hardfork 26. If you didn't read it, the main points you should know are: there are three limits

Since last point of 25th update of 2021 on BlockTrades work on Hive software gained a lot of attention, I thought it would be nice to sum up current state of the code, that is, how the mechanism in question