A Controversial Bitcoin Alternative is Seeking a Comeback
A controversial bitcoin alternative may be making a comeback. With such a large community, bitcoin has perhaps inevitably seen disagreement about its future development. Having launched earlier this year, Bitcoin Unlimited grew out of an active movement to quickly pick up bitcoin's userbase by increasing the block size, or a hardcoded limit on the number of transactions that the network can process per block. This is a contentious change that many Bitcoin Core developers don't support. But while its developers were quiet for a while, the alternative bitcoin implementation has seen a....
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