BitFury’s Vavilov Has A Solution For Block Size Challenge, Rebuts Bitcoin Naysayers
Valery Vavilov, CEO of Bitfury, believes there is a solution to the current bitcoin block size challenge. In a recent video interview at TC Davos, he explained his solution and he also expounded on his belief in the future of bitcoin, taking issue with those who are proclaiming its demise. The solution to bitcoin’s block size challenge is to increase the current one-megabyte “block” to two megabytes, Vavilov said. He acknowledges the need to increase the bitcoin blockchain’s scalability, and he envisions a great future for bitcoin in improving its scalability. He gave his insights during....
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Bitcoin mining company BitFury’s CEO Valery Vavilov has been clear on the company’s stance in the Bitcoin block size debate. When we contacted him for his thoughts on the debate, Valery sent a full statement detailing where BitFury stood on the issue and why. While going over this statement with BitFury, they gave us access to the news of their new 16nm chip announcement. The timing of this release follows its climb to the second largest hash rate provider in the world. Furthermore, BitFury is aggressively building out its 100 MW data center in Georgia. Valery’s well thought out statement....
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