Bitcoin Market Needs Big Blocks, Says Founder of BTC.TOP Mining Pool
Jiang Zhuoer, a former employee at China Mobile in Shanghai, the world’s largest mobile phone operator, where he led a 13-men team working on Data Warehouse and Big Data before establishing BTC.TOP, a new bitcoin mining pool that has suddenly shot to around 8% of the network’s hashrate, tells CCN in an interview: “The market needs big blocks. If Core doesn’t want to (or can’t) give it, the market will take it by itself. No one can go against the market, unless he can show more money.” Zhuoer, who speaks in broken English, therefore his quotes have only cosmetically been modified to make....
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