Block Size Survey Reveals ‘Deep Divide’ Between Bitcoin Subreddits
Amid the ongoing block size debate, Bitcoin Association Switzerland has published a rare survey – which gauges sentiment on potential solutions to Bitcoin’s biggest headache. The board president of the group, which describes itself as formed of “enthusiasts,” published his findings on Bitcointalk Monday. 269 respondents answered to questions posed in the....
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The founder of the Bitcoin Association Switzerland, Luzius Meisser, recently released the results of a block size survey he conducted. He wanted to test the differences in which entrepreneurial and technical mindsets viewed the block size problem. His hypothesis stated that entrepreneurs likely favor larger blocks than those of a technical mindset. “And the answer seems yes.” Of 269 respondents, 146 preferred a block size between 0.5 MB and unlimited, with most preferring more than 4GB. Meisser determines this is because he received more responses from r/btc readers than /r/bitcoin....
Over the past few weeks, community-driven Bitcoin statistics and services provider Coin Dance conducted a survey to analyze the stance of the Bitcoin community on the Bitcoin block size debate. Approximately 64% of Bitcoin users that participated in the survey voted for the increase of the block size limit. Scaling the Bitcoin network. Since the Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus in Hong Kong held in February 2016, a lot of Bitcoin users, miners, companies, and investors have demanded for the increase of the Bitcoin block size. Miners and companies that participated in the Hong Kong conference....
Bitcoin Core contributor and Ciphrex CEO Eric Lombrozo was recently interviewed on Epicenter Bitcoin, and he used a portion of his time to explain some misconceptions and misunderstandings related to the block size limit debate. While the focus of this development controversy has mainly centered on the actual block size metric in the Bitcoin protocol, Lombrozo says this misses the main point of disagreement. In his view, a hard fork is what the Bitcoin Core development community would like to avoid over the short term. When explaining the full picture of the block size debate, Lombrozo....
CCN reached out to the Bitcoin Community via various sources, including Reddit, BitcoinTalk, and our own contacts, in order to gauge the sentiment of the Bitcoin Community in survey form. Included are our answers. Of the more than 130 people who took our survey, 56.3% believed that Bitcoin should use Bitcoin-XT. 81.6% believe the block size limit should be increased, assuming nobody believes it should be decreased. As far as the amount of influence Bitcoin developers have over the Bitcoin software, many showed signs of uneasiness. More than 50% claim the debate and divisiveness over....
This week, bitcoin Jesus Roger Ver weighed in on the block size debate stating that the block size limit should be increased if it is technologically achievable. Specifically, Ver tweeted: The block size debate has been underway for some time now and a lot of developers including Bitcoin Core Developers and the Bitcoin community are getting exasperated with the current impasse. In addition, many developers are now spending a lot of time and money seeking alternative solutions. If every 1MB block were always full, it would take over 55 years to fill my new HD. Let's raise the block size....