Gavin Andresen: Developers Resisting On-Chain Solutions Are ‘Wrong’

Gavin Andresen: Developers Resisting On-Chain Solutions Are ‘Wrong’

Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen has recently expressed a few “thoughts” concerning the happenings at the Satoshi Roundtable. The event held by Bruce Fenton in Florida this year had quite a bit of industry executives and developers in the crowd. In 2015, the Roundtable meeting was a very social function, but this year, Andresen said the block size debate....


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