Gavin Andresen: "Bitcoin is in Serious Trouble"
A few months ago, Bitcoin core developer Gavin Andresen proposed an alternative version of bitcoin software called BitcoinXT and urged the community and bitcoin miners to transfer from the bitcoin core. However, "critics" and cryptocurrency researchers including Mircea Popescu, Pete Duschenski and Nick Szabo stated that Andresen's version of bitcoin and the expansion of the block size would make bitcoin more vulnerable, as it would require more hashing power to secure the block chain. Regardless of the criticism, Andresen and several prominent bitcoin startups and investors believe that....
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AMA in progress: Link. It was just about a week ago when the Bitcoin Foundation announced a Reddit AMA series in the spirit of transparency (AMA stands for "ask me anything"). The idea, as you might have already guessed, is designed to give the bitcoin community easy access to asking questions to some of the well-known entities at the Foundation. Last week, the first to be asked questions by the community was Jim Harper, who serves as Global Policy Counsel at the Foundation. This week, someone else it up, and that someone is Gavin Andresen. Andresen serves as "Chief Scientist" at the....