Bitcoin Blocksize Debate to Continue at DevCore with Garzik, Andresen, Antonopoulos and others
Bitcoin luminaries Gavin Andresen, Andreas Antonopoulos, Matt Corallo, Jeff Garzik, Charlie Lee, Greg Maxwell, and Michael Perklin are among the speakers appearing at this Friday's DevCore conference at Draper University in San Mateo, California. Organized by the Bitcoin Foundation, the conference is principally designed to be a learning and development....
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There have been a few proposals to increase the maximum blocksize in Bitcoin over the past year, but the two plans that are garnering the most attention right now are Jeff Garzik's BIP 100 and Gavin Andresen's BIP 101. While Andresen has already implemented his plan in BitcoinXT, Garzik is still working on a formal write-up and the code for BIP 100. Andresen shared his thoughts on BIP 100 via an interview on Epicenter Bitcoin. Although he did not seem completely dismissive of the proposal, it's clear that he would prefer to go with his own idea for increasing the blocksize, which would....
In the midst of Bitcoin’s price rise and the dramatic flash crash of DAO and Ether, Core developer Gavin Andresen took to Reddit voicing his support for an unlimited blocksize increase. Blocksize Increase: ‘Nothing Bad Will Happen’. The comments were made in response to concerns about an increase to 2MB by longstanding r/btc subreddit user u/Pool30. “I....
Bitcoin never had a clear future, but it looks even cloudier in the midst of the unpleasant, yet weirdly magnetic, blocksize debate. The debate, which eats up /r/Bitcoin, has led to the meta question of Bitcoin “governance” - a buzzword that sums up the question: What happens when developers and stakeholders don't agree? What's the best process to address this? Gavin Andresen, who has a unique perspective on the topic as Bitcoin's former lead developer, joined Epicenter Bitcoin for a conversation on just that. The podcast took on the meta-meta-question of defining “governance” and zeroing....
Bitcoin enthusiasts can catch DevCore Boston's inaugural roundtables via livestream from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time tomorrow, Feb. 11, at District Hall, 75 Northern Ave. in Boston, Mass. Tomorrow's event begins a series of DevCore Boston roundtables sponsored by Bitcoin Foundation for developers interested in deepening their technical expertise to support the future development of Bitcoin Core. The organizers developed the roundtables to build knowledge, widen understanding and deepen technical expertise to support the future development of Bitcoin Core. Attend via....
It's no secret that social networking website Reddit is a hub for many in the bitcoin community. While some bitcoiners may stick strictly to the r/bitcoin subreddit, there's another part of Reddit that has become famous in its own right: 'Ask Me Anything' (AMA) threads. AMAs are great opportunities for anyone with an interesting story - ranging from Barack Obama to Bill Gates - to field questions from the community of redditors and provide candid responses that often can't be found in the traditional press release culture of mainstream media. A number of prominent figures in the bitcoin....