Bitcoin Mining Titan BitFury: No to BIP 101, Yes to Block-size Consensus
In anticipation of the Scaling Bitcoin Hong Kong workshop on the 6th and 7th of this month, BitFury has re-established its belief that the current 1 megabyte block-size limit must be changed only if agreed upon by consensus. The largest mining pool outside of China, controlling some 15 percent of hashing power on the Bitcoin network, maintains that it....
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The best-capitalised mining firm in bitcoin has waded into the block size debate - stating it must be resolved by consensus. BitFury, previously silent on the hot-button issue, said it will join bitcoin's biggest mining pool in backing Jeff Garzik's "market-led" BIP 100 proposal, which lets miners 'vote' on the size of each block. CEO Valery Vavilov told CoinDesk: "We think that the block size debate must be resolved by consensus and the voting mechanism introduced in BIP 100 is a good way to achieve such a consensus ... The power to make such future defining decisions must belong to the....
Bitcoin Core developers and leading mining firms have come to a consensus on the block size debate. On February 21, 2016, representatives of the Bitcoin industry and Bitcoin Core developers have finally come to a consensus to settle the never-ending block size debate. The meeting was participated by Bitcoin Core developers and representatives of leading bitcoin mining firms and exchanges including Antpool, BitFury, Bitmain, Bit-X, Blockcloud, BTCC, BW, Coinfloor F2Pool, Genesis Mining, HaoBTC, Huobi, Ledger, OKCoin and Spoodoolies-Tech. All representatives of the abovementioned companies....
Three of the biggest Western mining pools – representing a total of some 19% of hashing power on the Bitcoin network – stand divided on raising the block size limit. An inquiry by CoinTelegraph has shown that both KnCMiner and Slush Pool are in favor of Gavin Andresen's proposal(s) to raise this limit. But the biggest of the three, BitFury, is more conservative. As such, a network-wide switch to Bitcoin XT to allow for bigger blocks seems even more unlikely, for now. Lacking consensus among Core developers on how and when to raise the block size limit, former lead developer Gavin Andresen....
Bitcoin mining company BitFury’s CEO Valery Vavilov has been clear on the company’s stance in the Bitcoin block size debate. When we contacted him for his thoughts on the debate, Valery sent a full statement detailing where BitFury stood on the issue and why. While going over this statement with BitFury, they gave us access to the news of their new 16nm chip announcement. The timing of this release follows its climb to the second largest hash rate provider in the world. Furthermore, BitFury is aggressively building out its 100 MW data center in Georgia. Valery’s well thought out statement....
Leading Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company BitFury has announced their support for 2 megabyte block size increase with Bitcoin Classic. As the world’s largest mining pools, companies, and experts are beginning to strongly engage in the implementation of Bitcoin Classic, the community predicts the majority of miners to support the 2 megabyte proposal in the upcoming weeks. “BitFuryGroup – the largest private miner and security provider is ready to move forward and support 2MB increase with Bitcoin Classic,” announced BitFury Group co-founder and....