F2Pool Welcomes Bitcoin Classic Hard Forking Solution But Does Not Actively Support it
There's no denying the Bitcoin block size will need to be increased, as even the Chinese mining pools are in agreement with that statement. Whether this will happen through a hard fork or soft fork, remains to be seen, though.The ongoing Bitcoin block size debate is causing a fair bit of controversy and concern within and outside of the Bitcoin community. Even though everybody wants to see an overwhelming consensus support for either Bitcoin Core or Bitcoin Classic, a lot of the “voting power” lies with the Chinese mining pools. Whereas a few people misinterpreted support for Bitcoin....
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The ongoing Bitcoin block size debate has been a source for a fair bit of controversy and discussion in recent months, but it finally looks like a decision is just around the corner. With Bitcoin Core having to address some security concerns regarding segwit, and Bitcoin Classic going into beta testing today, developers are off to the races to compile a properly secured block size solution. Antpool is upping the game by announcing beta testing of Bitcoin Classic. Antpool Starts Bitcoin Classic Beta Trial. It was only a matter of time until the Bitcoin Classic proposal started showing what....
The future of Bitcoin development has taken an interesting turn in the past 24, as the Bitcoin Core developers and close to 80% of the network mining power – read: pool operators – have agreed on hard forking Bitcoin. Such a magnanimous event is a world’s first for the bitcoin ecosystem; a shard forking has been out of the question up until now. But what will this agreement do for Bitcoin Classic? Such an agreement would prevent this alternative solution from reaching its activation point. While a solution to the seemingly infinite Bitcoin block size debate is very positive for the future....
Just because mining pools give individual miners the ability to choose Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin classic, does not mean they will be switching over in droves all of a sudden. That statement is only reinforced by the F2Pool mining statistics, as only a small portion of miners have diverted their hashpower to Bitcoin Classic. This begs the question as to whether Bitcoin miners care enough about the difference between both solutions to risk their steady earnings or not. Bitcoin Miners Are Not Too Bothered. Reaching a consensus on whether or not to implement the Bitcoin Classic block size....
Up until this point, FinCEN has clearly defined projects related to digital currency and Bitcoin do not fall in the same category as prepaid access sellers or providers. The Bitcoin Classic hard fork solution could lead to legal trouble down the line. Or that was the assumption at least, even though no one was able to confirm this statement at that time. An interesting question was raised, though, and the answer will put a lot of people’s mind at ease: the current FinCEN guidelines will not get developers in legal trouble. Most of this discussion started from the point of view that hard....
The Bitcoin block size debate has taken another interesting plot twist in the past few hours. F2Pool, one of the largest Chinese Bitcoin mining pools in the world, has announced they support the hard fork for an increased 2MB block size. While the post on BitcoinTalk is a weird translation from Chinese to English, it looks like F2Pool might be attempting to push people to accept the Bitcoin hard fork. Not a great move in the Bitcoin mining industry if this were to be the case. F2Pool Statement is Quite Worrying To Say The Last. Certain aspects of a statement can tend to get lost in....