Bitcoin Exchanges “Seriously Considering” Funding a Competitor – Gavin Andresen
Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation and Lead Developer of Bitcoin until 2014, held an extensive Q&A session with the Chinese bitcoin community yesterday. Answering a range of questions from a diverse array of topics, the session focused on the most pressing issue in bitcoin, transaction capacity. Acknowledging the Beijing meeting between miners and industry in a number of answers, Andresen’s response to what seems to be the biggest worry, the co-existence of two-chains, was: “BIP109 does not hard fork at 75%, it hard forks 28 days after 75% has been reached– so....
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I saw Gavin Andresen throughout the day, mostly while he was giving a presentation. Though I was lucky enough to sit down with Gavin and Mike (Hearn) during lunch. However their 'tech speak' went a bit over my head while I quietly observed and ate the delicious dinner that had been prepared by the venue. It was not until the Blockchain.info after-party that I managed to get Gavin on his own for a little while for a chat and an interview. What do you hope the audience got from your presentation? Gavin Andresen: "Whenever I do a presentation, I'm hoping that I don't bore them, hoping that I....
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In a recent blog post to GavinTech, Gavin Andresen admitted that he has recently been thinking about ethereum "a bit." Ethereum is a Bitcoin 2.0 project that is creating "a revolutionary new platform for applications." Vitalik Buterin, one of ethereum's founders, was recently awarded the Thiel Fellowship, a $100,000 fellowship awarded to 20 bright entrepreneurs around the world under the age of 20. Gavin revealed that he thinks some parts of ethereum, such as the new proof-of-work and new currency, are needlessly re-engineered while admitting particular interest in the development of smart....
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