Antonopoulos: Bitcoin Will Have Hard Fork Eventually
Popular Bitcoin entrepreneur has shared his stance on the scaling issue and a looming intentional Bitcoin hard fork according to a published transcript of a Q&A session with the Chinese Bitcoin community on 8btc on Saturday July 30. Andreas Antonopoulos was responding to several questions including one on the negative impacts the controversies regarding the scaling could cast on the long-term value proposition and investor confidence in Bitcoin. He says: “Development of bitcoin is accelerating. The number of new features, improvements and innovations is increasing all the time. Scaling....
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