The Bitcoin Round Table States its Case for Core
The Bitcoin Round Table just released an essay proposing five key points for the advancing of bitcoin. Here's what you need to know. The bitcoin block size debate is one that has raged for a considerable amount of time now, and it looks set to continue further. Just yesterday, prominent bitcoin exchange Coinbase revealed it would be running Bitcoin Classic nodes. The announcement was met with a mixed response, slightly weighted to the negative side of things, but perhaps the most interesting response was that of the Bitcoin Round Table via this Medium post, titled “A Call For Consensus”....
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Bitcoin Core contributor, Peter Todd, announced that a hard-fork had been proposed to negate attempts to patent the ASICBoost method. According to a message sent out by Peter, this proposed idea sprang from an agreement made at a Bitcoin-oriented round-table in February. The round-table was attended by a slew of representatives from the Bitcoin development and industry, and focused on a variety of different subjects. The intent of this fork is to make ASIC boost optimisation useless, and ideally the change would be SPV compatible. However, according to Peter, if a change to SPV clients....
Brian Armstrong, the CEO and Founder of Coinbase, in his blog offers an insight into the way Bitcoin Core developers group work against the currently looming doom over the entire Bitcoin network. The bitcoin block size debate is the classic example for the term “running around in circles”. Those of us who have been following thins know very well that the debate about increasing the block size has been going on for almost a year now and yet we do not have any results to show for it. There have been proposals to solve the issue, most of which were never accepted. This prolonged disagreement....