The Bitcoin Blocksize Debate Has Not Even Fully Begun Yet
The director of international marketing of China’s largest miner HaoBTC spoke with Bitcoin.com following his tweet stating that the Core developers have “won” the Bitcoin blocksize debate. Chinese Miners ‘Fractured’ on Blocksize Issue. Following a petitionary statement to developers to implement the July 2016 hard fork, agreed at the Hong Kong roundtable....
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A mood of resignation prevails across the bitcoin space as a viciously years-long debate that has taken the reputation of so many and the time and focus of all, seemingly, comes to an end. Eric Mu of HaoBTC, one of the most influential, if not the decisive, mining entity in the blocksize debate, stated today that most miners did not care about the blocksize question and those who do can easily collude/conspire, are easily alienated or cajoled or…. much more shockingly, are intimidated. Miners, from remote parts of China, were outed at the “scaling workshop” held during winter 2015 when....
Two weeks ago Ethereum launched Frontier, the first live release of the network. And Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin joined the latest Epicenter Bitcoin podcast episode to discuss where the platform is headed next. But even as the discussion revolved around the much-awaited launch, it kept bouncing back to the developer's thoughts on big picture cryptocurrency questions, including governance (how to reach decisions about protocol changes) and scalability (how the protocol can support many transactions without compromising decentralization). The question of governance has been on people's....
Censorship and disillusionment were two major topics of conversation when Roger Ver and Erik Voorhees met to discuss the future of Bitcoin live this week. Voorhees: Censorship ‘Ridiculous’. The two industry pioneers, who first met in fall 2011 when bitcoin was worth $8, were speaking on a special edition of the Liberty Entrepreneurs Podcast devoted to....
Bitcoin luminaries Gavin Andresen, Andreas Antonopoulos, Matt Corallo, Jeff Garzik, Charlie Lee, Greg Maxwell, and Michael Perklin are among the speakers appearing at this Friday's DevCore conference at Draper University in San Mateo, California. Organized by the Bitcoin Foundation, the conference is principally designed to be a learning and development experience for new developers in the space. Those developers who are interested can also receive accreditation as a Certified Bitcoin Professional from the CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4). "It's very important to increase....
In the midst of Bitcoin’s price rise and the dramatic flash crash of DAO and Ether, Core developer Gavin Andresen took to Reddit voicing his support for an unlimited blocksize increase. Blocksize Increase: ‘Nothing Bad Will Happen’. The comments were made in response to concerns about an increase to 2MB by longstanding r/btc subreddit user u/Pool30. “I....