Gavin Andresen Requests Feedback for His Version of BIP-102
Bitcoin Core developer Gavin Andresen in a recent e-mail has requested constructive feedback for his adaption of BIP-102 from the Bitcoin Community. Block size debate, who is not familiar with it? The arguments are slowly cooling down as most of the Bitcoin community is favoring Bitcoin Classic. Bitcoin Classic proposes an increase of block size from 1 MB to 2 MB to accommodate growing transactions on the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin Classic calls for a hard fork in the blockchain to introduce the change in block size. Recently in an email, Gavin Andresen has called for constructive feedback....
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This situation becomes especially painful when considering how Satoshi Nakamoto himself appointed Gavin Andresen as being the one to take over the “reigns” of Bitcoin development Now that the Craig Wright debacle has calmed down again, there is still the pressing matter of what will happen with Gavin Andresen. After the Bitcoin Core team revoked his commit access, there seems to be no indication of restoring the Bitcoin developer to his precious status. A lot of people were surprised when Gavin Andresen of all people came forward and identified Craig Wright as being Satoshi Nakamoto. Even....
A few months ago, Bitcoin core developer Gavin Andresen proposed an alternative version of bitcoin software called BitcoinXT and urged the community and bitcoin miners to transfer from the bitcoin core. However, "critics" and cryptocurrency researchers including Mircea Popescu, Pete Duschenski and Nick Szabo stated that Andresen's version of bitcoin and the expansion of the block size would make bitcoin more vulnerable, as it would require more hashing power to secure the block chain. Regardless of the criticism, Andresen and several prominent bitcoin startups and investors believe that....
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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....
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....