Gavin Andresen Requests Feedback for His Version of BIP-102

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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