Bitcoin Miners Back Proposed Timeline for 2017 Hard Fork
A group of bitcoin miners constituting close to 80% of the network hashrate, as well representatives from exchanges, service providers and contributors to the Bitcoin Core development project, have proposed a development timeline for scaling the bitcoin network. The statement’s release comes after a more than 18 hour-long meeting in Hong Kong that drew participants from China's bitcoin mining community and members of the Bitcoin Core team. Some of the letter's signatories were party to a previous statement that voiced opposition to any “contentious hard fork” to the bitcoin network.....
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