Should ViaBTC Stop Opposing Segregated Witness for Bitcoin Scaling?
When asked why they do not increase the 100 tx limit, ViaBTC replied how they need the fee to make this service possible. The ViaBTC Transaction Accelerator has proven to be quite a successful service over the past few months. One downside to this system is how only 100 transactions can be boosted every single hour. In a recent tweet, the company complains about how they are hitting this glass ceiling nearly every hour. It would be better if such a service is not needed in the first place. The only reason why the ViaBTC Transaction Accelerator is popular is due to recurring network....
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If one proposal excited attendees at the recent Scaling Bitcoin workshop in Hong Kong, Bitcoin Core and Blockstream developer Dr. Pieter Wuille's Segregated Witness was it. Praised by many within the technical community, Segregated Witness is expected to improve Bitcoin's performance in a number of ways, while some even hope it might be the scaling solution that helps bring some peace back to the Bitcoin community. The first and second partsof our three-part Segregated Witness series covered how it works and what it does. In this final part we explore what it means for the block-size dispute.
Overall, the Bitcoin community seems happy about this development, even though it is not exactly news. An exciting development has taken place in the world of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. ViaBTC and Roger Ver have seemingly indicated they are not interested in blocking SegWit. This news came as quite a surprise, as the majority of Bitcoiners seemed to think otherwise. This does not mean SegWit will suddenly get activated on the network overnight either, though. To put this “news” into perspective, neither ViaBTC nor Roger Ver has any interest in blocking SegWit. In fact, they made that....
If one proposal excited attendees at the recent Scaling Bitcoin workshop in Hong Kong, Bitcoin Core and Blockstream developer Dr. Pieter Wuille's Segregated Witness was it. Praised by many within the technical community, Segregated Witness is expected to improve Bitcoin's performance in a number of ways, while some even hope it might be the scaling solution that helps bring some peace back to the Bitcoin community. The first part of our three-part Segregated Witness series covered how it works. In this second part: What it does. Increasing the Effective Block Size Without Increasing the....
If one proposal excited attendees at the recent Scaling Bitcoin workshop in Hong Kong, Bitcoin Core and Blockstream, it was developer Dr. Pieter Wuille's Segregated Witness. Praised by many within the technical community, Segregated Witness is expected to improve Bitcoin's performance in a number of ways, while some even hope it might be the scaling solution that helps bring some peace back to the Bitcoin community. In this first part of Bitcoin Magazine's three-part series on Segregated Witness: how it works. What are Bitcoin transactions again? In order to understand Segregated Witness,....
ViaBTC, which now controls around 15% of the network hashrate in combination with Roger Ver’s Bitcoin Unlimited pool, has called for a hardfork to upgrade bitcoin’s transaction capacity. “Drop the matter of SegWit, let’s hard fork together,” followed by a resounding no to the question of whether there is anything core could do to make ViaBTC support segwit, are just some of the public statements made by the new pool that has suddenly taken the fourth position in network hashrate distribution. I reached out to better understand the seemingly changing alignments in the great debate by asking....