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The block size debate is among the most contentious discourse in Bitcoin, having spawned numerous community rifts and contested proposals.
1276 Bitcoin’s scaling crisis was one of several things Satoshi and earlier Bitcoiners never anticipated. Here’s how that 1 MB blocksize limit got put there.
55886A Bitcoin fork means a “likely” loss of value, an investment source has said, regardless whether it is hard or soft.
26134Lightning Network payment channels will likely only compete with traditional processors when worth over $150, Ryan X. Charles has calculated.
10994Detractors are coming out among members of Barry Silbert’s SegWit activation meeting, including Bitcoin.com’s Roger Ver.
13582Bitcoin scaling solution consensus has been reached among key industry players. SegWit and 2MB block size increase to be implemented.
26431Antpool, Bitcoin’s largest mining pool, has begun mining blocks supporting Bitcoin Unlimited, cementing deadlock in the scaling debate as transaction issues worsen.
2395Bitcoin’s unprocessed transaction pool size spiked again last week, prompting fears the network is nearing operational capacity.
1350Bitcoin Unlimited blocks mined have reached a new high, passing SegWit and indicating that a hard fork may be just around the corner.
2751Roger Ver, the owner of Bitcoin.com, believes that there is good reason to think that 2017 will be the best year for Bitcoin.
2260What if you could add almost 2500 transactions a second to the Bitcoin protocol without the major network changes required by SegWit and Lightning?
2085Bitcoin’s scaling issues have long caused a deep divide within the community as well as transaction delays. Unfortunately, there is a human cost to these delays.
1332Chandler Guo, a known Bitcoin and Ethereum startups investor, compares Bitcoin with Trump, Ether with Hillary and suggests block size could be raised to avoid a war and losses.
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