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Why the Great Firewall of China Is Causing Serious Issues for Bitcoin Miners

What’s wrong with increasing the block size limit? This is the question that a portion of the Bitcoin community has been asking almost nonstop...

Coinomi Founder John Jegutanis: Scale Bitcoin by Decreasing Latency

John Jegutanis, co-founder of bitcoin and altcoin mobile walletCoinomi, recently proposed the concept of ”Soft Blocks“ to help scale Bitcoin. Soft Blocks, Jegutanis says,...

Bitcoin Wallet Developer Andreas Schildbach: I Will Not Invest My Time in Lightning Networks

Rather than relying on additional layers built on top of the blockchain, developer Andreas Schildbach believes the network should be designed to scale “on-chain”, too.

BTCC COO Samson Mow: Without Consensus on Block-size Limit, Stakeholders Might Implement an Increase

BTCC Chief Operating Officer Samson Mow indicated that the leading Chinese mining pool and exchange supports an incremental increase of Bitcoin's block-size limit to...

Ciphrex’s Eric Lombrozo: There Is No ‘December Deadline’

The long-lasting block-size dispute seems to be inching toward a climax. A large segment of Bitcoin's academic and engineering community has been discussing the...

Gavin Andresen Explains Why He Prefers BIP 101 Over BIP 100

There have been a few proposals to increase the maximumblocksize in Bitcoin over the past year, but the two plans that are garnering the...

Bitcoin Mining Titan BitFury: No to BIP 101, Yes to Block-size Consensus

In anticipation of the Scaling Bitcoin Hong Kong workshop on the 6th and 7th of this month, BitFury has re-established its belief...

MultiBit’s Jim Burton: Satoshi’s Vision of a Peer-to-Peer Currency Needs Bigger Blocks

Jim Burton, the British lead developer of “lightweight” Bitcoin client MultiBit, favors a rapid block-size increase in order to allow for more transactions on...

GreenAddress: Increasing Bitcoin’s Block-size Limit is not Scaling; it’s Pivoting

Bitcoin wallet provider GreenAddress was always critical of raising Bitcoin's block-size limit. As one of the first in the space in May of this...

Bitcoin Mining Pool F2Pool (Discus Fish) Maintains: BIP 101 Not an Option

F2Pool, the world's largest Bitcoin mining pool, maintains that changing its code to allow bigger blocks through BIP 101 or Bitcoin XT is not...
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