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Title: [2016-02-12]Community Needs to Become Proficient at Managing Bitcoin Forks
Post by: Scream on February 12, 2016, 02:01:01 AM
As opposing sides in Bitcoin's long-lasting scaling dispute seem to be inching closer, one of the remaining sources of contention is not whether, but how to achieve a small block size bump.
TheBitcoin Core development team wants to increase the maximum block capacity through a Segregated Witness soft fork, which has since been embraced by a large part of Bitcoin’s development community and a significant segment of the Bitcoin industry.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitpay-s-stephen-pair-community-needs-to-become-proficient-at-managing-bitcoin-forks-1455219684