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Title: [2017-03-04] Chinese Miners Worried About a User-Activated Fork
Post by: TwoTimes on March 04, 2017, 05:24:02 PM
This past week a new idea has been brought to the table concerning the block size debate. Over the past few months, Segregated Witness (Segwit), a proposal that requires 95 percent of miner support, has been stagnant – barely reaching a quarter of the threshold. Now a pseudonym dubbed “shaolinfry” has introduced another method to activate without miner approval. However, the procedure is controversial to certain figures within the bitcoin community.

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