[2015-05-20] WSJ: Heated Debate Over Software Change Shows Bitcoin’s Governance

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Heated Debate Over Software Change Shows Bitcoin’s Governance Challenge

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/05/20/bitbeat-heated-debate-over-software-change-shows-bitcoins-governance-challenge/

Ask people on the street what they think of Gavin Andresen’s proposal to raise bitcoin’s block size limit and you’ll almost certainly get a nonplussed look.

But inside bitcoinland, the lead developer’s plan to alter the data capacity for the 10-minute batches of transactions that form the digital currency’s core blockchain ledger is as hotly contested as any it has seen. And this a community accustomed to contentious debates.