http://motherboard.vice.com/read/heres-what-the-hell-happened-in-bitcoin-in-2015Big article, good stuff, guys.
THERE WAS BASICALLY A CIVIL WAR OVER A CODE CHANGE
It all started in December of 2014, when longtime Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen proposed a change to Bitcoin’s code. The change was intended to help the network handle its anticipated growth by, essentially, increasing the size of the “blocks” of data that get uploaded to the blockchain, the publicly viewable ledger at the heart of Bitcoin.
