Bitcoin feud over expansion threatens to destabilize currencyhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bitcoin-dispute-blocksize-1.3444194Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that has earned legions of fans and has often been touted as the future of money, is in danger of having no future at all.
A rift within the peer-to-peer network of users and software developers that operate the bitcoin system has prompted one of its senior developers and most ardent proponents, Mike Hearn, to sell all his bitcoin and pull out of the existing network, which is run on a consensus basis and not overseen by any central authority.
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