Bitcoin at a crossroads: The Canadians who may have saved the virtual currency — or ruined itAt 3:30 a.m. in a hotel conference room in Hong Kong last Sunday, a group of people involved in Bitcoin did something they haven’t done in a while: Come to an agreement.
Samson Mow, the B.C.-born chief operating officer of the Chinese Bitcoin exchange BTCC, had organized the meeting in an attempt to make progress on a technical issue that is tearing the Bitcoin community apart as it becomes more widely used, namely, the underlying software’s questionable capacity to process the growing number of transactions.
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