[2018-04-05] Mike Hearn: Bitcoin Cash “nowhere near radical enough"

[PR-Person]

One of the earliest Bitcoin developers, Mike Hearn, held an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit earlier today. Among other responses to the public AMA session, Hearn felt that Bitcoin Cash (BCH) was “nowhere near radical enough” as an alternative to Bitcoin. He further recommended that challengers to the world’s most used cryptocurrency “be willing to think radical, even heretical thoughts.”.

Hearn also expressed “alarm” at Bitcoin Cash’s planned hard fork, cautioning against a move without any “attempt to measure support or whether people are ready or even agree”.

Nevertheless, the former Bitcoin developer said that both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash held some interest for him. He said, “Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash show that disagreements can be ongoing and coexistent…  I’m interested enough to support (hold both coins) through the hardfork and still today.”.

To read more: http://bitcoinnews.com/bitcoin-ex-dev-mike-hearn-says-bitcoin-cash-nowhere-near-radical-enough/

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[Umkar]

We see, especially lately, that bitcoin is not an ideal digital coin. Bitcoin needs constant improvement and one of the options for such improvement is the branching off of it of new coins, such as bitcoin in cash. Of course, not all new coins have been and will be successful, but this is one of the ways to develop the crypto currency. Especially a lot of such branches are carried out this year. Only among their competition there can be something unique.

[hatshepsut93]

Sounds like Mike Hearn wants to see some gigabyte blocks, because it's pretty obvious from some simple calculations that 8MB blocks of Bcash doesn't not achieve any notable scalability. So far Bcash community doesn't have a clear roadmap for their own scalability solution - one part thinks that they should use Lightning Network, which is funny because they also preach that it's a bankster's conspiracy,  while the other part wants gigabyte blocks. We might see a split in the future were there will be 2 Bcash coins with different roadmaps.