To continue reading this article, please exit incognito mode or log in. Visitors are allowed 3 free articles per month without a subscriptionand private browsing prevents us from counting how many stories you've read. We hope you understand, and consider subscribing for unlimited online access. The way things are going, the digital currency Bitcoin will start to malfunction early next year.
So says Gavin Andresen, media fails in attempt to destroy bitcoin in favor of blockchain in was designated chief caretaker of the code that powers Bitcoin by its shadowy creator. Looking at the transaction volume on the Bitcoin network, we need to address it within the next four or five months. As we get closer and closer to the limit, bad things start to happen.
Networks close to capacity get congested and unreliable. It was a difficult decision. I had to go public and actually release the code and let people essentially vote with their feet.
Some major Bitcoin companies have media fails in attempt to destroy bitcoin in favor of blockchain your proposed way of increasing the block sizemedia fails in attempt to destroy bitcoin in favor of blockchain some miners have even adopted BitcoinXT. Other companies and prominent Bitcoin developers have attacked your move, and suggested alternative solutions—not all backed by working code—that are rapidly gaining support.
If BitcoinXT activates, it will recognize existing Bitcoins. It would be awfully difficult to be taken by surprise. The economic incentives to switch would be so strong—you want your Bitcoins to be the same Bitcoins that everyone else is using. The major barrier to it going mainstream anywhere is there has to be some way of getting Bitcoin as part of your normal activity. I still say do not invest your life savings in Bitcoin. It is still an experiment and it could still fail.
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