Forking Hell: There are a Lot of Hard Forks Coming to Bitcoin

in bitcoin •  7 years ago 

 There’s rarely a dull moment in the cryptocurrency space but recent months have been about as dramatic as they come. The forking saga that began in August of this year with Bitcoin Cash attempting to keep a version of Bitcoin without second layer scaling solution Segwit has continued and this month reached unprecedented levels of bewilderment, surprise, and intrigue. On November 8, the main supporters of a controversial second hard fork that was scheduled for later in the month declared that they had called off their plan. They had sought to fork the Bitcoin blockchain to increase the block size from 1MB to 2MB. However, they announced that a lack of support had caused them to abandon the project. 

Article: http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/11/16/forking-hell-theres-lot-hard-forks-coming-bitcoin/

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Very interesting article