Bitcoin Foundation chief scientist Gavin Andresen has proposed increasing the number of transactions allowed on the bitcoin network by raising the maximum block size 50% per year.
Doing so would require a hard fork and “some risk”, Andresen conceded in a new Bitcoin Foundation blog post , but he concluded that such proposals are necessary for the long-term viability of bitcoin as a global payments system.
Entitled “A Scalability Roadmap”, the piece builds on Andresen’s past statements regarding how he believes […]
