Bitcoin Foundation’s Chief Scientist Gavin Andresen recently proposed a fork to increase the Bitcoin block size to 20 MB.
In his recent post on GitHub, the Bitcoin core developers demonstrated changes in Bitcoin’s source code — roughly 156 additions and 38 deletions — to implement the aforesaid fork by 1st March, 2016. “Allows any block with a timestamp on or after 1 March 2016 00:00:00 UTC to be up to 20,000,000 bytes big (serialized),” Andresen wrote. […]
