This is a guest post by Eric Lombrozo, the Co-CEO and CTO of Ciphrex Corp. , a software company pioneering decentralized consensus network technology. Lombrozo is also a founding member of the CryptoCurrency Security Standards Steering Committee and has been a longtime contributor to the open source Bitcoin core development effort.
Introduction
In the last few months, a contentious debate has arisen surrounding the issue of a hardcoded constant in the consensus rules […]