Bitcoin ‘Forked’ in Controversial Bid to Resolve Scalability Question

By August 17, 2015Bitcoin Business

bitcoin code Two of bitcoin’s best-known developers have ‘forked’ the software in a controversial attempt to resolve its scalability crisis.

The client, Bitcoin XT , was dreamt up earlier this year as a way to ‘opt out’ of bitcoin’s current 1MB block size limit – which has proved a divisive issue as the digital currency grows.

Currently, the network handles between three and seven transactions per second. However, blocks on the network are beginning to fill […]

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