Gavin Andresen Requests Feedback for His Version of BIP 102. newsbtc bitcoin news Block size debate, who is not familiar with it? The arguments are slowly cooling down as most of the Bitcoin community is favoring Bitcoin Classic. Bitcoin Classic proposes an increase of block size from 1 MB to 2 MB to accommodate growing transactions on the Bitcoin network.
Bitcoin Classic calls for a hard fork in the blockchain to introduce the change in block size. Recently in an e mail , Gavin Andresen has called for constructive feedback for his variation of Jeff Garzik’s BIP-102 . BIP-102 was proposed by Jeff Garzik, one of the few Bitcoin Core developers last year. Like Bitcoin Classic, BIP-102 also calls for a 1 MB increase in block size.
While asking for feedback on the modified BIP-102 proposal, Gavin Andresen provides insights to his rationale behind certain points made in the proposal. In an ordinary circumstance, increasing the block size is not a very big deal. Making a small change in the code, where maximum block size limit is changed by 1 MB to 2 MB should do the trick. However, in reality especially with lots of people relying on the blockchain for bitcoin transactions and miners constantly working to process these transactions while they search for new blocks makes such a simple modification impossible. In order to make the transition as smooth as possible, a series of codes needs to be modified and tested q multiple times for any bugs that can potentially break the Bitcoin network. Testing and Implementation
Gavin Andresen lists the various steps taken to make the transition possible. He has also included few code snippets inside the post . These code snippets include “code testing codes”, which are available in two different levels. the first level, using C++ […]
