Since its release on August 6th, Bitcoin XT, a patch set on top of the existing Bitcoin Core, has focused the bitcoin community’s attention on the block size debate. Core maintainers and highly influential CEOs alike, like Peter Smith of Blockchain and Steven Pair of BitPay , have entered the online fray, fueling passion-laden discussions across Reddit, Twitter, Medium, and GitHub.
Multiple solutions have been proposed to alleviate the block size debate, like 8MB blocks […]