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Bitcoin-XT News
Bitcoin-XT started as a sequence of patches on top of Bitcoin Core that were later turned into an independently maintained soft fork. In 2015, when Bitcoin transactions started to be too slow and expensive, Bitcoin-XT was proposed by Gavin Andersen and Mike Hearn as a platform for increasing the block size of Bitcoin form 1 megabyte to 8 megabytes. The Bitcoin-XT fork gathered some support in the Bitcoin community and attention from various blockchain-related media. Miners who support Bitcoin-XT should have began producing blocks with a new version number to indicate that they had sided with the new fork. If 75 percent of the last thousand blocks would be Bitcoin-XT blocks, those miners would have changed the blockchain from Bitcoin core to Bitcoin-XT. However, Bitcoin-XT only gathered 10 percent of miners to use its protocol, had no support from Chinese mining pools and lost almost all supporters by the end of 2016.
The Bitcoin XT project, championed by Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn, has been the talk of the Bitcoin community all summer long.
879Bitcoin never had a clear future, but it looks even cloudier in the midst of the unpleasant, yet weirdly magnetic, blocksize debate.
504A significant chunk of mining pools has taken a fierce stand against Bitcoin XT; the largest currently operating bitcoin black market has decided to halt operations due to a Tor de-anonymizing vulnerability, and more news
666Bitcoin XT, the intentional fork that has been shaking up the bitcoin price, includes code branded as a hardcoded “blacklist” by critics.
1189The first Bitcoin block in support of Bitcoin XT has been mined by Slush Pool; the bitcoin price has plunged over 13% and more top stories for August 19.
619The demands of the Bitcoin core developer faction for a hard fork to Bitcoin XT have resurfaced.
2158Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen have launched Bitcoin XT, new research has found that marketplaces on the dark web frequently process more bitcoin transactions than BitPay, and more news
587Mike Hearn says the new XT version will include a “bigger blocksize only” branch; Factom raises US$1.1 million in crowdsale; Australian Securities regulator blocks Bitcoin IPO and more news
434Bitcoin Core developer Jeff Garzik's proposed compromise to double the block size limit to 2MB as a temporary solution is still far from reaching consensus
1013Three of the biggest Western mining pools – representing a total of some 19% of hashing power on the Bitcoin network – stand divided on raising the block size limit.
1073Bitcoin Core developer Gavin Andresen today proposed a hard fork change for Bitcoin XT in order to allow for an increased block size limit on the Bitcoin network.
811One of the agents with stealing bitcoins from Silk Road will plead guilty; the European Banking Authority believes a 51% attack is Bitcoin’s biggest threat and more news
740When Cointelegraph asked the Bitcoin Wallet software providers listed on bitcoin.org, they showed broad support for increasing the Bitcoin block size limit from 1 to 20 MB.
905Overstock sold its first cryptobond, the cryptography team at Blockstream unveiled its first prototype sidechain and more top stories for June 9.
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