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The block size debate is among the most contentious discourse in Bitcoin, having spawned numerous community rifts and contested proposals.
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Mike Hearn News
Mike Hearn is a software developer famous for the development of Bitcoinj and his contribution to Bitcoin Core. Before he started his work on Bitcoin, he was employed at Google and worked on such projects as Google Maps and Gmail’s anti-spam and login security. After two years of Bitcoin development, Mike Hearn joined R3 — an enterprise software company, focusing on building blockchain platforms for businesses. Mike is currently working as a lead platform engineer for Corda — R3’s main product, which is specially designed for business blockchains. His texts on Bitcoin’s problems, new technologies and approaches to blockchain technologies published on blog.plan99 received good feedback from other blockchain experts. Mike is a popular blockchain specialist who has given talks on Bitcoin, Corda and cryptocurrency’s future at various events and meetups.
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24740On January 15, 2016, former Bitcoin Core developer Mike Hearn left the bitcoin community and industry with a blog post entitled “The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment.””I have sold all my coins”, he wrote.
10964If you had the pleasure to watch ‘The Revenant’, you might have noticed how nature helps, as well as torments, the protagonist during his struggle to survive.
843Panic caused by the action of Mike Hearn did not last long. It is obvious that the current situation with the price of Bitcoin will gradually level off.
524Mike Hearn leaving the Bitcoin Core team causes a value free fall, but what is behind his quitting? A conspiracy to kill Bitcoin is going on?
942Mike Hearn’s statement on the Bitcoin crisis is not enough to halt the era of Bitcoin. BTC has much more potential for growth and investor confidence.
630Bitcoin XT, the intentional fork that has been shaking up the bitcoin price, includes code branded as a hardcoded “blacklist” by critics.
1189Bitcoin 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
1013Bitcoin 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.
811The Far East versus the West; the United States versus China: a classic battle of global superpowers that may not have a winner
3051When 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.
115Two of China's biggest bitcoin exchanges - BTCChina and Huobi - have voiced concerns over Bitcoin Core developer Gavin Andresen's proposal to raise the block size limit to 20 megabytes by next year.
1685Gavin Andresen suggested that he would shift his efforts from the main Bitcoin implementation (Bitcoin core) to the alternative Bitcoin-Xt implementation.
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