Brian of #Coinbase went to #China to plead with the big mining pools to switch to the #Bitcoin-Classic fork (the new try at #Bitcoin-XT). #BTCC CEO Bobby Lee: “It was almost like imperialistic Westerners coming to China and telling us what to do.” Has a breakdown of #Bitcoin mining power by pool: 26.3% F2Pool, 20.1% #Antpool, 12.6% BTCC Pool, 11.9% BW.com, 9% BitFury, 4.8% Slush, 3.3% KnCMiner, 4.5% “others” (?), 7.6% “unknown”. Also profiles #Bitmain’s Jihan Wu. Bitmain runs Antpool.
on 02016-06-30Bram Cohen describes Mike Hearn’s #Bitcoin farewell essay (the one that dropped Bitcoin from $430 to $360 yesterday) as a “whiny ragequit”, because Mike’s favored #Bitcoin-XT fork lost.
on 02016-01-16Gavin Andresen’s commit expanding #Bitcoin block size to 20MB starting 2016-03-01; Andresen was the lead developer until 2014, but this disagreement resulted later in the #Bitcoin-XT fork.
on 02015-08-05