The Bitcoin Classic team, which counts among its members developers Andresen and Bloq CEO Jeff Garzik, said that it expects to release another version based on Bitcoin Core 0.12 in the next few weeks.
Bitcoin Classic team expressed support to the Bitcoin Cash project, which was activated and forked from the original bitcoin blockchain on 1 August 2017.
The Bitcoin Classic team accused the Bitcoin Core team of the inability to develop the network and «heavy divergence» from the vision of its creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
The Bitcoin Classic team includes developers Gavin Andresen, Jeff Garzik, Blockchain team member, Pedro Pinheiro, Tom Zander, and Jon Rumion.
And while
the Bitcoin Classic team maintains that a hard fork can be rolled out before April, this is considered overtly aggressive and outright risky by many within the development community.
Not exact matches
Bitcoin Classic was an international
team co-operating on development and distribution of free, open source software tools that build and support the
Bitcoin network
A schism has developed between the
team in charge of the original codebase for
Bitcoin, known as Core, and a rival faction pushing its own version of that open source code with a block size increase added in, known as
Classic.
He reiterated past calls for competing
teams working to develop
bitcoin implementations, writing that
Classic is «simply is the best option to mitigate risk right now».
But Dorier does hope this change will eventually come from the
Bitcoin Core development
team, rather than
Bitcoin Classic, explaining:
The
team behind the recently launched
Bitcoin Classic implementation believes that a change in fee policy is undesirable, questions whether the increased transaction throughput will be sufficient, and points out that there is a security degradation for nodes that don't upgrade to the latest version of the software.
Those signing the letter also called for greater collaboration with the
team behind
Bitcoin Core, though the wording notably does not preclude those involved from running test versions of the
Bitcoin Classic network.
For example, anonymous trolls sent the SWAT
team after
Bitcoin Core developer and BitGo engineer Jameson Lopp in North Carolina, using the
classic Gamergate tactic of claiming an outspoken critic was holding innocent people hostage with a deadly weapon.
The key - points of discussion included: · Block - size increase requirements ·
Bitcoin Core
team and the «soft fork» / SegWit proposal ·
Bitcoin Classic and the «hard - fork» & risks · Transparency on financing of developers · Developers governance · BIP process consensus
Some notable active participants included: Adam Back (BlockStream), Luke - Jr (
Bitcoin Core team), Blockchain.Info, BitMain, Ledge Marco (Genesis mining), Marshall Long (Classic), Gavin Andersen (Classic), Pindar Wong (Scaling Bitcoin), Henry Brade (Prasos), investor Roger Ver, Kang Xie as a representative of the Chinese bitcoin mining pools, and many
Bitcoin Core
team), Blockchain.Info, BitMain, Ledge Marco (Genesis mining), Marshall Long (
Classic), Gavin Andersen (
Classic), Pindar Wong (Scaling
Bitcoin), Henry Brade (Prasos), investor Roger Ver, Kang Xie as a representative of the Chinese bitcoin mining pools, and many
Bitcoin), Henry Brade (Prasos), investor Roger Ver, Kang Xie as a representative of the Chinese
bitcoin mining pools, and many
bitcoin mining pools, and many others.
High - profile
Bitcoin trader and researcher Beetcoin revealed that the integration of Ethereum
Classic by the BTCC DAX development
team is the first listing of Ethereum
Classic by a major Chinese exchange before Ethereum.
Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd was recently interviewed on episode 34 ofThe
Bitcoin Game, and the longtime
Bitcoin developer and researcher was able to explain some of the key disagreements between how the
Bitcoin Classic and
Bitcoin Core
teams view the peer - to - peer digital cash system.
Both
Bitcoin Core and
Bitcoin Classic developer
teams seem to agree on this growth, yet it will take at last a few more weeks until it is integrated into the main fork of
Bitcoin development.