Sentences with phrase «controversial code change»

By reducing that time, mining pools will have one (or maybe two) three - day periods in which they can lock - in a controversial code change called Segregated Witness (SegWit) by signaling support using the SegWit2x software before the UASF occurs on August 1st.

Not exact matches

To one, the bundle of code changes doesn't seem to be so controversial it puts bitcoin cash in any danger from something serious like the network split that created it.

Last night a deal on housing legislation came together between the Assembly and Senate that would have extended the controversial J - 51 tax abatement until 2015 without making any changes to it, as well as making changes in the housing code for loft tenants.

Controversial scaling proposal Segwit2x tried to remedy this by joining two code change ideas - the code optimization Segregated Witness (SegWit) and a block size increase.

While Bhardwaj claims increasing the block size limit via a hard fork is not a complex alteration in terms of code changes, the controversial aspect of such a change is that it requires a hard fork (and thus all users moving over to a new network), which can be difficult to coordinate — unless the proposed change is itself uncontroversial.

The opportunity to make the improvement arose when bitcoin developers realized that they would need to invent an entirely new addressing scheme anyway with the possible future integration of SegWit - a controversial change proposed for bitcoin's code.

Stepping back, the change can be seen as a response to long - controversial code in the ethereum protocol called the difficulty bomb.