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Former Bitcoin Core lead developer Gavin Andresen and Bitcoinj lead developer Mike Hearn, in particular, believed that Bitcoin's 1 megabyte block size limit should be increased with a hard fork, an incompatible protocol change that would require almost the entire Bitcoin ecosystem to upgrade.

The Bitcoin community is split over an upcoming hard fork intended to double the capacity of the network, and some believe the change amounts to a takeover of the protocol by corporations.

Coleman believes that «from a technological perspective, there is nothing short of a hard fork [a non-backward-compatible change to the Ethereum protocol] to restore the destroyed funds.»

Called Segregated Witness, the proposal would, among other less publicized fixes, increase the blockchain's capacity four-fold without requiring a hard fork that would change bitcoin's consensus rules, a process that they believe may be too risky at present.

Given that the issue has so often been termed the «block size debate» by the press, there is confusion as to whether Segregated Witness solves the scaling problem at all, or whether it's an attempt to put off a hard fork - a change that many in the industry believe will eventually be needed given that the network only processes 1 MB of data roughly every 10 minutes.

Developers of bitcoin cash believe Segwit was an unnecessary soft fork and chose to split before the Segwit2x (BTC1) miners integrated the change.

Developers in support of this new change believe that reusing Bitcoin's license by other forks is an attack on Bitcoin.

The issue with the pending fork is some people believe the change does not have full consensus.

Tai believes the way inevitable forks and changes are implemented will define bitcoin's social and cultural potential, regardless of each blockchain network's profitability after the dust settles.

Many BCH supporters believe the upgrade will be smooth and successful like the hard fork on November 13 that changed the protocol difficulty adjustment algorithm.