Shortly after Bitcoin XT
lead developer Mike Hearn very publicly denounced Bitcoin a failed experiment, the alternative implementation quickly gained support from major Bitcoin industry players including Coinbase, Blockchain and Bitstamp, as well as Bitcoin Core veterans Gavin Andresen and Jeff Garzik.
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.
Not exact matches
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BitcoinJ
developer and former Google engineer
Mike Hearn is working on a new decentralized crowdfunding platform that will support bitcoin transactions and could
lead to a reshaping of the peer - to - peer finance landscape.
There will also be feature presentations by Matt Tuzzolo,
Lead Developer of Blockchain,
Mike Hearn, Founder of Lighthouse, pro bono legal consulting sessions for start ups, exhibits and networking opportunities.
«Some are wary of the current Core
developers all quitting in the
Mike Hearn fashion, which might
lead to a disastrous outcome; some simply don't want the rest of the world to perceive Bitcoin as being controlled by the Chinese, a narrative that has gained currency in the media as demonstrated by the recent New York Times article,» explained Mu.
One such strategy was recently employed by R3CEV
developer Mike Hearn and former Bitcoin Core
lead developer Gavin Andresen through Bitcoin XT, but has not reached sufficient support so far.
The conversation concerning the possible increase of the blocksize has been going on publicly at least since 2013 with
lead developers such as Peter Todd, Gavin Andresen, Peter Wuille and
Mike Hearn exchanging opinions at bitcointalk.org under the thread titled How a Floating Blocksize Limit inevitably
Leads towards Centralization.