3/ Forking BS over and over again. now just before the Halving. hOw friggin convenient.
https://github.com/gavinandresen/bitcoin-git/commit/5f46da29fd02fd2a8a787286fd6a56f680073770
I am not sure how ~15-16 months away from the halving - only about 67% (15.5/48) of the way to a halving - is "just before".
A low limit on the block sizes was only considered a temporary measure all along.
lol no. read again.
Hard fork: allow 20MB blocks after 1 March 2016
Reward-Drop ETA: 2016-07-29 05:53:43 UTC (64 weeks, 3 days, 22 hours, 30 minutes)
http://bitcoinclock.com/thats hardly 5 months before, and there is still room to lessen the time left until halving.