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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
by
jbreher
on 20/08/2018, 17:31:07 UTC
@MarkFriedenbach https://twitter.com/MarkFriedenbach/status/1030211193544134658
I will be giving a talk at #ScalingBitcoin on how a block size increase up to 3600x the present size and a change of proof-of-work can be achieved with a fully backwards compatible soft-fork—old clients see all transactions and valid SHA256 block headers.

This is not good news if onchain.  I hope this is a sidechain solution.

Copied from another post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2040221.msg44413482#msg44413482):

Sounds interesting, but I don't see how this translates as a threat to BCH.

Core has already shown an incredible irrational resistance to scaling on-chain. The ugly hack of adopting SegWit as a so-called 'soft fork' has proven to have been the mechanism by which new security vulnerabilities have been introduced to BTC - will this 'soft fork' be any different? Lastly, experience with other chains has already conclusively demonstrated the folly of jettisoning $Billions of USD worth of dedicated security appliances.

While the capacity increase is attractive, this looks to be facing at least a trifecta of real implementation problems.

I must admit that as far as technical details, I am quivering with antici...
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