[2017-04-09] Armory opposes Hard-Forks, supports SegWit

There is now an inclination for the established Bitcoin services and businesses in showing which application they prefer to support. Like XT and Bitcoin Classic from before, the larger part of the community will start rejecting the hard fork and will not take it seriously. Other new sites are already saying that Bitcoin Unlimited node count is now going down. Was the asic boost scandal the cause?

Armory Rejects BTU

The majority of Bitcoin enterprises and operators turned down Bitcoin Unlimited because of problems in decentralization and security.

Andrew Chow (Goat Pig), lead developer of Armory, explained Armory does not view the philosophy of BTU to let miners choose the Block size appropriate for BTCs blockchain. He emphasized that the block size must not be decided by votes of users and miners. The block size limit is not a magic number. Voting on this number does not improve the restriction. The only tolerable solution is algorithmic and not the technical metric.

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