The debate is mainly about the future and how the increase in transactions will be handled by the network.
As blocks fill up, solutions need to be made.
Gavin wants to increase the maximum size of the blocks, to allow more transactions. Opponents don't want this, because they fear massive storage size needs and slower mining in places with high latency (china).
One important side node: The devs from the dev team that strongly oppose are heavily involved in creating a sidechain network company to fix this. It seems that financial motives play a big role too.
Topic: Why has Gavin left core and attempted to make a fork? - page 3. (Read 2404 times)
I've been reading through the debates on these forums and other places.
I'm not sure what I'm missing but I'm confused why one of the original dev's have done this and did not simply stay with core and try and make the changes there? Was he forced out or couldn't make the changes he wanted or something else?
It seems that forking the coin in such a way is a dangerous move. The fact that it has a different name to me makes it FEEL like it is an alt-coin that's trying to take over by introducing the coin as a fork. The only difference is it has one of the original devs of bitcoin involved?
Thanks in advance to whoever can clear things up for me.
I'm not sure what I'm missing but I'm confused why one of the original dev's have done this and did not simply stay with core and try and make the changes there? Was he forced out or couldn't make the changes he wanted or something else?
It seems that forking the coin in such a way is a dangerous move. The fact that it has a different name to me makes it FEEL like it is an alt-coin that's trying to take over by introducing the coin as a fork. The only difference is it has one of the original devs of bitcoin involved?
Thanks in advance to whoever can clear things up for me.
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