"We were all busy arguing about the block size, but everything else is crucial."
That statement, by Cornell's Emin Gün Sirer, may have come in the middle of the second and final day of the Scaling Bitcoin conference, but it was perhaps the overriding theme of this year's edition of the digital currency network's developer summit.
Despite the public visibility of a protest event scheduled in parallel with the conference, the content of this year's event did much to showcase that, for many developers, the "block size" is no longer a significant factor in discussions on how the network should increase capacity.
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Topic: Why Weight? Bitcoin Scaling is Moving Beyond Block Size (Read 529 times)
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