Держался месяц, не написав ничего про блокчейн, но тут на Bloomberg вышла такая крутая аналитическая статья про драму в мире Биткоинов, что грех не поделиться. (В ближайший месяц самую популярную криптовалюту ожидает пара важных изменений).
"To address this problem, two main schools of thought emerged. On one side are miners, who deploy costly computers to verify transactions and act as the backbone of the blockchain. They’re proposing a straightforward increase to the block size limit.
On the other is Core, a group of developers instrumental in upholding bitcoin’s bug-proof software. They insist that to ease blockchain’s traffic jam, some of its data must be managed outside the main network. They claim that not only would it reduce congestion, but also allow other projects including smart contracts to be built on top of bitcoin.
But moving data off the blockchain effectively diminishes the influence of miners, the majority of whom are based in China and who have invested millions on giant server farms. Not surprisingly, Core’s proposal, called SegWit, has garnered resistance from miners, the most vocal being Wu Jihan, co-founder of the world’s largest mining organization Antpool."
Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War Right as It Enters a Critical Month
Turbulence ahead.