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Changes to the Bitcoin protocol are inherently contentious. When you update normal software, you just tell the hardware what to do, and the hardware does it. In the case of Bitcoin, the hardware can argue with you. Bitcoin is implemented on a distributed cluster of unruly...

As Bitcoin scales, the protocol is encountering all sorts of growing pains. Bitcoin is being used more and more (and that’s good), but this is bringing to the forefront potential issues with the protocol that have to be resolved. The most dramatic scale problem is the miner...