{"id":1529,"date":"2016-02-29T17:43:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T14:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.media\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2016-02-29T17:46:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T14:46:41","slug":"the-satoshi-roundtable-is-there-a-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/the-satoshi-roundtable-is-there-a-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Satoshi Roundtable: Is There a Consensus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, the second international conference Satoshi Roundtable featuring the industry&#8217;s stakeholders was held to discuss the issues of network scalability and community development.<\/p>\n<p>The event held at a secret venue, allegedly somewhere in Florida, US, featured around 75 attendees representing almost any prominent company and startup, alongside with leading developers.<\/p>\n<p>While block size debate is still far from reaching any consensus, all the attendees agreed that Satoshi&#8217;s ideology is still alive, and the protocol has to remain open to anyone. This implies that opinions from developers and major miners remains important; however, votes from individual miners and regular users of cryptocurrency shall be considered as well.<\/p>\n<p>The attendees agreed that no privatization of the network&#8217;s development is inadmissible. Open code, according to them, is the only guarantee for transparency and absence of a single &#8216;network owner&#8217; in a traditional meaning of the term. The proposal of keeping on the option of disclosing bitcoin sender&#8217;s identity at his or her wish.<\/p>\n<p>As far as statements vocalized at the conference go, there are no plans to change bitcoin network&#8217;s working principles. All history transactions will remain immutable, with the same principle applicable to all future transactions. The issuance limitation of 21 million bitcoins also retains; however, there were some proposals to change it.<\/p>\n<p>As for the accursed issue of block size increase, no consensus was reached. The event was attended both by SegWit and Bitcoin Classic supporters, who have generally opposite points of view.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the attendees failed to reach any consensus here, the event itself, as they state, was very positive and promising in terms of further bitcoin development.<\/p>\n<p>The conference&#8217;s official twitter account quoted Bitcoin Core&#8217;s lead developer Gavin Andresen who called his colleagues&#8217; work &#8220;incredible&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gavin Andresen:  \u201cI believe the current core development team is doing an incredible job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Satoshi Roundtable (@SatoshiRoundtbl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SatoshiRoundtbl\/status\/703683294303539206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The conference itself was a private function, and only those having invitations could attend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, the second international conference Satoshi Roundtable featuring the industry&#8217;s stakeholders was held to discuss the issues of network scalability and community development. The event held at a secret venue, allegedly somewhere in Florida, US, featured around 75 attendees representing almost any prominent company and startup, alongside with leading developers. 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