Protocol · August 15, 2015
Bitcoin XT released — block-size war begins
Price at event
$280
Today
$61,577
Since then
×220
Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen ship Bitcoin XT, a hard-fork client to lift the 1MB block-size cap. The community fractures. The next two years are spent in trench warfare over a single integer.
⸺ Sources ⸺
- primaryMike Hearn — "Why is Bitcoin forking?" (primary, the Aug 2015 Bitcoin XT announcement/explainer by the author himself) ↗
- newsBitcoin Magazine — "Bitcoin XT Big Block Fork Spurs Debate and Controversy" (contemporary Aug 2015 reporting) ↗
- referenceWikipedia — Bitcoin XT / List of bitcoin forks (BIP 101, Aug 2015 release, block-size war) ↗