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Bitcoin Cash Plans to Increase Block Size

Developers of the cryptocurrency, bitcoin cash, have plans to increase its block size yet again next year.

This is acccording to a rough roadmap released by the bitcoin offshoot's main developer team, Bitcoin ABC.

The roadmap shows includes two hard forks scheduled for May and November of 2018.

Bitcoin cash is a cryptocurrency that rose this summer out of bitcoin's block size debate.

Blocked by those who were hesitant to move towards a block size increase, several block advocates went their own way.

They then created their own cryptocurrency.

Most importantly, bitcoin cash claims of a block size parameter limit eight times bigger than that of bitcoin.

Bitcoin cash development didn't halt at this first split, however.

Its developers have disclosed other proposals to better the cryptocurrency, which are added to by the new roadmap.

"We want to make it more reliable, more scalable, with low fees and ready for rapid growth,” the announcement read.

“It should 'just work', without complications or hassles.

“It should be ready for global adoption by mainstream users, and provide a solid foundation that businesses can rely on."

Bitcoin cash supporters deem increasing the block size is important to accomplishing this.

This is since fees will theoretically rise less quickly as the block size increases.

Later on in the roadmap, Bitcoin ABC developers showed other possible features, such as stimulating older rules that had been disabled in the code.

The roadmap is can change as the community chimes in, however.

Bitcoin ABC is only one of several bitcoin cash software applications that need to agree and move forward with the change.

The group will not issue a formal announcement until February 2018.
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