Will 2017 bring an end to bitcoin’s great scaling debate?

In bitcoin’s early days, discussion of the protocol was almost the only thing that mattered – and 2016, it could be said, has brought this discussion back to centre stage.

The reason has been the continued focus on network scalability, more specifically whether modifying bitcoin’s block size is the right way to increase the number of transactions the network can process. Read more: www.coindesk.com