Bitcoin facing August split as miners, developers and users come down in favour of 'hard fork'

John Leonard
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Need to make bitcoin more scalable looks like provoking a fork between bitcoin and 'bitcoin cash'

Bitcoin could split in two after 1 August in the culmination of disagreements between bitcoin's 'miners' over how the blockchain needs to be changed to enable it to better scale. A hard fork is ...

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