Members of the Bitcoin Core team and representatives of the cryptocurrency’s mining pools in China have reached an agreement on the roadmap to scaling Bitcoin with a Bitcoin Core approved hard fork.
The common consensus will see the proposed timeline have five Bitcoin Core contributors develop the implementation of the hard-fork that will be available as a recommendation to the Bitcoin core network.
This hard-fork will include the feature of a block size increase to around 2 MB and the code is expected to be available in July 2016, within three months of the release of the Segregated Witness (SegWit) soft work.
This hard-fork is expected to include features which are currently being discussed within technical communities, including an increase in the non-witness data to be around 2 MB, with the total size more than 4 MB, and will only be adopted with broad support across the entire Bitcoin community.
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