Bitcoin block size voting results are out: Core gradually loses its advantage, and the proportion of miners who do not care about the plan increases significantly

The Bitcoin ecosystem has been divided into several camps. With the continued delay of the solution to the Bitcoin network's scaling problem and the continuous proposals for other direct solutions, a very interesting change is happening in the community. It turns out that the majority of miners still support Bitcoin Core in the block size debate, but Core is quickly losing this base.

So far, there have been a number of different proposals being considered to solve the Bitcoin scaling problem. One thing everyone agrees on is how to increase the block size. However, how much to increase remains to be seen. Bitcoin Core, as an important branch of Bitcoin development, is working on a segregated witness solution that guarantees a 2MB block size.

Based on the block size vote, Bitcoin Core only has 27.94% support. However, it is important to remember that a quarter of the community members did not vote, and their preferences are uncertain. However, even if we assume that the 22.01% of miners who did not vote support Core, Core's support rate will not reach 50%.

Miners no longer care about expansion preferences

Bitcoin Classic seems to be the "best solution among other options" at the moment, with 12.2% support. A few months ago, Bitcoin Classic held a hard fork vote to directly increase the block size. This concept has been widely debated because hard forks can bring serious security issues to Bitcoin in the future.

Other solutions, such as Bitcoin Unlimited - 2.54%, BitPay's Bitcoin - 2.45%, BIP100 (directly increase the block size to 8MB) - 3%, all received much less support. However, it is indeed positive to see so many different solutions being considered today. Unfortunately, this also means that a large number of Bitcoin miners no longer care about which solution is chosen, as long as it can be implemented quickly.

More precisely, a total of 26.84% of Bitcoin miners do not care which Bitcoin scaling solution is implemented. However, this does not mean that they no longer care about scaling. The constant fight between different solutions is stressing the Bitcoin ecosystem as a whole. Without a proper solution, the number of miners who do not care about 'who wins' will only increase.

As it stands, Bitcoin’s scaling problem isn’t going to be solved anytime soon. If even miners don’t care which solution to pick, then it’s clear that something needs to change. Scaling — this lingering problem is in desperate need of a solution.

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