Bitcoin system expansion roadmap gains majority consensus among developer community

According to a post by theymos, the administrator of the bitcoin.org website, the solution to the scalability problem of the Bitcoin Core system has gained majority consensus in the developer community, and the list of signatories includes the vast majority of developers who have recently contributed to Bitcoin Core (including some well-known non-core developers, unsigned developers include Jeff Garzik, Gavin Andersen, Peter Todd, etc.).

The following is the roadmap for expansion:

1. libsecp256k1很快be used for validation, which will speed up initial sync time by about 400%-700% and reduce CPU load for all full nodes.

2. A segregated witness witness soft fork will be completed as soon as possible (probably within 3-6 months), which will effectively increase the transaction capacity of the Bitcoin system by at least 2 times (i.e., it is equal to or better than BIP 102), and at the same time, it will provide a secure way to scale.

3. There won’t be any hard forks, at least for the next year.

4. To pave the way for a hard fork to increase block size (which will eventually be necessary), improved block/tx broadcasting using弱区块and IBLT techniques, hopefully these can be implemented as soon as possible after the SegWit solution is finalized.

5. A BIP to deploy the lightning network is already being planned and should be launched in 2016, which is expected to be the true final scaling solution.

Here is the developer's signed letter:

We sign on to support the Bitcoin system's expansion roadmap. We have been working on the scalability of the Bitcoin Core project for several years and we think this is probably the best option at this time.

Adam Back
Alex Morcos
Ben Davenport
Bryan Bishop
BtcDrak
Charlie Lee
Christian Decker
Cory Fields
Craig Watkins
Daniel Kraft
David A. Harding
David Vorick
Douglas Huff
Eric Lombrozo
Gregory Maxwell
Gregory Sanders
James Hilliard
Johnathan Corgan
Johnson Lau
Jonas Schnelli
Lawrence Nahum
Matt Corallo
Nicolas Bacca
Pavel Janik
Pieter Wuille
Randy Waterhouse
Rodolfo Novak
Suhas Daftuar
Theymos
Thomas Kerin
Warren Togami
Wladimir J. van der Laan

Original article: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3xr8ql/capacity_increases_for_the_bitcoin_system_bitcoin/
Author: theymos
Compiled by: Satuoxi
Source (translation): Babbitt Information (http://www.8btc.com/capacity-increases)