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Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Block Size Increase
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On 05/07/15 11:29, Mike Hearn wrote:
>     Can you please elaborate on what terrible things will happen if we
>     don't increase the block size by winter this year?
> 
> 
> I was referring to winter next year. 0.12 isn't scheduled until the end
> of the year, according to Wladimir. I explained where this figure comes
> from in this article:

On a related note, I'd like to agree strongly with Peter Todd that we
should get away from doing forks-only-in-releases. We can add code to do
a fork and then enable it in 0.11.1 or 0.11.11 if Gavin prefers more 11s.