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Bitfury

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Bitcoin miner and ASIC maker whose executives signed the 2016 Hong Kong statement and which appeared on the 2017 New York Agreement.

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The wiki's angle: Bitfury signed both of the war's big compromise documents, Hong Kong in 2016 and New York in 2017, neither of which delivered the hard fork it promised.[1][2]

Contents

  1. Block size war
  2. On the show
  3. References

Block size war

The February 2016 Hong Kong Roundtable statement lists “Valery Vavilov CEO BitFury” and “Alex Petrov CIO BitFury” among its signers[1]. The May 2017 New York Agreement lists “Bitfury (United States)” among supporting companies and BitFury among those offering technical help with the upgrades[2]. Bitcoin Takeover's timeline names BitFury on the mining panel of Scaling Bitcoin Hong Kong in December 2015[3].

On the show

On S16 E54 Ros said “Bitfury was one of the biggest Bitcoin miners” and an ASIC producer, and that a Stroom co-founder had worked there as a Lightning researcher[4].

References

  1. primaryBitcoin Roundtable, “Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus”, Medium, 20 Feb 2016 (Wayback Machine copy)
  2. primaryDigital Currency Group, “Bitcoin Scaling Agreement at Consensus 2017”, Medium, 23 May 2017 (Wayback Machine copy)
  3. btkFork Wars: the block size war timeline (Bitcoin Takeover) [archived]
  4. episodeS16 E54: Ros on Bitfury as one of the biggest miners and ASIC makers▶ listen at 9:18timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]

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