Agreement on bitcoin scaling

The meeting of the heads of bitcoin-companies and mining pools, held earlier this week in New York, led to an agreement on the way Bitcoin scales, in order to increase its throughput.

The text of the agreement, published last night by the initiator of the consensus of the Digital Currency Group at the Medium site, explains that the agreement includes two key protocol updates that will be activated to achieve the stated goal. The agreement was signed by more than 50 companies, and supported more than 83% of hashed, according to the authors of the press release.