Knowing the developers: an analysis of Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin Unlimited

As part of knowing the developers, we will be taking a look at Bitcoin Cash and its two most popular repositories, Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin Unlimited.

This is the first cryptocurrency we will be looking at that is a fork of Bitcoin (BTC). In August of 2017, conflict grew over increasing the “block size” of the network. This would have raised the maximum number of transactions a single block could contain. Despite consensus and concerns, some developers decided to move forward and increase the block size themselves, thus creating an entirely new network, Bitcoin Cash.