There is near complete consensus, see:
https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-con...
Nearly every developer, along with the vast majority of miners, have agreed to this.
The group that did not agree (Coinbase, 2 developers, and some small miners) is extremely good at social media and has done a great job of spreading a false story of "serious scaling problems" and "developers can't reach consensus". It's simply not true.
They want to take over the bitcoin network with a fork, which will follow different rules, called "Bitcoin Classic". This is their second attempt at a takeover, the last was the failed "Bitcoin XT" fork. There is no sane reason to fork the network short of trying to take control of the protocol.
Here is the roadmap that the main Bitcoin ("core") team has put together and is working on:
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2015/12/23/capacity-increases-faq...
https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-con...
Nearly every developer, along with the vast majority of miners, have agreed to this.
The group that did not agree (Coinbase, 2 developers, and some small miners) is extremely good at social media and has done a great job of spreading a false story of "serious scaling problems" and "developers can't reach consensus". It's simply not true.
They want to take over the bitcoin network with a fork, which will follow different rules, called "Bitcoin Classic". This is their second attempt at a takeover, the last was the failed "Bitcoin XT" fork. There is no sane reason to fork the network short of trying to take control of the protocol.
Here is the roadmap that the main Bitcoin ("core") team has put together and is working on:
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2015/12/23/capacity-increases-faq...