Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus Among Leaders ReachedAt a bitcoin roundtable consensus meeting in Hongkong on February 21, 2016 leaders in the bitcoin community and mining pools reached consensus concerning a possible hardfork to the new client Bitcoin Classic. The members agreed to stay with Bitcoin Core’s roadmap introducing SegWit by end of April 2016 with a hardfork in 2017 with community support.The Medium article is reprinted below:“On February 21st, 2016, in Hong Kong’s Cyberport, representatives from the bitcoin industry and members of the development community have agreed on the following points:We understand that SegWit continues to be developed actively as a soft-fork and is likely to proceed towards release over the next two months, as originally scheduled.We will continue to work with the entire Bitcoin protocol development community to develop, in public, a safe hard-fork based on the improvements in SegWit. The Bitcoin Core contributors present at the Bitcoin Roundtable will have an implementation of such a hard-fork available as a recommendation to Bitcoin Core within three months after the release of SegWit.This hard-fork is expected to include features which are currently being discussed within technical communities, including an increase in the non-witness data to be around 2 MB, with the total size no more than 4 MB, and will only be adopted with broad support across the entire Bitcoin community.We will run a SegWit release in production by the time such a hard-fork is released in a version of Bitcoin Core.We will only run Bitcoin Core-compatible consensus systems, eventually containing both SegWit and the hard-fork, in production, for the foreseeable future.We are committed to scaling technologies which use block space more efficiently, such as Schnorr multisig.Based on the above points, the timeline will likely follow the below dates.SegWit is expected to be released in April 2016.The code for the hard-fork will therefore be available by July 2016.If there is strong community support, the hard-fork activation will likely happen around July 2017.The undersigned support this roadmap.Together, we are:Kevin Pan Manager AntPoolAnatoly Legkodymov CEO A-XBTLarry Salibra Bitcoin Association Hong KongLeonhard Weese Bitcoin Association Hong KongCory Fields Bitcoin Core ContributorJohnson Lau Bitcoin Core ContributorLuke Dashjr Bitcoin Core ContributorMatt Corallo Bitcoin Core ContributorPeter Todd Bitcoin Core ContributorKang Xie Bitcoin RoundtablePhil Potter Chief Strategy Officer BitfinexValery Vavilov CEO BitFuryAlex Petrov CIO BitFuryJihan Wu Co-CEO BitmainMicree Zhan Co-CEO BitmainJames Hilliard Pool/Farm Admin BitmainWarrantyYoshi Goto CEO BitmainWarrantyAlex Shultz CEO BIT-X ExchangeHan Solo CEO BlockcloudAdam Back President BlockstreamBobby Lee CEO BTCCSamson Mow COO BTCCRobin Yao CTO BWWang Chun Admin F2PoolMarco Streng CEO Genesis MiningMarco Krohn CFO Genesis MiningWu Gang CEO HaoBTCJack Liao CEO LIGHTNINGASIC & BitExchangeJack Liu Head of International OKCoinGuy Corem CEO Spondoolies-Tech”
