Bcoin Developers Plan to Test Scaling Concept ‘Extension Blocks’

[jamie.redman1]

There has been a lot of discussions lately concerning the scaling debate and alternative Bitcoin clients within the ecosystem. Just recently, the Javascript protocol called Bcoin made headlines for its recent development, as well as a Bcoin block being mined on the Bitcoin mainnet. Now the founder of Purse has announced the development of a scaling attempt called “extension blocks.”

On April 3, Purse CEO and founder Andrew Lee proposed a new idea for scaling called extension blocks (EXT-B/ E-blocks). The E-blocks code has been submitted to Github with a proposal written by Christopher Jeffrey, Joseph Poon, Fedor Indutny, and Stephen Pair. The idea was first conceived by Johnson Lau in 2013 on Bitcointalk.org, when Lau realized the 1MB block size limit could be solved with an “auxiliary block” soft fork.

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