Ma Long, or better known as Maya/Cndx in Chinese Bitcoin community, is a Segwit enthusiast and Core-supporter, summarize a series of Chinese posts on softfork scaling to better educate the Chinese community on 8btc.



Ma Long quit his fulltime job and dig into Bitcoin and blockchain development in 2013. Now he focus on Shibe, a dogecoin-friendly community, and idgui, a bitcoin navigation site. You may find more about him here. As one of the active supporters of Bitcoin Core, Ma Long has been frequently engaged in the softfork and hardfork discussion.

He told 8btc that his stand for scaling was a bit complicated, but he set two bottom lines:

1. The community must be united.

2. No more centralization.

I don’t support any proposals that are not in line with the two principles.

He also pointed out that:

The 75% activation threshold of Bitcoin XT and Classic poses a great threat to the unity of bitcoin community. Bitcoin Unlimited has no definite number for activation and unlimited blocksize. That means super large block is a likelihood, which will result in further node centralization. In other words, BU crossed both lines and I am against it.

The Segwit softfork scaling was favored by Ma Long for two reasons:

1. The proposal is a compatible softfork and the 95% consensus means low risk of blockchain split.

2. With the support of Segwit, Lightning Network and Side Chain, blockchain requires no ultra-large mainnet blocks, which will facilitate decentralization of full nodes.

Ma is open to discussion and he compiled a post: Summary of Chinese articles that support softfork scaling. The thread will be updated from time to time.

Please note that the following links are all in Chinese.

1. Technology

It is suggested that all discussions should be free and civilized from a true technical perspective.

(Author/Title / Date of release)

cndx :What is the nature of the war between Softfork and hardfork 2016-11-15

Bither wallet Team: Bither Open Course: Segwit 2016-02-02

tan90d: Notes on learning Segwit 2016-01-09

BiteJiang: Lightning Network in laymen terms 2016-06-27

Zhuli(Shanghai Stock Exchange): Technical interpretation of Lightning Network, Raiden Network and CORDA 2016-06-12

cndx: Technical proposal, LN-like payment construction via 2-of-2 mutlisig 2016-11-07

Meng:Exclusive interview with Joseph Poon, founder of LN, updates and issues of LN 2016-09-30

tan90d: Flexible Transactions 2016-09-26

2. Concepts

ahr999: About the concensus rule of Bitcoin system 2016-10-19

cndx: What is the definition for consensus, forking and compatibility 2016-10-11

tan90d:What is hardfork, Softfork and consensus? 2016-10-10

ahr999: About the currency feature of Bitcoin 2016-11-03

cndx: Thoughs on Principles of Bitcoin scaling 2016-03-12

tan90d: what is block withholding attack? 2016-11-26

3.Practice

cndx: Bitcoin transaction fee and how to achieve fast confirmation of Bitcoin transaction 2016-10-28

9.6 BiteJiang: Bitcoin software, block, version upgrade and BIP9 standard 2016-12-02

Kyle Torpey:Bitcoin lightning network creators fees will be effectively zero 2016-04-07

Olusegun Ogundeji Llew Claasen: Why the Rest of 2016 Will Bring Even More Growth to Bitcoin, Blockchain Focus Being Blessing 2016-11-08

4. Debate

cndx refute Mike Hearn on his The capacity cliff：And why we can’t use fancy tricks to avoid it 2016-09-07

Ryan_XxOo： Bitcoin will not fail, and the failure is Mike Hearn himself 2016-01-16

cndx：Thoughts on Roger Ver’s Time to end the blocksize blockade 2016-06-30

Vivek Rajasekhar: Don’t Increase the Block Size for Bitcoin Transactions 2016-07-20

5. Action Proposals

cndx: Risk reminder for the action plan of mining sectors 2016-07-05

8.4 bitejiang: Propose to impose restrictions on BU 2016-10-13

8.5 Bitejiang: Stop split speech to maintain unity in community 2016-10-20

Luke-jr: Bitcoin Core Devs will consider 2MB hardfork proposal, provided that Segwit activation 2016-12-05