 Howdy there! Welcome to the Daily Decrypt. I am your host Amanda, and today's episode is brought to you by The Merkle. As the one megabyte block size cap in Bitcoin has been continually reached over the last several months, causing delays in transactions and increased fees, competing variants to the Bitcoin Core, namely Bitcoin XT and Bitcoin Unlimited, have been attempting to solve the problem, but have yet to gain majority traction. A new competitor has entered the mix, with what appears to be a great deal of industry support, and it's called Bitcoin Classic. The Bitcoin Classic variant is identical to Bitcoin Core, with one exception. It supports a doubled block size cap, from one megabyte to two megabytes. Who wants Bitcoin Classic? Mining pools like Bitmain Ant Pool, Bitfury, BW.com and K&C Miner have thus far signaled their support. Companies like Coinbase, Bitstamp, and Blockchain.info have done the same. Even some well-known personalities like the Bitcoin Jesus Roger Veer have signaled their support for the Bitcoin Classic variant. And who are the developers behind this variant? Well, there are six. They are Jonathan Tumen, Ahmed Badewala, Gavin Andriesen, Jeff Garzik, Marshall Long, and Olivier Jansons. A public voting section has been set up on the variant's homepage, BitcoinClassic.com, which Marshall Long says should serve as a governance aid. Many of the technical aspects of Bitcoin are being voted upon here, including everything from should Bitcoin's production cap remain 21 million, the vast majority say yes, to should Bitcoin's block time be halved to five minutes, the majority say no. Even more controversial elements from Bitcoin Core, like replaced by fee or segregated witness, seem to be getting a fair hearing within the Bitcoin Classic voting forum. So with all this seeming support, why only eight nodes? Well, that may come down to the fact that the easily downloadable version of Bitcoin Classic is not yet available, and Marshall Long tells us likely won't be until the end of this month, January. The code is compilable from GitHub, however, which would be what the existing nodes have done at this point. Will Bitcoin Classic gain traction and achieve its goal of becoming the Bitcoin main chain? Time will tell, and the Daily Decrypt will keep you updated. Today's episode has been brought to you by the Merkle, a news site whose motto is, in blockchain we trust. The Merkle offers technical analyses, most recently for coins like Made Safe and BitShares. They also offer interviews, most recently with the founder of the Lawnmower app and BitWage. You can check out more of their offerings at themerkle.com. If you like listening, you can check out the Daily Decrypt podcast on the LTB network, and have a great day!