I'm confident continuing to work towards SegWit as a 2MB-ish soft-fork in the short term with some plans on what a hard fork should look like if we can form broad consensus can go a long way to resolving much of the contention we've seen. - Matt Corallo, Feb 2016

"I believe we, today, have a unique opportunity to begin to close the book on the short-term scaling debate.First a little background. The scaling debate that has been gripping the Bitcoin community for the past half year has taken an interesting turn in 2016. Until recently, there have been two distinct camps - one proposing a significant change to the consensus-enforced block size limit to allow for more on-blockchain transactions and the other opposing such a change, suggesting instead that scaling be obtained by adding more flexible systems on top of the blockchain. At this point, however, the entire Bitcoin community seems to have unified around a single vision - roughly 2MB of transactions per block, whether via Segregated Witness or via a hard fork, is something that can be both technically supported and which adds more headroom before second-layer technologies must be in place. Additionally, it seems that the vast majority of the community agrees that segregated witness should be implemented in the near future and that hard forks will be a necessity at some point, and I don't believe it should be controversial that, as we have never done a hard fork before, gaining experience by working towards a hard fork now is a good idea."http://bit.ly/2gCycjl via /r/Bitcoin http://bit.ly/2gPlbWi