Bitcoin's 'Segwit2x' Scaling Proposal: Core Developers Strike Critical Stance
Days after a widely-supported but contentious proposal for increasing bitcoin's transaction capacity was unveiled, technical details about the plan are coming to light. It might not be particularly surprising if you're very familiar with bitcoin's long-standing block-size debate, but the tentative code for what's now known as 'Segwitx2' hasn't been especially well-received by the project's open-source developer community.
I think any discussion about scaling requires some understanding of the players:
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/58ttsv/a_look_at_dcg_bitfurys_incestuous_ties_with_the/
very nice photo
The scaling debate rages on.