<p>A couple of months prior to a reward halving, the entire community is awake and excited about its prospects:  this has happened not only with bitcoin but will the other alt-chains out there.  So at this moment, bitcointalk, reddit, and most everyone is ready to listen and <em>actually upgrade</em>.  At other moments, many people might "just be going on with their lives" and not following the news. </p>

<p>Technically, due to bitcoin's and other alt-coins successful reward-halvings, there are slim chances of major issues in the reward-half process. That codebase is extremely solid.</p>

<p>It's especially important that <em>miners</em> upgrade, or a hardfork will be created, with all the possible inconsistencies that could happen, drop in computational power, not to mention user confusion and trust in the network.</p>

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2015-05-08T13:43:39.103Z
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linhares
<p>There's definitely no reason for that from a technical perspective. Success is entirely dependent on convincing all the wallets, nodes, and lastly miners in the network to make a breaking change to their software.</p>

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2015-05-06T11:40:55.907Z
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Claris
<p>Gavin Andresen said the best time to launch the block size increase update / hard fork would be the next reward halving (when mining discovery bounty would go from 25btc to 12.5btc).
Why has halving anything to do with increasing odds of success of a hard fork?</p>

<p>Source: Gaving Andersen said that at the Dev Core conference London on April 19th in his keynote "Why we need a bigger chain". There was a live broadcast of the event but I can't find a video link.</p>

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2015-05-06T09:10:57.450Z
It would be good to include a link to where he says that.
Jannes
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Why is halving the best time for block size increase hard fork?
EricLarch
# Why is halving the best time for block size increase hard fork?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-05-06)

Gavin Andresen said the best time to launch the block size increase update / hard fork would be the next reward halving (when mining discovery bounty would go from 25btc to 12.5btc).
Why has halving anything to do with increasing odds of success of a hard fork?

Source: Gaving Andersen said that at the Dev Core conference London on April 19th in his keynote "Why we need a bigger chain". There was a live broadcast of the event but I can't find a video link.

**Tags:** blockchain-fork, block-size-increase

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: It would be good to include a link to where he says that.  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2015-05-08. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

A couple of months prior to a reward halving, the entire community is awake and excited about its prospects: this has happened not only with bitcoin but will the other alt-chains out there. So at this moment, bitcointalk, reddit, and most everyone is ready to listen and *actually upgrade*. At other moments, many people might "just be going on with their lives" and not following the news.

Technically, due to bitcoin's and other alt-coins successful reward-halvings, there are slim chances of major issues in the reward-half process. That codebase is extremely solid.

It's especially important that *miners* upgrade, or a hardfork will be created, with all the possible inconsistencies that could happen, drop in computational power, not to mention user confusion and trust in the network.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2015-05-06. Score: 2

There's definitely no reason for that from a technical perspective. Success is entirely dependent on convincing all the wallets, nodes, and lastly miners in the network to make a breaking change to their software.


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