The top priority for Bitcoin Cash is to keep improving it as a great form of money. They want to make it more reliable, more salable, with low fees and ready for rapid growth. It should “just work”, without complications or hassles. It should be ready for global adoption by mainstream users, and provide a solid foundation that businesses can rely on.
A secondary goal is to enable enhanced features, when it is safe to do so. We can facilitate use-cases such as timestamping, representative tokens, and more complex transaction scripting, when these features do not detract from the primary money function.
The next steps they plan to take are:
- To schedule a protocol upgrade when Median Time Past reaches timestamp 1526400000 (May 15, 2018), and a subsequent upgrade for 6-months later when Median Time Past reaches 1542300000 (November 15, 2018).
- To finalize the code and features to be included in the upgrade by three months prior to the upgrade (Feb 15, 2018).
- Some of the features tentatively planned for the next upgrade are:
- Increase default block-size limit, and move towards adaptive block size limit
- Move toward canonical transaction order, perhaps removing transaction ordering consensus rule as a first step.
- Improved Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm
- Re-activate some deactivated Opcodes, and move toward adding protocol extension points to facilitate future Opcode upgrades Note that the specifics which features will be included is dependent on further discussion, implementation, and testing.