Bitcoin Cash [BCH] to possess all the rule-set changes of Bitcoin ABC in November hard fork

All set for the November hard fork of Bitcoin Cash [BCH], the development team at Bitcoin Unlimited has started implementing the ruleset changes of Bitcoin ABC. Amongst these preparations, the developers also published BU version 1.5.0 last Sunday. Furthermore, the hard fork is scheduled to take place on 15th November.

This version is believed to differ and contain many changes from the previous BU version released by the team. More so, the website run by BCH proponent Roger Ver also stated that the version is compatible with all the hard fork changes previously taken place on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain.

However, the team has also informed the community that it is still waiting for support from Bitcoin SV. On Twitter, Bitcoin Unlimited posted regarding the update and wrote:

“Bitcoin Unlimited’s #BitcoinCash version 1.5.0.0 is now available. Compatible with http://Bitcoincash.org spec, ergo with ABC 0.18.x for the 15 Nov 2018 general upgrade. “

In this version, the main changes made by the BU development team are the addition of configuration parameters to allow miners to specify their BIB135 votes, admission of multithreaded transaction admission to the mempool, parallelization of message processing, improvements to the Request Manager and more.

Through BIB135, the team wants the miners to be able to start voting on the features that are to be added in the BCH hard fork on 15th November. For the miners who do not support the Bitcoin Cash hard fork at all can also vote for the features they want in the protocol, stated Andrew Stone, the lead developer at Bitcoin Unlimited.

About the BIB135 voting system, Stone also mentioned that the features that are voted for will automatically be implemented. In his words:

“BIP135 voting does enable the features automatically, but after a 3-month 75% or greater “yes” and a 3-month “grace” (time to implement the feature) period — So plenty of time”