Hong Kong — Bitcoin will probably see another splintering off in November as miners and developers debate how best to scale the crypto-currency’s rapidly growing marketplace, says investor Roger Ver, CEO of Bitcoin.com. In recent weeks a group of miners — people who crunch complex math problems to generate and transact the digital currency — have split off from the legacy bitcoin to use a new version known as Bitcoin Cash. Ver, who has been widely dubbed "Bitcoin Jesus" for his proselytising on behalf of the crypto-currency, is moving some of his funds into the new offshoot as he anticipates what would be the second split in the currency of 2017. Bitcoin’s popularity has led to congestion in the trade, with transaction times and processing fees soaring. Debate over how to deal with the problem has divided the trading community, with some proposing boosting the number of transactions in each block that has to be verified by miners, and others advocating moving some information off th...
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