a16z’s Chris Dixon and Mike Hearn talked about all things bitcoin on the a16z Podcast a couple months ago, including an issue that has bitcoin developers on edge these days: the question of how best to scale the bitcoin blockchain before capacity runs out. Hearn and others offered a solution (Bitcoin XT) — in the parlance, a “hard fork” — and quite frankly, not everyone in the bitcoin community is in favor of this approach yet. Which we heard about from various online quarters!