We’re witnessing another crypto civil war play out. The scaling challenge has created many divisive opinions about the best path forward, and it looks like the Bitcoin network will split as a result. Meanwhile, banks continue to ramp up investigation of the blockchain space; 2015 was the year of the internal working group, 2016 was the year of the proof-of-concept, and 2017 is the year of the pilot. Might 2018 be the year of the first live deployment?