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The need to accommodate an increasing count of transactions per second contributed to a push by some in the community to create a hard fork to increase the block size limit.[11] This push came to a head in July 2017 when some members of the bitcoin community including Roger Ver felt that adopting BIP 91 without increasing the block-size limit favored people who wanted to treat bitcoin as a digital investment rather than as a transactional currency.[12][13] Bitcoin Cash supporters, compared to Bitcoin, were more committed to a medium of exchange function.[14] This push by some to increase the block size met a resistance. Since its inception up to July 2017, Bitcoin users had maintained a common set of rules for the cryptocurrency.