The Blocksize War: The battle for control over Bitcoin’…
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A blog-like quick read for readers who are already down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. It presents a vivid documentation of why this civil war started, how it progressed (with arguments of both sides presented in a balanced manner), and why the “Core” side eventually won. As Andreas Antonopoulos once said: the biggest risk to Bitcoin, is fragmentation within the community and a dilution of the fundamental principles.
Elon Musk who (jokingly?) tweeted that Dogecoin (a fork of Litecoin, which is a fork of Bitcoin) could compete better by altering its blocksize and block time may consider having a read of this episode of Bitcoin’s history.