If Nostr was around during the block size wars, would the bitcoin software have changed direction?
I learned recently that, while I was still new to bitcoin, the big blockers were kicked from the forums. No wonder I didn't really header much about it. Censorship hurt the community and caused a split on the network.
Unity is deeply important, and that was a bad call by the Core devs and forum mods. I think it's also bad that those two sets had such overlap.
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Eventually, so that it's not only the financial elite that can use L1, the block size does have to increase, and I think it's a matter of when and by how much, not whether or not. That's clear from the early Bitcoin design going back to Satoshi himself. The big blockers needed to be convinced of L2's being eventually viable options, not be censored and kicked out. That hurt the community.
Whoever told you this seems to have a very one-sided view of history. I suggest you read the book The Blocksize War.
In any case, Bitcoin has built-in conflict resolution. Those who wanted to scale an exponential network in a linear way lost, both technically and in the market.
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The big blockers sock puppet attacked the forums. You can call self defence censorship if you want… but like you say, you weren’t there.
Self defense or no, it was still censorship and caused the split. Like I've said elsewhere, I'm still not a big blocker, but I think I'm approaching a balanced view that is no longer "small block."
When I finish Roger Ver's book, Hijacking Bitcoin, I'll grab The Blocksize War.
Self defense or no, it was still censorship and caused the split. Like I've said elsewhere, I'm still not a big blocker, but I think I'm approaching a balanced view that is no longer "small block."
When I finish Roger Ver's book, Hijacking Bitcoin, I'll grab The Blocksize War.
It's often forgotten in the flamewars that it resulted in a block size increase on both sides of the fork. One of them with a hard fork and one with a soft fork (segwit).
There are quotes from Satoshi where he writes about bigger blocks but also ones where he writes about keeping blocks small. In the end Satoshi does not get to decide, the network participants do, which I think is one of the best aspects of Bitcoin.
the big blockers made criticisms of the lightning network that later turned out to be true. I still don't think that blocksize increases are completely necessary, but you definitely need consensus changes to facilitate better L2s. better to prioritize this. governments and banks have perverse incentives to stall development. they prefer for bitcoin to scale via custodians.
It’s free bitmex website and there’s an audio book of it on audible
