Happy Bitcoin Independence Day 🔥🫡

On this day in 2017, the USAF community movement (user activated soft fork) successfully executed the flag day to activate the Segwit upgrade after years of the Blocksize Wars and failure to reach any real agreement on a fork. Instead, an unwavering community of users running full nodes decided they would activate SegWit regardless, and miners can either accept Segwit transactions or not. Essentially the user community called the bluff of the SegWit2X business+mining group who continuously pushed as if they had control over what software would be running the Bitcoin network. Instead, the conviction & viral growth of the USAF movement was substantial enough to scare the majority of the hash power and businesses to abandon S2X to prevent forking themselves from the network of users.

Shortly after the USAF execution on the network, Bitmain, Ver & Co forked their own coin, Bitcoin Cash (Bcash) to remove segwit and produce 8MB blocks. Even though the debate continues in some corners of social media, this day marked the official end of the Blocksize Wars.