The entire book is available for free online:
https://blog.bitmex.com/the-blocksize-war-chapter-1-first-strike/
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Big agree. Great read.
My #1 favorite Bitcoin book of all time.
Agreed ! , but it activates my PTSD
Not me. I was in the trenches, working for a company that supported big blocks. Also a mod on both r/btc and r/Bitcoin.
It was a stressful time, l but I'm glad I came to the correct conclusion on the matter.
Thank you for your service. I was young and didn’t understand much of what was going on. I decided to listen to people who seemed more level headed and truly cared about Bitcoin, even though it meant losing the friends who first introduced me to it.
thanks dad
An audio book would be awesome. Or is one already out and I missed it?
"The contention was essentially about four somewhat interrelated issues:
1. The level of blockspace available in each Bitcoin block Essentially, whether the eventual state should consist of surplus capacity available in the blocks, or consistently full blocks.
2. How to modify the rules of the Bitcoin protocol - Whether the rules on the validity of Bitcoin blocks should change relatively easily, or whether they should be more robust and only change in exceptional circumstances, with broad support from all interested parties.
3. The significance of the nodes of ordinary users - The extent to which, if any, validating nodes of the ordinary end users had a say in enforcing Bitcoin’s protocol rules.
4. Time preferences - Whether Bitcoin was like a tech startup which should prioritise gaining market share in the short term; or if it was a long-term project, a new global money, and one should think decades ahead when making decisions."