I think this book presents a false narrative promoted by Adam Back in which non-economic node runners congratulate themselves for taking control of the protocol. In this victory lap, it would be embarrasing to admit that a block size increase was unavoidable.
Follwings are just fact related to SegWit.
1. SegWit fixes tx malleability.
2. SegWit increases size of the block.
Obviously, 1. is a good thing. And then, I am little bit confused.
Is the increased blocksize really a good thing?
Sure, we should draw a line somewhere. It can be a tradeoff between abroad distributed nodes and better user experiences.
I'm just curious, because the book "The Blocksize War" is illustrating that it is a just good thing.
#asknostr
https://blog.bitmex.com/the-blocksize-war-chapter-5-scaling-ii-segwit/