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So... increasing the block size worked?? I'm trying to understand why we built a whole complicated Layer 2 Lightning Network, with a basically impossible user experience and worse centralization issues, instead of just tweaking a configuration value?
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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 1y ago

Have you read [The Blocksize War](https://amzn.to/3vXF0CR)? (I haven't yet.)

From Ammous' book: Increased block sizes means more storage space needed for plebs to run nodes, leading to fewer nodes, leading to increased centralization, thus increasing possibility of a 51% attack. So the smaller blocksize is meant to improve decentralization of nodes, thus securing the network.

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Slipstream 1y ago

That's true, but only part of the story of the blocksize wars. Remember the winning side ("small blockers") also increased block size with segwit. This was much more a story of who controls the chain and what its purpose was than literally "should we tweak some config"

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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 1y ago

Ah, right. Will read it when used copies are closer to $10 USD than $20 USD...

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Slipstream 1y ago

I haven't read this either, but I'm curious now... might pick this up to see how much I forgot