Ya for sure, wasn’t trying to develop an opinion based on that article, but definitely something I want to learn more about. I feel like I understand the principles of Bitcoin, but am less confident with the technical/development side of things. E.g. patches, improvements, core development, etc.
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You could learn to read code and code like #[4] did. Although that’s a long route. As far as that article is concerned I would revisit the Blocksize wars and the UASF in 2017.