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Block size war was an amazing thing. For the first time in history a group of volunteer open source developers stood up to billions of dollars venture capital, millions of users, most of the hashing power. It went to the market ...

And the developers won!

The reputation of developers in an open source project was worth more than 100mm, or even 1Bn, in VC money per person. That's why in bitcoin, reputation is more valuable than anything

It was a first in history, and it's why we still have open source bitcoin

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Siggy47 2y ago

Reading the book I am amazed at the arrogance of Gavin and the big miners, who basically believed node operators were irrelevant.

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Melvin Carvalho 2y ago

Yep, the BIP system was introduced to slow Gavin down

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w3ird_ 2y ago

what a dumb thing to say

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KingArctan 2y ago

Bitcoin is only interesting because node operators matter, thank God.

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