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The Blocksize Wars Review:

Increasing the block size limit became a divisive topic within the Bitcoin community from 2015-2017. This lead to the emergence of two opposing factions:

those who wanted to increase the block size limit (big blockers) and those who believed doing so would compromise the decentralization and security of the network (small blockers).

Small blockers were for the people 'controlling' Bitcoin and for computer science principles.

Big blockers were for businesses or large entities 'controlling' Bitcoin.

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Colin Sullivan 2y ago

This was the only period when I had existential concerns for #Bitcoin. BitMain was extremely powerful at the time and pushed all in.

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Derek Ross 2y ago

miners definitely had power. i didn't know that SlushPool was originally for Bitcoin XT.

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Colin Sullivan 2y ago

Neither did I, but they did have an equihash pool for quite some time

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