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Yeah, the block-size war really proved who is in charge of what "upgrades" get implemented on Bitcoin; namely the folks who run full-nodes and actually use them for transacting.

It is a story of how the plebs who run the nodes successfully defended the network from having a block-size increase forced on them by the big miners and exchanges. An increase that would have had a centralizing effect, since it would have meant running a node would require beefier and more expensive hardware that maybe the average pleb could no longer afford.

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Constantin 1y ago

Now that's interesting!

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Dikaios1517 1y ago

There's a whole book about it: https://www.amazon.com/Blocksize-War-controls-Bitcoins-protocol/dp/B08YQMC2WM

Definitely worth the read.

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