The Blocksize War

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1. abriosiFeb 2024
   Satoshi regularly took two spaces after a period. He uses vocabulary tied to British

   There is a famous British cryptographer called Adam Back, who is also the inventor of the proof of work method laid out on the paper “hashcash”. He also leaves two spaces after a period (or used too)

   I don’t think it really matters who created it. If you read the political story of bitcoin things look a lot clearer.

   “The Blocksize War: The Battle Over Who Controls Bitcoin's Protocol Rules” is a good entry point

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2. abriosiNov 2022
   Although I understand and upvoted I think the response is nuanced

   This is a good read:

   The Blocksize War: The Battle Over Who Controls Bitcoin's Protocol Rules https://g.co/kgs/4axiTg

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3. cflynnusSep 2022
   I don't think this is correct. The book "The Blocksize War" by Jonathan Bier does a good job of covering this topic.
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4. britneybitchJan 2023
   To change the algorithm, all three of miners, users, and nodes would have to agree to the change. If there is any disagreement, the network continues running under current consensus rules.

   In fact, a majority of miners did try to strongarm a fork 5 years ago, and they failed, because the users did not agree. There was even been a book written about it. https://www.amazon.com/Blocksize-War-controls-Bitcoins-proto...

   If they tried again, they would fail again -- literally nobody would agree to a fork whose purpose is to enrich miners at the users' expense.

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5. majinuubJun 2022
   > Project direction controlled entirely by core devs and the centralised exchanges that bless their output as "bitcoin" regardless of the fact it directly contradicts the original consensus mechanism for the project and the changes implemented by said devs fundamentally broke the utility of the project.

   Core devs and exchanges do not entirely control the project direction. Non-backwards compatible changes cannot be made to Bitcoin without the miners AND node operators adopting the new client. It takes the cooperation of the devs, miners, and node operators to make a hard fork. "The Blocksize War" by Jonathan Bier documents a bunch of failed hard fork attempts that were backed by a good number of devs, large miners, and large exchanges. They failed because the node operators were not on board.

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