The Blocksize WarJonathan Bier
The Blocksize War
The Battle for Control Over Bitcoin’s Protocol Rules
by Jonathan Bier · first published 2021
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I don't think this is correct. The book "The Blocksize War" by Jonathan Bier does a good job of covering this topic.
on “Merge soon” ↗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
on “Get your money off crypto.com immediately” ↗…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
on “Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011” ↗…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.
on “Bitcoin is the only coin the SEC Chair will call a commodity” ↗…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.
on “Banks Are Fleeing Crypto. Bitcoin Investors Should Be Worried” ↗