Blocksize War
The Blocksize War was a multi-year dispute over how Bitcoin should scale and who ultimately determines the network’s rules, culminating in the 2017 SegWit activation and failure of SegWit2x.
Why it matters
The Blocksize War was a multi-year dispute over how Bitcoin should scale and who ultimately determines the network’s rules, culminating in the 2017 SegWit activation and failure of SegWit2x.
Key ideas
- The Blocksize War was a multi-year dispute over how Bitcoin should scale and who ultimately determines the network’s rules, culminating in the 2017 SegWit activation and failure of SegWit2x.
- This topic belongs to California Bitcoin’s history knowledge layer.
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