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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.

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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.

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