# The Blocksize War

*The battle for control over Bitcoin's protocol rules*

2023-06-20 | `bitcoin` `economics` `leadership`

> Jonathan Bier chronicles the Bitcoin blocksize war (2015-2017), exploring the key players, strategies, and ideological battles that shaped who controls Bitcoin's protocol.

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This book covers Bitcoin's blocksize war, which was waged from August 2015 to November 2017. On the surface the battle was about the amount of data allowed in each Bitcoin block, however it exposed much deeper issues, such as who controls Bitcoin's protocol rules. 

This book explores some of the major characters in the conflict and includes coverage, from both the front lines and behind the scenes, during some of the most acute phases of the struggle.

The account in this book includes discussions with the key players from both sides during the war, exploring their motivations, strategy and thought processes as the exhausting campaign progressed and developed.

## Chapters

1. First strike
2. March to war
3. Scaling I - Montreal
4. Scaling II - Hong Kong
5. SegWit
6. Lightning network
7. Bitcoin Classic
8. Hong Kong Round table
9. Faketoshi
10. The DAO
11. Scaling III - Milan
12. Bitcoin unlimited
13. Exchanges
14. ASICBoost
15. Dragons's Den
16. Litecoin
17. User - Activated softfork
18. New York agreement
19. Bitcoin Cash
20. SegWit2x
21. Victory

### Summary

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