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THE BLOCKSIZE WAR
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Date: 2023-06-20
Tags: bitcoin, economics, leadership
URL: https://chemaclass.com/readings/the-blocksize-war/
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Jonathan Bier chronicles the Bitcoin blocksize war (2015-2017), exploring the
key players, strategies, and ideological battles that shaped who controls
Bitcoin's protocol.

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
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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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