The Battle For Bitcoin: The Network’s First Major Civil War
Samson Mow recounts the Blocksize War between Big and Small Blockers and takes stock of the companies on the losing side of Bitcoin’s first civil war.This is an opinion editorial by Samson Mow, CEO of JAN3 and former CSO of Blockstream.The first major “civil war” in Bitcoin, which would decide the fate of the protocol, took place mainly between 2015 and 2017 and is referred to as the “Blocksize War” or sometimes the “Scaling Debate.” As Bitcoin became more popular and the blocks filled up, transactions became slower and more expensive. From divergent visions of Bitcoin, two camps emerged:....
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