James Lewis on Nostr: Finishing up the #blockSizeWar, and dang! This history is fascinating! This clarified ...
Finishing up the #blockSizeWar, and dang! This history is fascinating!
This clarified a bunch of things, and I am not terribly hopeful anymore that a block size hard fork will ever be possible on Bitcoin. It seems more and more that the only scaling route that doesn't get rid of self-custody is drive chains and lightning combined.
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