matteopellegrini on Nostr: imagine that the blocksize war was won by big blockers few years later blocks are ...
imagine that the blocksize war was won by big blockers
few years later blocks are 10,20,30 mb, they’re full of spam, and running a node requires a 5tb hardrive
and somebody comes along proposing to impose a 4mb block size limit in consensus
would you have called it censorship? An attack on Bitcoin? a betrayal of neutrality?
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