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The Blocksize War: The battle for control over Bitcoin’s protocol rules

The Blocksize War: The battle for control over Bitcoin’s protocol rules

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  • Create Date：2021-04-13 09:32:04
  • Update Date：2025-09-06
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  • Author：Jonathan Bier
  • ISBN：B08Z18GWD6
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Reviews

Saint Erik ，

What surprised me most about the war was how close the large blockers came to winning multiple times。 I realize how much of the properties and value propositions of Bitcoin weren't always clearly defined。 Core devs had to fight for these principles。 This book does a good job of breaking down the previous softfork activation mechanisms that were used to trigger segwit， you can use this to understand why the current activation mechanisms exist and how they came to be。 It makes understanding the ho What surprised me most about the war was how close the large blockers came to winning multiple times。 I realize how much of the properties and value propositions of Bitcoin weren't always clearly defined。 Core devs had to fight for these principles。 This book does a good job of breaking down the previous softfork activation mechanisms that were used to trigger segwit， you can use this to understand why the current activation mechanisms exist and how they came to be。 It makes understanding the how the upcoming Taproot updates will unfold clearer。 。。。more

Oskar Fridell ，

This cleared up a lot of things for me。 Great book。 Reads like the bitmex research blog posts

Olof J Edlund ，

Finally I feel I have the complete picture of what happenedI’ve been reading fragments of what happened on Reddit for many years but this filled in the gaps and explained the context。Really valuable read whether you are a big or small blocker although it is clear that the author is biased towards small blocks。I guess it is true that the history is written by the victors。

Felix Weis ，

A fantastic book offering a prime account of one of the most tumultuous yet defining periods in Bitcoin's young history。 The author eloquently recalls all the major main and side events from this "battle"。 It's a gripping narration from the start until the pinnacle in the summer/fall of 2017。 For those who were already part of Bitcoin back then， it’s a nice trip down memory lane。 With the benefit of hindsight， it becomes clear that the outcome of the blocksize war was far from certain and how ev A fantastic book offering a prime account of one of the most tumultuous yet defining periods in Bitcoin's young history。 The author eloquently recalls all the major main and side events from this "battle"。 It's a gripping narration from the start until the pinnacle in the summer/fall of 2017。 For those who were already part of Bitcoin back then， it’s a nice trip down memory lane。 With the benefit of hindsight， it becomes clear that the outcome of the blocksize war was far from certain and how even some altcoins were offering more learnings by proxy than the average bitcoin enthusiast might admit at first。 For those who joined Bitcoin after 2017， the book offers valuable insights explaining how we got here and why the defining beneficial properties of the Bitcoin protocol are *not* guaranteed by default。 I’m hopeful this book ensures the many lessons from Bitcoin’s heavily conflicted coming of age period （2015-2017） won’t be easily forgotten。 。。。more