399 sats \ 2 replies \ @UnitOfAccount 12 Oct 2022 \ on: What's a fun fact you know about Bitcoin? bitcoin
From memory;
During the 2017 hash wars an anonymous Bitcoin OG posted a very thought-out criticism of a simple block size increase and gave a great explanation of why LN and other second layer solutions will be the most viable method for Bitcoin to scale to the masses whilst retaining and promoting decentralisation on the network over the long-term. He signed the message with a transaction from an old wallet to validate his claim of being a Bitcoin OG. The original text was posted on justpaste.it and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to find it again, I wouldn’t know where to begin looking for it and I only stumbled across it by chance as I was researching arguments from both sides of the scaling debate.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @NEEDcreations OP 12 Oct 2022
Wow, thanks for sharing this piece of history. The Blocksize wars book was a fun read but I don't remember hearing about this specific post.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @UnitOfAccount 12 Oct 2022
Sadly you’ll just have to rely on this anonymous Bitcoiners fading recollection of the post. Like I said, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to relocate that post.
It certainly did help me a lot at the time though.
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