Bitcoin Node Runner

Bitcoin XT and the Start of the Blocksize War | Bitcoin Node Runner 006

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PerkINsights and BitLovin get into the meat of The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier, starting with Bitcoin XT, the proposal from Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen that would have taken the block size from 1 megabyte to 8 and doubled it every two years after that. We look at how a Bitcoin improvement proposal actually moves through the network, from publishing to release to activation by miner…