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Block Size War

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Governance conflict over scaling strategy and how social consensus resolved protocol direction.

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Curated resources (4)

• Bitcoin Optech Topic: Segregated Witness (article) Technical and historical context around SegWit.
• BIP 148: UASF SegWit Activation (article) Primary-source proposal central to the activation conflict.
• BIP 91: Reduced Threshold SegWit MASF (article) Primary-source activation mechanism that shaped the conflict timeline.
• The Blocksize War (book) Definitive narrative history of the scaling conflict, coalition dynamics, and UASF era.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Early Bitcoin History
• Soft Forks vs Hard Forks

Direct dependents (3)

• Bitcoin as Social Technology
• SegWit Activation
• User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF)

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