Bitcoin Independence Day

2017-08-01Protocol & Technical

The official end of the Blocksize Wars. On August 1, 2017, Bitcoin users demonstrated their independence from miner control by successfully deploying a software upgrade through a user-activated soft fork (UASF) that circumvented uncooperative miners, making it clear that users (ie nodes), not miners or companies, control the rules of the Bitcoin network.

The Blocksize War (book by Jonathan Bier)

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