Are Big Blockers BACK? (+ Strategic Bitcoin Reserve?)

December 21, 2024

We thought we won the Blocksize War in 2017 when Bitcoin Cash forked off — but now it sounds like some Bitcoin developers are picking up the same talking points? Charlie & Colin dissect what’s going on.

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