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Jameson Lopp · 67w

Greg Maxwell's take: There isn't anything unusual or bad going on *with* Bitcoin Core. In my opinion there does appear to be a dishonest and inauthentic social media campaign *against* Bitcon Core....

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In the block-size-war miners had to do what nodes wanted. It‘s said this is important for decentralization.

Now, we have hear that core should force nodes to do what big miners want.

What am I missing?

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I think you are confusing consensus with policy. Each node can decide whether a block is valid. Each miner, or rather block template provider, decides what is placed into a block. What do you think the mempool is for?

Big miners have been and are going to do this anyway regardless of what nodes want, because nodes already accept much larger OP_RETURN sizes in mined blocks ... nodes already accept much larger OP_RETURN sizes in *mined blocks* ... This change *is not* about changing about what nodes accept in blo...

The block size war clarified the existing nature of the system, which is that miners can't unilaterally decide on a softfork against the wishes of nodes used by economic actors. This was just a fact that we learned, and not some agreement that was reached saying miners must obey people's wishes. In...