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Guy Swann · 2w
Did Jeffrey Epstein hijack Bitcoin? PART 1/7 This theory has been making the rounds lately - the Bcashers have been veritably drooling over it since the DOJ dump. It's time to actually go point by p...
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PART 2/7
What was the Blocksize War really about?
(and why couldn't we reach agreement to just "make it bigger?")

This is the nerdy stuff, but important to actually understand the history of all this - especially with the nonsense one will get from Bcashers on what the debate even was.

If you want to skip this, then just jump to the last 30 seconds. One common bcasher claim is that there was always consensus on making the blocks bigger and scaling limits were a completely made up issue. It's worth noting where the debate about scaling bitcoin truly began.

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Guy Swann · 2w
PART 3/7 Follow the Money What did Epstein invest in and what does it tell us about his view of all this? Did Blockstream really hijack Bitcoin so they could control Lightning and Liquid and be the dominate middlemen of the entire ecosystem? If so, how did it work out? https://v.nostr.build/K1OyE...
Omar Nazari · 2w
The Blocksize War was fundamentally about trade-offs between decentralization and scalability—those dismissing scaling concerns ignore how increasing blocksize impacts node accessibility. Your point on Bcasher revisionism is fair, though some technical debates were genuine. Reminds me of how ETF i...
G Force G · 2w
Must admit I've only ever heard the "bigger blocks was always satoshis answer to this problem." This makes more sense. Now I want to learn more about lightning itself.