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Title: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on January 31, 2016, 10:01:56 AM Let's make a reference thread as a handy guide to the Blocksize War saga! https://i.imgur.com/htM33IV.jpg Everyone knows that Bitcoin runs on drama 8/10/10 How do we prevent Bitcoin forks (or should we)? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=779 9/30/10 Re: Prioritized transactions, and tx fees https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1314.msg14750#msg14750 10/3/10 [PATCH] increase block size limit https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.0 1/3/13 The MAX_BLOCK_SIZE fork https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140233.0 2/18/13 How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=144895.0 3/11/13 In re Bitcoin Devs are idiots https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152027 4/19/13 Roger Ver and Jon Matonis pushed aside now that Bitcoin is becoming mainstream https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=181168.0 5/17/13 New video: Why the blocksize limit keeps Bitcoin free and decentralized https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=208200.msg2180232 6/19/14 Bitcoin and Voting Power http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/19/bitcoin-and-voting-power/ 7/25/14 Share your ideas on what to replace the 1 MB block size limit with https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=709970.0 10/7/14 Gavin Andresen Proposes Scalability Roadmap and Hardfork http://qntra.net/2014/10/gavin-andressen-proposes-scalability-roadmap-and-hardfork/ 1/6/15 Looking before the Scaling Up Leap http://gavintech.blogspot.ca/2015/01/looking-before-scaling-up-leap.html 1/10/15 The Hard Fork Missile Crisis http://qntra.net/2015/01/the-hard-fork-missile-crisis 1/10/15 Fork off https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=919629.0 1/12/15 Twenty Megabytes testing results http://gavintech.blogspot.ca/2015/01/twenty-megabytes-testing-results.html 1/12/15 Let's address some of the more common pseudo-arguments raised by the very stupid people that like the Gavin scamcoin proposal http://trilema.com/2015/lets-address-some-of-the-more-common-pseudo-arguments-raised-by-the-very-stupid-people-that-like-the-gavin-scamcoin-proposal/ 1/30/15 Bitcoin 20MB Fork https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=941331.0 2/4/15 Permanently keeping the 1MB (anti-spam) restriction is a great idea ... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=946236.0 2/20/15 Re: Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68655.msg10220711#msg10220711 5/5/15 The capacity cliff https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-capacity-cliff-586d1bf7715e 5/7/15 Crash landing https://medium.com/@octskyward/crash-landing-f5cc19908e32 5/11/15 Bitcoin faces a crossroads, needs an effective decision-making process https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/05/11/bitcoin-faces-a-crossroads-needs-an-effective-decision-making-process/ 5/29/15 Gavin Threatens to Quit Bitcoin Development and Join Hearn's Fork http://qntra.net/2015/05/gavin-threatens-to-quit-bitcoin-development-and-join-hearns-fork/ 5/30/15 [Bitcoin-development] soft-fork block size increase (extension blocks) Re: Proposed alternatives to the 20MB stepfunction https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-May/008356.html 6/2/15 What Have The Core Bitcoin Devs Ever Done For Us? https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3bx44a/what_have_the_core_bitcoin_devs_ever_done_for_us 6/10/15 Mike Hearn: In about 1-2 weeks, Bitcoin XT will include support for 20mb blocks https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1086736.0 6/11/15 The Bitcoin Gauntlet https://medium.com/bitcoin-think/the-bitcoin-gauntlet-e9e721297aca 6/13/15 Hearn's Worst Case Scenario: Checkpoints in XT to "ignore the longest chain" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1089283.0 6/22/15 Bitcoin's Ironic Crisis https://medium.com/@bramcohen/bitcoin-s-ironic-crisis-32226a85e39f 6/23/15 How the Bitcoin experiment might fail https://medium.com/@sdaftuar/how-the-bitcoin-experiment-might-fail-7f6c24f99ecf 7/8/15 "Bitcoin" XT Status Update https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1115016.0 7/28/15 Analyzing the 2013 Bitcoin fork: centralized decision-making saved the day http://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/07/28/analyzing-the-2013-bitcoin-fork-centralized-decision-making-saved-the-day/ 8/11/15 I ran Bitcoin Core for >3 years, and I turned it off today https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1150481.0 8/15/15 Big block support observer https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1153957.0 8/15/15 Why is Bitcoin forking? https://medium.com/faith-and-future/why-is-bitcoin-forking-d647312d22c1 8/17/15 Not Bitcoin XT https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1154520.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1154520.0) 8/18/15 Bitcoin XT has code which downloads your IP address to facilitate blacklisting https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1156489.0 8/18/15 MeniRosenfeld comments on "It's time for a break: About the recent mess & temporary new rules" https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3h9cq4/its_time_for_a_break_about_the_recent_mess/cu6udfe 8/19/15 What happens when the managers and investors ignore the engineers and scientists https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/634131738063581184 8/19/15 Bitcoin Battered After "Governance Coup" http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-19/bitcoin-battered-after-governance-coup 8/19/15 Adam Back Says the Bitcoin Fork Is a Coup http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/the-bitcoin-for-is-a-coup 8/20/15 Nuclear option of forking the codebase should only be used as a last resort https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3hp190/charlie_lee_nuclear_option_of_forking_the/ 8/26/15 Bitcoin XT - Officially #REKT (also goes for BIP101 fraud) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1162684.0 8/27/15 BIP101 implementation flaws http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/08/bip101-implementation-flaws.html 8/27/15 An XT FAQ https://medium.com/@octskyward/an-xt-faq-38e78aa32ff0 8/28/15 Why I support BIP101 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1164464 9/9/15 Measuring Decentralization http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/measuring-decentralization/ 9/14/15 Supermajority and BIP101 activation, part 2 http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/09/supermajority-and-bip101-activation.html 9/14/15 Adam Back on the Overlooked Importance of Full Nodes in Bitcoin http://coinjournal.net/adam-back-on-the-overlooked-importance-of-full-nodes-in-bitcoin/ 12/7/15 [bitcoin-dev] Capacity increases for the Bitcoin system. https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/011865.html 12/16/15 [bitcoin-dev] Block size: It's economics & user preparation & moral hazard https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/011974.html 1/1/16 Time for Bitcoin Users to Reclaim Their Voice http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/01/03/time-for-bitcoin-user-voice/ 1/2/16 Bitcoin's Elegant Upgrade Mechanism: Miner Voting https://medium.com/@barmstrong/bitcoin-s-elegant-upgrade-mechanism-miner-voting-66faa35d27af 1/2/16 bitcoin "unlimited" seeks review https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1312371.0 1/9/16 Analysis and list of top big blocks shills (XT #REKT ignorers) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1318519 1/14/16 Why Bitcoin's Decentralization Matters http://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2016/01/14/decentralization/ 1/14/16 The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7 1/14/16 A Bitcoin Believer?s Crisis of Faith http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/business/dealbook/the-bitcoin-believer-who-gave-up.html 1/16/16 ToominCoin aka "Bitcoin_Classic" #R3KT https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1330553.0 1/16/16 Whiny Ragequitting https://medium.com/@bramcohen/whiny-ragequitting-cab164b1e88 1/18/16 Hearn: 8MB "obviously wasn't based on any kind of scientific analysis" https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mike_hearn&next=10921219 1/18/16 KEEP CALM AND BITCOIN ON https://medium.com/@BitFuryGroup/keep-calm-and-bitcoin-on-4f29d581276 1/23/16 Lesson learned from the Classic coup attempt or why Core needs to prepare a GPU only PoW https://medium.com/@vcorem/lesson-learned-from-the-classic-coup-attempt-or-why-core-needs-to-prepare-a-gpu-only-pow-6a9afe18e4b0 1/26/16 How to Use Open Source and Shut the Fuck Up At the Same Time https://hueniverse.com/2016/01/26/how-to-use-open-source-and-shut-the-fuck-up-at-the-same-time/ 1/27/16 Wondering out loud: Which should Chinese miners support - Core, Classic or another? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1343716.0 1/28/16 The Governance of Anarchists https://medium.com/@PanteraCapital/the-governance-of-anarchists-blockchain-letter-january-2016-798842f468de 1/29/16 Hard Fork Risks and Why 95% Should be the Standard http://bitledger.info/hard-fork-risks-and-why-95-should-be-the-standard/ 1/29/16 A trip to the moon requires a rocket with multiple stages or otherwise the rocket equation will eat your lunch... packing everyone in clown-car style into a trebuchet and hoping for success is right out. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/438hx0/a_trip_to_the_moon_requires_a_rocket_with/ 2/2/16 Scaling Bitcoin: The Great Block Size Debate https://blog.coinbase.com/scaling-bitcoin-the-great-block-size-debate-d2cba9021db0 2/5/16 [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Increase block size limit to 2 megabytes http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-February/012358.html 2/8/16 PSA: Clearing up some misconceptions about full nodes https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/44rx5k/psa_clearing_up_some_misconceptions_about_full/ 2/9/16 Why My Faith in Bitcoin has Been Restored http://bravetheworld.com/2016/02/09/faith-bitcoin-restored/ 2/10/16 A Call for Consensus https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/a-call-for-consensus-d96d5560d8d6 2/11/16 Hard Fork Conspiracy Treacherous http://www.riddellwilliams.com/blog/articles/post/hard-fork-conspiracy-treacherous 2/11/16 Ed Felten: What does the White House think of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin? https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-White-House-think-of-cryptocurrencies-such-as-bitcoin 2/12/16 Double Billing is not ?Healthy Competition? https://medium.com/@bramcohen/double-billing-is-not-healthy-competition-b698c345b11e 2/16/16 I disapprove of Bitcoin splitting, but I?ll defend to the death its right to do it http://fieryspinningsword.com/2016/02/13/i-dont-want-bitcoin-to-split-but-ill-defend-to-death-its-right-to-do-it/ 2/20/16 Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-consensus-266d475a61ff 2/22/16 Peter Todd Disputes Claim That 75% Majority Hard Forks are Safe http://coinjournal.net/peter-todd-disputes-claim-that-75-majority-hard-forks-are-safe/ 2/22/16 Segregated Witness and Hardware Wallets https://medium.com/@Ledger/segregated-witness-and-hardware-wallets-cc88ba532fb3 2/22/16 Lesser known reasons to keep blocks small, in the words of Bitcoin Core developers https://medium.com/@elliotolds/lesser-known-reasons-to-keep-blocks-small-in-the-words-of-bitcoin-core-developers-44861968185e 2/22/16 Coinbase CEO Rejects Proposal for Bitcoin Hard Fork in 2017 http://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-ceo-rejects-bitcoin-hard-fork/ 2/23/16 Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus: Wladimir Says ?I?m All For It? http://coinjournal.net/bitcoin-roundtable-consensus-wladimir-says-im/ 2/25/16 Blocksonly mode BW savings, the limits of efficient block xfer, and better relay https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1377345.0 2/26/16 MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito Speaks Up on Bitcoin Technical Development Environment http://www.nasdaq.com/article/mit-media-lab-director-joi-ito-speaks-up-on-bitcoin-technical-development-environment-cm585158 3/4/16 What Happened At The Satoshi Roundtable https://medium.com/the-coinbase-blog/what-happened-at-the-satoshi-roundtable-6c11a10d8cdf 3/4/16 Coinbase CEO: Core Team is a "Systemic Threat" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1387667 3/4/16 Boycott Coinbase to stop the attack against Bitcoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1387457.0 3/14/16 A date with Sybil https://medium.com/@laurentmt/a-date-with-sybil-bdb33bd91ac3 3/15/16 BTCC's Samson Mow on Block Size: The Bitcoin Community Must See Through Manipulation, Keep Calm and Write Code https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/btcc-s-sampson-mow-on-block-size-the-bitcoin-community-must-see-through-manipulation-keep-calm-and-write-code-1458061357 3/21/16 Contentious Blocksize Wars https://medium.com/@slush/contentious-blocksize-wars-6fd7c07f9d90 3/22/16 A Closer Look at Reddit Vote Manipulation About Bitcoin https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/a-closer-look-at-reddit-vote-manipulation-about-bitcoin-1458682699 3/31/16 BTCC Funding, Development Report, and Hard-Forks https://petertodd.org/2016/btcc-funding 4/2/16 Clearing the FUD around Segwit http://www.achow101.com/2016/04/Segwit-FUD-Clearup 4/7/16 Bitcoin Hard Forks May Become Safer With User Voting https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-hard-forks-may-become-safer-with-user-voting-1460040031 4/12/16 Peter Todd Worried About Those Willing to ?Fork Bitcoin at All Costs? https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/peter-todd-worried-about-those-willing-to-fork-bitcoin-at-all-costs-1460475488 4/14/16 The Power of Schnorr: The Signature Algorithm to Increase Bitcoin's Scale and Privacy https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/the-power-of-schnorr-the-signature-algorithm-to-increase-bitcoin-s-scale-and-privacy-1460642496/ 4/15/16 Bitcoin Core 0.12.1 Released, Major Step Forward for Scalability https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-core-released-major-step-forward-for-scalability-1460762378 4/18/16 Supporters of 2 MB Bitcoin Blocks Unable to Convince Miners to Hard Fork in Beijing Meeting https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/supporters-of-mb-bitcoin-blocks-unable-to-convince-miners-to-hard-fork-in-beijing-meeting-1461004264 4/20/16 Bitcoin scaling tradeoffs with Adam Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEZAlNBJjA0 4/29/16 Roger Ver tries to intentionally spend unconfirmed bitcoins from a zero fee transaction, which fails, and then blames failure on technology. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4h3agw/roger_ver_tries_to_intentionally_spend/ 5/2/16 FYI, @gavinandresen's commit access just got removed - Core team members are concerned that he may have been hacked. https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/727078284345917441 5/6/16 Dazed and confused, but trying to continue https://laanwj.github.io/2016/05/06/hostility-scams-and-moving-forward.html 5/11/16 Gavin Andresen is Not Giving Up on Bitcoin Classic http://coinjournal.net/gavin-andresen-not-giving-bitcoin-classic/ 5/12/16 https://i.imgur.com/jE3W4Fs.jpg (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4iy8s1/bitcoin_civil_war/) 5/15/16 An Anatomy of Bitcoin's Great Scaling Debate http://www.coindesk.com/anatomy-bitcoin-scaling-debate/ 5/16/16 Almost half of the Classic nodes just disappeared https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4jo15f/almost_half_of_the_classic_nodes_just_disappeared/ 5/20/16 Mike Hearn: Bitcoin's "Young, Unripened Democracy" Suffers Under Authoritarian Developers https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/mike-hearn-bitcoin-democracy/ 5/23/16 Antpool Will Not Run SegWit Without Bitcoin Block Size Increase Hard Fork https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/antpool-will-not-run-segwit-without-block-size-increase-hard-fork-1464028753 5/24/16 Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency https://medium.com/the-coinbase-blog/ethereum-is-the-forefront-of-digital-currency-5300298f6c75 5/25/16 Bitcoin Protocol Role Models http://gavinandresen.ninja/bitcoin-protocol-role-models 6/1/16 Original vision of Bitcoin http://blog.oleganza.com/post/145248960618/original-vision-of-bitcoin 6/14/16 Rick Falkvinge on Segwit: I think it's a dead-end. It's over-engineering. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4nzona/rick_falkvinge_on_segwit_i_think_its_a_deadend/ 6/14/16 The Big-Blocker Fallacy https://medium.com/@rextar4444/the-big-blocker-fallacy-dd5c67ad6c12 6/28/16 Time to End the Block-Size Blockade https://fee.org/articles/time-to-end-the-block-size-blockade/ 8/8/16 Segregated Witness and aligning economic incentives with resource costs https://segwit.org/segregated-witness-and-aligning-economic-incentives-with-resource-costs-7d987b135c00 9/14/16 Stop fuckin' around, fork the son-of-a-bitch already https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1616856 10/23/16 A Future Led by Bitcoin Unlimited is a Centralized Future https://blog.sia.tech/a-future-led-by-bitcoin-unlimited-is-a-centralized-future-e48ab52c817a 11/21/16 The artificial block size limit https://medium.com/@bergealex4/the-artificial-block-size-limit-1b69aa5d9d4 1/19/17 Why Segregated Witness will make 2017 Bitcoin's best year yet https://segwit.org/why-segragated-witness-will-make-2017-bitcoins-best-year-yet-527e391c93cb 1/21/17 The SegWit Debate https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5pcar2/the_segwit_debate/ 1/27/17 How Bitcoin Unlimited Users May End Up on Different Blockchains https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/how-bitcoin-unlimited-users-may-end-different-blockchains/ 2/1/17 Why Bitcoin Unlimited?s "Emergent Consensus" Is a Gamble https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/why-bitcoin-unlimiteds-emergent-consensus-gamble/ 2/5/17 Happy Bitcoin Coder https://medium.com/@nicolasdorier/happy-bitcoin-coder-2def905d5929 2/9/17 Money, blockchains, and social scalability https://unenumerated.blogspot.jp/2017/02/money-blockchains-and-social-scalability.html 2/10/17 Scaling Bitcoin: Reflections from the DCG Portfolio https://medium.com/@DCGco/scaling-bitcoin-reflections-from-the-dcg-portfolio-35b9a065b2a4 2/11/17 The DCG is not Bitcoin. You are Bitcoin https://hackernoon.com/the-dcg-is-not-bitcoin-you-are-bitcoin-c57e2d2ce846 2/12/17 Complete Review on SegWit vs. Bitcoin Unlimited: Arguments and Clarity https://cointelegraph.com/news/complete-review-on-segwit-vs-bitcoin-unlimited-arguments-and-clarity 1/21/17 The SegWit Debate https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5pcar2/the_segwit_debate/ 1/27/17 How Bitcoin Unlimited Users May End Up on Different Blockchains https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/how-bitcoin-unlimited-users-may-end-different-blockchains/ 1/29/17 bitcoin.com loses 13.2BTC trying to fork the network: Untested and buggy BU creates an oversized block, Many BU node banned, the HF fails https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5qwtr2/bitcoincom_loses_132btc_trying_to_fork_the/ 1/30/17 LOL! Miners running latest BU need to set their max block size lower than Core to avoid mining invalid blocks https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5qxrnt/lol_miners_running_latest_bu_need_to_set_their/ 1/31/17 So who the hell is still supporting BU? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1771911.0 1/31/17 Statement regarding excessive block by Bitcoin Unlimited software 29 Jan 2017 https://bitco.in/forum/threads/buir-2017-01-29-statement-regarding-excessive-block-by-bitcoin-unlimited-software-29-jan-2017.1790/ 2/3/17 Bitcoin Market Needs Big Blocks, Says Founder of BTC.TOP Mining Pool https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-market-needs-big-blocks-says-founder-btc-top-mining-pool/ 2/3/17 Segregated Witness (SW) vs Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5rs55l/segregated_witness_sw_vs_bitcoin_unlimited_bu/ 2/4/17 Gavin Andresen supporting an attack on the minority chain in case BU fork with majority hashpower https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5s2c2z/gavin_andresen_supporting_an_attack_on_the/ 2/7/17 Capitalist View on a Bitcoin Hard Fork https://alistairmilne.com/2017/02/07/capitalist-view-on-a-bitcoin-hard-fork/ 2/10/17 Scaling Bitcoin: Reflections from the DCG Portfolio https://medium.com/@DCGco/scaling-bitcoin-reflections-from-the-dcg-portfolio-35b9a065b2a4 2/11/17 The DCG is not Bitcoin. You are Bitcoin https://hackernoon.com/the-dcg-is-not-bitcoin-you-are-bitcoin-c57e2d2ce846 2/12/17 Complete Review on SegWit vs. Bitcoin Unlimited: Arguments and Clarity https://cointelegraph.com/news/complete-review-on-segwit-vs-bitcoin-unlimited-arguments-and-clarity 2/20/17 Why Bitcoin Will Get Scaling Without Segwit or Large Blocks https://medium.com/@jimmysong/why-bitcoin-will-get-scaling-without-segwit-or-large-blocks-772799fab021 2/22/17 BTCC's Bobby Lee: Why Chinese Bitcoin Miners Are Not Happy With SegWit https://cointelegraph.com/news/btccs-bobby-lee-why-chinese-bitcoin-miners-are-not-happy-with-segwit 2/23/17 Understanding the risk of BU (bitcoin unlimited) https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5vo5wi/understanding_the_risk_of_bu_bitcoin_unlimited/ 2/25/17 Moving towards user activated soft fork activation https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1805060.0 2/26/17 The Bitcoin Balance of Power Poster https://medium.com/@AudunGulbrands1/the-bitcoin-balance-of-power-poster-91271ab31b86 2/27/17 Why Bitcoin Transaction Capacity Doesn’t Really Matter https://medium.com/@jimmysong/why-bitcoin-transaction-capacity-doesnt-really-matter-fddcc0c9f021 3/1/17 Bitcoin: no need to keep talking http://bravetheworld.com/2017/03/01/bitcoin-talking/ 3/1/17 The Bitcoin Filibuster https://medium.com/@beautyon_/the-bitcoin-filibuster-c12231f6feb3 3/2/17 Why I'm resigning as a 'moderator' of /r/btc https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5x3x7r/why_im_resigning_as_a_moderator_of_rbtc/ 3/3/17 The Core Development Scalability Roadmap https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5xa5fa/the_core_development_scalability_roadmap/ 3/4/17 The Origins of the Blocksize Debate https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5xg7f8/the_origins_of_the_blocksize_debate/ 3/6/17 Bitcoin Realism or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 1MB Blocks https://medium.com/@jimmysong/bitcoin-realism-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-1mb-blocks-c191c35e74cb 3/7/17 MIT Expo Spotlights Bitcoin Tech Concerns http://www.coindesk.com/save-the-nodes-mit-bitcoin-expo-spotlights-tech-challenges/ 3/8/17 Economic Implications of Chain Splits and Resolution https://medium.com/@alpalpalp/economic-implications-of-chain-splits-and-resolution-539c5fd0bc0c 3/8/17 Chain Splits and Resolutions https://medium.com/@alpalpalp/chain-splits-and-resolutions-d3398bddf4ab 3/9/17 How Bitcoin Unlimited ( $BTU) will be erased https://medium.com/@WhalePanda/how-bitcoin-unlimited-btu-will-be-erased-169977ecb3bb 3/9/17 Coinbase, Bitfinex Would List Bitcoin Unlimited As “Altcoin” After Soft Fork: Mow https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-bitfinex-would-list-bitcoin-unlimited-as-altcoin-after-soft-fork-mow 3/10/17 Bitcoiners, get your priorities straight. https://medium.com/@thepiratewhocantbenamed/bitcoiners-get-your-priorities-straight-a2297b870095 3/10/17 On the recent bout of malleated transactions https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5yojyp/on_the_recent_bout_of_malleated_transactions/ 3/10/17 Reflections on Scaling and Bitcoin Protocol Development https://cryptoinsider.com/reflections-scaling-bitcoin-protocol-development/ 3/11/17 Nobody Understands Bitcoin (And That's OK) http://www.coindesk.com/nobody-understands-bitcoin-thats-ok/ 3/12/17 Bitcoin Miners Signal Revolt Amid Sluggish Blockchain https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-13/bitcoin-miners-signal-revolt-in-push-to-fix-sluggish-blockchain 3/12/17 Flag day activation of segwit [shaolinfry] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-March/013714.html 3/13/17 The Road to One Megabyte https://medium.com/@bergealex4/the-road-to-one-megabyte-b3912a9dee3e 3/13/17 How to destroy bitcoin in 8 steps: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5z4l3e/how_to_destroy_bitcoin_in_8_steps 3/13/17 Ways to enhance Post-fork withering of Core chain [/u/gavinandresen] https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5z7wzj/ways_to_enhance_postfork_withering_of_core_chain/dewynk0/ 3/14/17 Divisive ‘Bitcoin Unlimited’ Solution Crashes After Bug Discovered https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-15/divisive-bitcoin-unlimited-solution-crashes-after-bug-exploit 3/14/17 CoinDesk Explainer: The Bitcoin Unlimited Debate http://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-explainer-bitcoin-unlimited-debate/ 3/14/17 Bitcoin is. And that is enough. https://medium.com/bitcoin-think/bitcoin-is-and-that-is-enough-e3116870eed1 3/14/17 Why Bitcoin Node Statistics Aren’t Trustworthy https://medium.com/@jimmysong/why-bitcoin-node-statistics-arent-trustworthy-5882d9a9d2bf 3/15/17 Why Bitcoin Unlimited should be correctly classified as an ‘attempted robbery’ of Bitcoin, not a fork https://medium.com/@Coinosphere/why-bitcoin-unlimited-should-be-correctly-classified-as-an-attempted-robbery-of-bitcoin-not-a-9355d075763c 3/15/17 Someone Wants to Stick a Fork in Bitcoin https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-16/someone-wants-to-stick-a-fork-in-bitcoin 3/15/17 Community Reacts to Bitcoin Unlimited Bug, Calls For SegWit Activation https://cointelegraph.com/news/community-reacts-to-bitcoin-unlimited-bug-calls-for-segwit-activation 3/15/17 'Super UASF': Could a Clever Idea Break Bitcoin's Scaling Deadlock? http://www.coindesk.com/could-the-super-uasf-break-bitcoins-scaling-deadlock/ 3/15/17 Cypherpunk tears are shed for Bitcoin https://keepingstock.net/cypherpunk-tears-are-shed-for-bitcoin-86e32ea61757 3/15/17 Bitcoiners: make no mistake! Even though it is very likely that BTU is now going the same way as XT and Classiccoin the re-centralization attempts will not stop. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5zgt72/bitcoiners_make_no_mistake_even_though_it_is_very/ 3/15/17 A Fork in the Road https://vinnylingham.com/a-fork-in-the-road-70288fd3c046 3/16/17 Bitcoin's Scaling Debate is Devolving Into an All-Out Twitter War http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-scaling-debate-devolving-twitter-war/ 3/17/17 Bitcoin Exchanges Unveil Hard Fork Contingency Plan http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-exchanges-unveil-emergency-hard-fork-contingency-plan/ 3/17/17 Adam, Greg, Core Devs and big blockers.. Now is the time for compromise. [maaku7] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5zxjza/adam_greg_core_devs_and_big_blockers_now_is_the/df275yk/ Coinbase responds to industry letter. 3/18/17 https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/606fot/coinbase_responds_to_industry_letter/?sort=controversial Why Coinbase didn't sign the industry letter 3/18/17 https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6060i2/why_coinbase_didnt_sign_the_industry_letter 3/18/17 How can we solve replay attacks in the event of a hard fork https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6065id/how_can_we_solve_replay_attacks_in_the_event_of_a 3/19/17 BIP for the mandatory activation of segwit by shaolinfry https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/60a8ya/bip_for_the_mandatory_activation_of_segwit_by Jihan Wu's latest Weibo post looks like an offer to negotiate 3/20/17 https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/60gem4/jihan_wus_latest_weibo_post_looks_like_an_offe 3/20/17 What happens to my bitcoins in TREZOR after a hard fork? https://blog.trezor.io/contingency-plan-bitcoin-hard-fork-b6ce85cde028 3/20/17 My name is Meni Rosenfeld and I support Bitcoin Core. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/60jf4p/my_name_is_meni_rosenfeld_and_i_support_bitcoin 3/20/17 What would happen for Ledger hardware wallet users in case of a Bitcoin fork https://medium.com/@Ledger/what-would-happen-for-ledger-hardware-wallet-users-in-case-of-a-bitcoin-fork-3b955a065d57 11/13/18 Bitmain No Longer Under Influence of Jihan Wu, Says Lawyer https://bitcoinist.com/bitmain-jihan-wu-no-influence/ 2/12/19 cypherdoc: "i think BU is dead. i don't say that with glee as i helped conceptualize and financially supported it. i just think they're exhausted." https://bitco.in/forum/threads/gold-collapsing-bitcoin-up.16/page-1359#post-88359 2/19/19 Mining Giant Bitmain Posts $500 Million Loss in IPO Financial Filing https://www.coindesk.com/mining-giant-bitmain-posts-500-million-loss-in-ipo-financial-filing LMK your favorites and I'll update the list! We need entries for Oct/Nov/Dec 2015. There's a blank space there, but I'm sure plenty of notable events occurred in those months. Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: Erkallys on January 31, 2016, 11:47:44 AM I proposed the term "secession" to describe Bitcoin Classic, but I have to say that "Bitcoin's Great Schism" is a lot better :D !
Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 01, 2016, 09:28:51 AM I proposed the term "secession" to describe Bitcoin Classic, but I have to say that "Bitcoin's Great Schism" is a lot better :D ! Great Schism is the best because of its connotation with Byzantine generals and holy doctrinal conflict that normal people DGAF about but are nonetheless subjected to by the priest caste (resplendent in their shiny robes, funny hats, odd lifestyles, strange rituals, etc.) C'mon you guys....I need more links to flesh out this skeleton of an OP! :P What were your favorite skirmishes thus far? Aren't you sick of having to Search for "old" links, as we endlessly rehash the 20MB/8MB/2MB debate? And think of the benefit to future internet anthropologists! This thread should be their Rosetta Stone. 8) Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: Foxpup on February 01, 2016, 10:09:57 AM Well, we can't very well talk about Byzantine generals without talking about military action.
8/17/15 Not Bitcoin XT https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1154520.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1154520.0) I thought that was quite cute. Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 01, 2016, 10:16:26 AM Well, we can't very well talk about Byzantine generals without talking about military action. 8/17/15 Not Bitcoin XT https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1154520.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1154520.0) I thought that was quite cute. Good pick! All warfare is based on deception... The butthurt NotXT caused on the rump forums was epic. The fact the Xturds didn't anticipate and plan for spoofed version signals despite being warned only shows they are clueless amateurs. Classic. Total classic! Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 04, 2016, 05:35:36 PM Updates added to OP:
6/10/15 Mike Hearn: In about 1-2 weeks, Bitcoin XT will include support for 20mb blocks https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1086736.0 6/13/15 Hearn's Worst Case Scenario: Checkpoints in XT to "ignore the longest chain" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1089283.0 7/8/15 "Bitcoin" XT Status Update https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1115016.0 8/18/15 Bitcoin XT has code which downloads your IP address to facilitate blacklisting https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1156489.0 1/2/16 bitcoin "unlimited" seeks review https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1312371.0 Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: DannyHamilton on February 04, 2016, 05:48:59 PM What about jgarzik's attempt to force a hard fork to a 7.168 MB blocksize back on 2010-10-03?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.0 And Satoshi's great response that increasing the block size in the future will just require him to choose an activation block in the future and code the larger size to trigger on that block into all the versions between when the decision is made and when that block occurs: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.msg15366#msg15366 Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 05, 2016, 02:43:56 AM What about jgarzik's attempt to force a hard fork to a 7.168 MB blocksize back on 2010-10-03? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.0 And Satoshi's great response that increasing the block size in the future will just require him to choose an activation block in the future and code the larger size to trigger on that block into all the versions between when the decision is made and when that block occurs: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.msg15366#msg15366 Excellent choice. The deep background is required for context. Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: brg444 on February 05, 2016, 04:22:44 AM Great, great idea.
For my part I would like to beef up the rap sheet against one Gavin Andresen and shine light on the trail of evidence which supports his indictment as Bitcoin traitor and persona non grata. Here is Gavin's history of attacks on Bitcoin using the block size as a proxy and purported motivations: 03/12/2013 The "Accidental" fork Recently Bitcoin came close to unmitigated disaster, in the following way:Gavin diplomatically suggested that miners increase their block size, from the previous magic number of "250k" to something they themselves pick.This approach is flawed: the solution to the problem of having a magic number in the code is not passing the responsibility of choosing it to a larger group. It may work politically, in the sense that where large, vague groups are responsible for a bad move nobody will ever be hung. It does not work practically. This point does not begin to get sufficient emphasis: stop thinking politically, stick to thinking practically. The political importance, usefulness or competence of a dev is nil. This is not your job, and more importantly this is one of the things you suck at the most. A casual skim through the -dev sessions is ample proof for this, more ridiculous dickwad posturing and knowshitism has never before been seen (outside of the mailing lists of some meanwhile failed open source projects). Snap out of it. Stick to writing code. Note the foresight of MPOE-PR with regards to the events that came to unfold in the following years. 01/06/2015 The first magic numbers Quote My goal is to prove that it is safe to raise the maximum block size from 1MB to at least 20MB, with the existing Bitcoin Core code (no fancy invertible bloom filters, no hyper-optimized-for-the Bitcoin-elliptic-curve verification code). ... My desktop machine (a quad-core, 16GB-memory, "Late 2012" iMac) can easily keep up with a 20-MB-per-block blockchain, and could even keep up with a 200-MB-per-block chain if run with bigger -maxsigcachesize and -dbcache settings. http://gavintech.blogspot.ca/2015/01/looking-before-scaling-up-leap.html 01/20/2015 I'm confident that there are no technical barriers to scaling up Quote Executive summary: if we increased the maximum block size to 20 megabytes tomorrow, and every single miner decided to start creating 20MB blocks and there was a sudden increase in the number of transactions on the network to fill up those blocks.... http://gavintech.blogspot.ca/2015/01/twenty-megabytes-testing-results.html... the 0.10.0 version of the reference implementation would run just fine. Q3 2015 Why eight? Because it's a Chinese homonym for "prosper" or "wealth" Quote It crops up in the Chinese Bitcoin community all the time. So this choice obviously wasn't based on any kind of scientific analysis. Having Bitcoin protocol constants be decided by rhymes would obviously have been an embarrassment, but nonetheless, we compromised and did it. - Mike Hearn https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mike_hearn&next=10921219 More on the way... Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: Bit_Happy on February 05, 2016, 05:02:07 AM ... And Satoshi's great response that increasing the block size in the future will just require him to choose an activation block in the future and code the larger size to trigger on that block into all the versions between when the decision is made and when that block occurs: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.msg15366#msg15366 Wow, it can still be that simple (done by the current devs), so why does everyone need to keep fighting over an endless "forking mess"? Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: ebliever on February 05, 2016, 05:18:29 AM Early in my tenure here the topic of whether there would be one cryptocurrency or many successful ones came up. I pointed out that money has a variety of functions and uses, and that ideal money for each different application would involve different characteristics or priorities. You can't "have it all" with just one cryptocurrency. For example, a highly secure, highly valued "digital gold" crypto would have different ideal characteristics than a highly convenient, fast-transacting, low or zero fee crypto used for everyday purchases.
What I didn't anticipate is that this need for multiple optimized cryptocurrencies for every financial niche would become part of a great conflict within bitcoin itself. It didn't occur to me that bitcoin, with its lack of central authority, would itself become a battleground between people with different financial visions and priorities. For the most part, all of these competing visions that are part of the bitcoin conflict reflect valid financial needs. There should be a successful cryptocurrency for each of them. But bitcoin, if it is to remain successful, can be only one of these. Somehow we need to arrive at a concensus as to what bitcoin is and is not. Once we have that, you'll be surprised how quickly we can figure out the path to promoting that vision and fixing the current limitations in the bitcoin protocol. But as long as we don't have that agreement, conflict will continue because the underlying visions are contradictory to one another. In the short run, someone is going to have to win and someone is going to have to lose regarding the question of what bitcoin shall be. Hopefully the losers can rally to a new flag and make other crypto(s) successful for the niches they have in mind. In the long run, we all win by building all the pieces of a full-fledged cryptocurrency financial ecosystem, with many different altcoins thriving along with (not in conflict with) bitcoin. My 2 satoshis, ebliever Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: Kakmakr on February 05, 2016, 05:33:09 AM Whilst we fight over the technical details, the competitors are gaining ground on us with their technologies. We need to resolve this matter, and move forward with whatever solution benefit the majority. This is a nice thread, but it shows a deeper problem.
We need a faster mechanism to resolve smaller issues, or we will lose the competitive advantage. A decentralized permissioned blockchain, will have a defined development structure and they will make decisions quickly. Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 05, 2016, 07:44:01 AM Whilst we fight over the technical details, the competitors are gaining ground on us with their technologies. We need to resolve this matter, and move forward with whatever solution benefit the majority. This is a nice thread, but it shows a deeper problem. We need a faster mechanism to resolve smaller issues, or we will lose the competitive advantage. A decentralized permissioned blockchain, will have a defined development structure and they will make decisions quickly. This thread is for compiling a list of references that helps people interested in Bitcoin's Great Schism. Please cite a thread that exemplifies what you're talking about. Editorializing is off-topic. Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: unamis76 on February 05, 2016, 11:28:47 AM Interesting thread. We might be able to achieve a kind of "conductive wire" of ideas with this chronological ordering of threads about block size and related issues. It will be interesting when this is all over to go back and see how people's minds and ideas developed throughout this "Great Schism", as OP calls it :) I'd like to contribute: this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1153957.0) was one of my favorite threads.
Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 05, 2016, 06:19:39 PM [blah blah blah] [blah blah blah] [blah blah blah] This thread is for compiling a list of references that helps people interested in the history of Bitcoin's Great Schism. Editorializing is off-topic. Please cite a thread that exemplifies what you're talking about OR DO NOT POST. Thank you, The Managment Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 05, 2016, 06:21:21 PM Interesting thread. We might be able to achieve a kind of "conductive wire" of ideas with this chronological ordering of threads about block size and related issues. It will be interesting when this is all over to go back and see how people's minds and ideas developed throughout this "Great Schism", as OP calls it :) I'd like to contribute: this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1153957.0) was one of my favorite threads. 8/15/15 Big block support observer https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1153957.0 Added to OP. TYVM! :) Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 05, 2016, 06:38:18 PM Great, great idea. For my part I would like to beef up the rap sheet against one Gavin Andresen and shine light on the trail of evidence which supports his indictment as Bitcoin traitor and persona non grata. Here is Gavin's history of attacks on Bitcoin using the block size as a proxy and purported motivations: [famously Bad Ideas] More on the way... Right, we do need more entries in the 'WTF were they thinking' category. Keep'em coming! Let's use the original title (if available) and OP format. Added to OP: 3/11/13 In re Bitcoin Devs are idiots https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152027 1/6/15 Looking before the Scaling Up Leap http://gavintech.blogspot.ca/2015/01/looking-before-scaling-up-leap.html 1/12/15 Twenty Megabytes testing results http://gavintech.blogspot.ca/2015/01/twenty-megabytes-testing-results.html 1/18/16 Hearn: 8MB "obviously wasn't based on any kind of scientific analysis" https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mike_hearn&next=10921219 Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: watashi-kokoto on February 05, 2016, 07:22:56 PM 26.2-28.2 Satoshi Roundtable – Private Blockchain Retreat
Wondering if the participant's visions become aligned with the establishment' vision during the event. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQCfDOglW76hcXF8ivdFWn6mr-RoTPp4e8JGUCulzdHP84x-iQf_g Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 07, 2016, 04:43:21 AM 9/30/10
Re: Prioritized transactions, and tx fees https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1314.msg14750#msg14750 That hard limit is going to have to be bumped up if/when Bitcoin takes off. 463 transactions per minute wouldn't be anywhere near viable for a worldwide online currency. We, at least, need to be able to handle the number of average transactions per minute that paypal claims they currently average. +1 Scaling to high transaction rate has always been my main concern about viability of bitcoin. I'm much more concerned about scalability than government shutdown, for example. Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 07, 2016, 02:26:12 PM Added to OP:
2/5/16 [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Increase block size limit to 2 megabytes http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-February/012358.html 'In which Gavin's preposterous BIP is promptly savaged by all the qualified experts, and *comedy intensifies*.' Thanks to my highly-placed source for this juicy bit of ecclesiastical differences and theological disputes. 8) Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: alani123 on February 07, 2016, 02:51:27 PM This is how human nature works sadly. I've gotten to accept that even with bitcoin, certain people don't really care about the potential risks as long as their beliefs are the ones followed. If this block size crisis has offered us anything then that is the testing of voting mechanisms. We saw how node numbers can be manipulated, how blocks can be filled with trash clogging the mempool and how easy it was to deploy a sybil attack against consider.it.
One robust voting system was the one miners use to indicate their block size proposal preference but then again this is only voicing their opinion, along with activation threshold schemes. In my opinion, at this time, only the most vocal supporters of certain ideas are voicing their opinions with bitcoin. This has resulted to many ad hominems and insults towards the people that with their own skills have been helping maintain and develope bitcoin's code. This whole affair reminds me of IRL politics, where many people fall for moralistic fallacies instead of discussing possible courses of action, ideas and proposals. With Bitcoin, it'd be ideal if more of it's users could understand the technology well enough or better yet know how to understand code themselves. Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: hdbuck on February 07, 2016, 02:53:18 PM fork teh fork: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/43xcdp/i_created_a_new_version_of_bitcoin_classic_now/czlsjaj
Classic being forked to another version with 95% threshold. Ssssplitter?! ;D Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 07, 2016, 06:18:00 PM fork teh fork: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/43xcdp/i_created_a_new_version_of_bitcoin_classic_now/czlsjaj Classic being forked to another version with 95% threshold. Ssssplitter?! ;D Frap.doc - "Wait, I thought *WE* were the Classic Peoples Front?!?" Gavin - "No, he's over there!" :D :D :D +OP 8/27/15 BIP101 implementation flaws http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/08/bip101-implementation-flaws.html 9/14/15 Supermajority and BIP101 activation, part 2 http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/09/supermajority-and-bip101-activation.html 1/29/16 Hard Fork Risks and Why 95% Should be the Standard. http://bitledger.info/hard-fork-risks-and-why-95-should-be-the-standard/ Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 11, 2016, 07:41:48 PM OP+
6/22/15 Bitcoin’s Ironic Crisis https://medium.com/@bramcohen/bitcoin-s-ironic-crisis-32226a85e39f 8/20/15 Nuclear option of forking the codebase should only be used as a last resort https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3hp190/charlie_lee_nuclear_option_of_forking_the/ 9/9/15 Measuring Decentralization http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/measuring-decentralization/ 9/14/15 Adam Back on the Overlooked Importance of Full Nodes in Bitcoin http://coinjournal.net/adam-back-on-the-overlooked-importance-of-full-nodes-in-bitcoin/ 1/18/16 KEEP CALM AND BITCOIN ON https://medium.com/@BitFuryGroup/keep-calm-and-bitcoin-on-4f29d581276 1/28/16 The Governance of Anarchists https://medium.com/@PanteraCapital/the-governance-of-anarchists-blockchain-letter-january-2016-798842f468de 2/8/16 PSA: Clearing up some misconceptions about full nodes https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/44rx5k/psa_clearing_up_some_misconceptions_about_full/ 2/10/16 A Call for Consensus https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/a-call-for-consensus-d96d5560d8d6 Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: tommygunyeah on February 11, 2016, 07:56:26 PM I see many people making fun of it, but it is actually the first time I see something concrete being made about those discussions.
Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 12, 2016, 07:12:11 PM I see many people making fun of it, but it is actually the first time I see something concrete being made about those discussions. We're writing the history of the future. It's important to get the facts in order, so they cannot be (retroactively) distorted by social malleability attacks. We might be able to achieve a kind of "conductive wire" of ideas with this chronological ordering of threads about block size and related issues. It will be interesting when this is all over to go back and see how people's minds and ideas developed throughout this "Great Schism" Added to OP: 5/5/15 The capacity cliff https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-capacity-cliff-586d1bf7715e 5/7/15 Crash landing https://medium.com/@octskyward/crash-landing-f5cc19908e32 8/15/15 Why is Bitcoin forking? https://medium.com/faith-and-future/why-is-bitcoin-forking-d647312d22c1 8/19/15 What happens when the managers and investors ignore the engineers and scientists https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/634131738063581184 8/27/15 An XT FAQ https://medium.com/@octskyward/an-xt-faq-38e78aa32ff0 1/14/16 The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7 2/11/16 Hard Fork Conspiracy Treacherous http://www.riddellwilliams.com/blog/articles/post/hard-fork-conspiracy-treacherous Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 13, 2016, 12:46:56 AM OP++
2/12/16 Double Billing is not ‘Healthy Competition’ https://medium.com/@bramcohen/double-billing-is-not-healthy-competition-b698c345b11e Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 14, 2016, 12:37:02 AM Thanks again to my well-placed source (let's call him Deep Block) for this astonishing revelation:
2/11/16 Ed Felten: What does the White House think of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin? https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-White-House-think-of-cryptocurrencies-such-as-bitcoin Quote I am also watching with interest the debate within the Bitcoin community about the block size limit. (To be clear, the government is paying attention to that debate but are not participating in it.) :-\ ::) "Our country is a peace loving democracy." 'Of course it is...' (http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/736889vlcsnap2012061215h04m51s54.png) Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 14, 2016, 06:28:53 AM ++
1/10/15 The Hard Fork Missile Crisis http://qntra.net/2015/01/the-hard-fork-missile-crisis 1/12/15 Let's address some of the more common pseudo-arguments raised by the very stupid people that like the Gavin scamcoin proposal http://trilema.com/2015/lets-address-some-of-the-more-common-pseudo-arguments-raised-by-the-very-stupid-people-that-like-the-gavin-scamcoin-proposal/ 8/18/15 MeniRosenfeld comments on "It's time for a break: About the recent mess & temporary new rules" https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3h9cq4/its_time_for_a_break_about_the_recent_mess/cu6udfe 2/16/16 I disapprove of Bitcoin splitting, but I’ll defend to the death its right to do it http://fieryspinningsword.com/2016/02/13/i-dont-want-bitcoin-to-split-but-ill-defend-to-death-its-right-to-do-it/ Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 20, 2016, 07:49:58 PM +OP
1/23/16 Lesson learned from the Classic coup attempt or why Core needs to prepare a GPU only PoW https://medium.com/@vcorem/lesson-learned-from-the-classic-coup-attempt-or-why-core-needs-to-prepare-a-gpu-only-pow-6a9afe18e4b0 2/9/16 Why My Faith in Bitcoin has Been Restored http://bravetheworld.com/2016/02/09/faith-bitcoin-restored/ 2/20/16 Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-consensus-266d475a61ff Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: hdbuck on February 20, 2016, 10:34:39 PM https://i.imgur.com/uMkF99q.jpg
"bitcoin is not a democracy, change must have near universal agreement" "a democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch" "we already ahve political currencies: USD, EUR, CNY" https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/7b/b2/ef/7bb2efbc093807a55100e32ae2815985.jpg ;D ;D Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: danielW on February 21, 2016, 12:54:06 AM I think something about keccak might be worth listing
Here is Lukes pull request https://github.com/bitcoinclassic/bitcoinclassic/pull/6 It might confuse people in the future though. They wont understand the significance and will be confused as to why its a pull on classic not core. The message written by Mircea Popescu gives some context and is kinda fun. http://deedbot.org/bundle-393913.txt A post by Greg Maxwell explaining how changing mining algorithm was always considered the defence against 51% attack which is what they consider classic would also be usefull but I cant find it. Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 21, 2016, 01:02:58 AM I think something about keccak might be worth listing Here is Lukes pull request https://github.com/bitcoinclassic/bitcoinclassic/pull/6 It might confuse people in the future though. They wont understand the significance and will be confused as to why its a pull on classic not core. The message written by Mircea Popescu gives some context and is kinda fun. http://deedbot.org/bundle-393913.txt A post by Greg Maxwell explaining how changing mining algorithm was always considered the defence against 51% attack which is what they consider classic would also be usefull but I cant find it. That's all great fun, but those individual pieces would be puzzling to an outsider jumping in. I think Corem's "GPU PoW needed" post covers most of the concepts. Is there a canonical Finney or Satoshi quote on changing PoW in the event of a 51% attack? IIRC the idea was part of the design from the start. Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 25, 2016, 01:00:48 AM OP+
1/1/16 Time for Bitcoin Users to Reclaim Their Voice http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/01/03/time-for-bitcoin-user-voice/ 1/2/16 Bitcoin’s Elegant Upgrade Mechanism: Miner Voting https://medium.com/@barmstrong/bitcoin-s-elegant-upgrade-mechanism-miner-voting-66faa35d27af 2/22/16 Peter Todd Disputes Claim That 75% Majority Hard Forks are Safe http://coinjournal.net/peter-todd-disputes-claim-that-75-majority-hard-forks-are-safe/ 2/22/16 Segregated Witness and Hardware Wallets https://medium.com/@Ledger/segregated-witness-and-hardware-wallets-cc88ba532fb3 2/22/16 Lesser known reasons to keep blocks small, in the words of Bitcoin Core developers https://medium.com/@elliotolds/lesser-known-reasons-to-keep-blocks-small-in-the-words-of-bitcoin-core-developers-44861968185e Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 26, 2016, 07:43:03 PM op+
2/18/13 How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=144895.0 1/14/16 Why Bitcoin's Decentralization Matters http://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2016/01/14/decentralization/ 2/22/16 Coinbase CEO Rejects Proposal for Bitcoin Hard Fork in 2017 http://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-ceo-rejects-bitcoin-hard-fork/ 2/23/16 Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus: Wladimir Says ‘I’m All For It’ http://coinjournal.net/bitcoin-roundtable-consensus-wladimir-says-im/ We need some entries for Oct/Nov/Dec 2015! Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: cjmoles on February 26, 2016, 11:35:05 PM What about this article? I think it deserves a mention here also because it points out some of the concerns of those not directly involved in its development but who might hold an interest in the scalability. I found it pretty interesting and germane to this discussion.
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/mit-media-lab-director-joi-ito-speaks-up-on-bitcoin-technical-development-environment-cm585158 Borrowed from this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1377654.0 Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 27, 2016, 01:05:27 AM What about this article? I think it deserves a mention here also because it points out some of the concerns of those not directly involved in its development but who might hold an interest in the scalability. I found it pretty interesting and germane to this discussion. http://www.nasdaq.com/article/mit-media-lab-director-joi-ito-speaks-up-on-bitcoin-technical-development-environment-cm585158 Borrowed from this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1377654.0 That's a good overview, thanks! Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on March 16, 2016, 04:51:32 AM OP++
1/3/13 The MAX_BLOCK_SIZE fork https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140233.0 2/26/16 MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito Speaks Up on Bitcoin Technical Development Environment http://www.nasdaq.com/article/mit-media-lab-director-joi-ito-speaks-up-on-bitcoin-technical-development-environment-cm585158 3/14/16 A date with Sybil https://medium.com/@laurentmt/a-date-with-sybil-bdb33bd91ac3 3/15/16 BTCC's Samson Mow on Block Size: The Bitcoin Community Must See Through Manipulation, Keep Calm and Write Code https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/btcc-s-sampson-mow-on-block-size-the-bitcoin-community-must-see-through-manipulation-keep-calm-and-write-code-1458061357 Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on March 25, 2016, 03:29:34 AM 12/16/15
[bitcoin-dev] Block size: It's economics & user preparation & moral hazard https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/011974.html 3/21/16 Contentious Blocksize Wars https://medium.com/@slush/contentious-blocksize-wars-6fd7c07f9d90 3/22/16 A Closer Look at Reddit Vote Manipulation About Bitcoin https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/a-closer-look-at-reddit-vote-manipulation-about-bitcoin-1458682699 Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on April 03, 2016, 01:28:00 PM +
2/25/16 Blocksonly mode BW savings, the limits of efficient block xfer, and better relay https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1377345.0 3/31/16 BTCC Funding, Development Report, and Hard-Forks https://petertodd.org/2016/btcc-funding 4/2/16 Clearing the FUD around Segwit http://www.achow101.com/2016/04/Segwit-FUD-Clearup Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on April 23, 2016, 02:48:47 AM +
6/19/14 Bitcoin and Voting Power http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/19/bitcoin-and-voting-power/ 4/7/16 Bitcoin Hard Forks May Become Safer With User Voting https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-hard-forks-may-become-safer-with-user-voting-1460040031 4/12/16 Peter Todd Worried About Those Willing to ‘Fork Bitcoin at All Costs’ https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/peter-todd-worried-about-those-willing-to-fork-bitcoin-at-all-costs-1460475488 4/15/16 Bitcoin Core 0.12.1 Released, Major Step Forward for Scalability https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-core-released-major-step-forward-for-scalability-1460762378 4/18/16 Supporters of 2 MB Bitcoin Blocks Unable to Convince Miners to Hard Fork in Beijing Meeting https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/supporters-of-mb-bitcoin-blocks-unable-to-convince-miners-to-hard-fork-in-beijing-meeting-1461004264 Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on May 01, 2016, 05:27:23 AM ++
1/27/16 Wondering out loud: Which should Chinese miners support - Core, Classic or another? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1343716.0 1/29/16 A trip to the moon requires a rocket with multiple stages or otherwise the rocket equation will eat your lunch... packing everyone in clown-car style into a trebuchet and hoping for success is right out. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/438hx0/a_trip_to_the_moon_requires_a_rocket_with/ 4/29/16 Roger Ver tries to intentionally spend unconfirmed bitcoins from a zero fee transaction, which fails, and then blames failure on technology. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4h3agw/roger_ver_tries_to_intentionally_spend/ Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on May 17, 2016, 05:45:56 AM 8/19/15
Bitcoin Battered After "Governance Coup" http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-19/bitcoin-battered-after-governance-coup 5/2/16 FYI, @gavinandresen's commit access just got removed - Core team members are concerned that he may have been hacked. https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/727078284345917441 5/6/16 Dazed and confused, but trying to continue https://laanwj.github.io/2016/05/06/hostility-scams-and-moving-forward.html 5/11/16 Gavin Andresen is Not Giving Up on Bitcoin Classic http://coinjournal.net/gavin-andresen-not-giving-bitcoin-classic/ 5/15/16 An Anatomy of Bitcoin's Great Scaling Debate http://www.coindesk.com/anatomy-bitcoin-scaling-debate/ Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on May 17, 2016, 08:28:00 AM 5/16/16
Almost half of the Classic nodes just disappeared https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4jo15f/almost_half_of_the_classic_nodes_just_disappeared/ Professional Libertarian Justus Ranvier :'( Professional Libertarian Olivier Jannsens :'( Professional Libertarian Roger Ver :'( Brian Armstrong :'( Gavin Andresen :'( Toomim Bros :'( Marshmallow Long :'( Frap.doc :'( Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: pereira4 on May 17, 2016, 02:02:44 PM Well I think if Classic wasn't already done for, this incident of seeing half of the nodes going away in a second it's like the nail in the coffin, and this coffin cointained a dead horse which was kicked to death.
The funny part is, on /btc/ they are already coming up with conspiracy theories like "all those nodes were bought by blockstream to discredit classic".. crazy!! Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on June 02, 2016, 04:55:12 PM ++
5/29/15 Gavin Threatens to Quit Bitcoin Development and Join Hearn's Fork http://qntra.net/2015/05/gavin-threatens-to-quit-bitcoin-development-and-join-hearns-fork/ 5/30/15 [Bitcoin-development] soft-fork block size increase (extension blocks) Re: Proposed alternatives to the 20MB stepfunction https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-May/008356.html 6/2/15 What Have The Core Bitcoin Devs Ever Done For Us? https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3bx44a/what_have_the_core_bitcoin_devs_ever_done_for_us 12/7/15 [bitcoin-dev] Capacity increases for the Bitcoin system. https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/011865.html 1/16/16 Whiny Ragequitting https://medium.com/@bramcohen/whiny-ragequitting-cab164b1e88 1/26/16 How to Use Open Source and Shut the Fuck Up At the Same Time https://hueniverse.com/2016/01/26/how-to-use-open-source-and-shut-the-fuck-up-at-the-same-time/ 3/4/16 What Happened At The Satoshi Roundtable https://medium.com/the-coinbase-blog/what-happened-at-the-satoshi-roundtable-6c11a10d8cdf 5/20/16 Mike Hearn: Bitcoin's "Young, Unripened Democracy" Suffers Under Authoritarian Developers https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/mike-hearn-bitcoin-democracy/ 5/23/16 Antpool Will Not Run SegWit Without Bitcoin Block Size Increase Hard Fork https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/antpool-will-not-run-segwit-without-block-size-increase-hard-fork-1464028753 5/24/16 Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency https://medium.com/the-coinbase-blog/ethereum-is-the-forefront-of-digital-currency-5300298f6c75 5/25/16 Bitcoin Protocol Role Models http://gavinandresen.ninja/bitcoin-protocol-role-models 6/1/16 Original vision of Bitcoin http://blog.oleganza.com/post/145248960618/original-vision-of-bitcoin Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on June 05, 2016, 06:51:30 AM ++
5/17/13 New video: Why the blocksize limit keeps Bitcoin free and decentralized https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=208200.msg2180232 Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on June 16, 2016, 10:16:34 PM 6/23/15
How the Bitcoin experiment might fail https://medium.com/@sdaftuar/how-the-bitcoin-experiment-might-fail-7f6c24f99ecf 1/14/16 A Bitcoin Believer’s Crisis of Faith http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/business/dealbook/the-bitcoin-believer-who-gave-up.html 6/14/16 Rick Falkvinge on Segwit: I think it's a dead-end. It's over-engineering. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4nzona/rick_falkvinge_on_segwit_i_think_its_a_deadend/ 6/14/16 The Big-Blocker Fallacy https://medium.com/@rextar4444/the-big-blocker-fallacy-dd5c67ad6c12 Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on November 29, 2016, 08:02:45 AM 11/21/16
The artificial block size limit https://medium.com/@bergealex4/the-artificial-block-size-limit-1b69aa5d9d4 Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on December 24, 2016, 02:36:28 AM This fascinating thread demonstrates community divisions which intensified during the Blocksize Wars.
4/19/13 Roger Ver and Jon Matonis pushed aside now that Bitcoin is becoming mainstream https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=181168.0 Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on December 30, 2016, 09:45:35 PM 8/11/15
I ran Bitcoin Core for >3 years, and I turned it off today https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1150481.0 7/25/14 Share your ideas on what to replace the 1 MB block size limit with https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=709970.0 Noteworthy for this if nothing else. :o Quote Edit: With respect to CryptoNote and Monero, I do see merit in the argument that the fee penalty alone may not be enough to constrain blocksize; however when combined with the difficulty increase requirement the picture changes. As for the specifics of the Monero blockchain there are also other factors including dust from mining pools that led to the early bloating, and we must also keep in mind the CryptoNote and Monero also have built in privacy which adds to the blocksize by its very nature. Yes, its complicated— but it's also concerning. The only altcoins that I'm aware of which have diverged from the current Bitcoin behavior in this front, and did so with the benefits of all the discussions we've had before being available to them, have been suffering from crippling bloat.Glancing at block explorers for Monero and ByteCoin (https://minergate.com/blockchain/bcn/blocks)... I'm not seeing crippling bloat right now. I see lots of very-few-transactions blocks. Glancing at recent release notes for ByteCoin (https://forum.cryptonote.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=257), it looks like transactions were not being prioritized by fee, which is a fundamental to getting a working fee market. Have Monero and ByteCoin fixed the bloat problem, or did the transaction spammers just get bored and go away? Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on January 25, 2017, 06:51:37 AM 4/4/16
Coinbase CEO: Core Team is a "Systemic Threat" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1387667 4/4/16 Boycott Coinbase to stop the attack against Bitcoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1387457.0 Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 25, 2017, 07:28:09 AM Adding:
5/11/15 Bitcoin faces a crossroads, needs an effective decision-making process https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/05/11/bitcoin-faces-a-crossroads-needs-an-effective-decision-making-process/ 7/28/15 Analyzing the 2013 Bitcoin fork: centralized decision-making saved the day http://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/07/28/analyzing-the-2013-bitcoin-fork-centralized-decision-making-saved-the-day/ 8/19/15 Adam Back Says the Bitcoin Fork Is a Coup http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/the-bitcoin-for-is-a-coup 8/8/16 Segregated Witness and aligning economic incentives with resource costs https://segwit.org/segregated-witness-and-aligning-economic-incentives-with-resource-costs-7d987b135c00 1/19/17 Why Segregated Witness will make 2017 Bitcoin’s best year yet https://segwit.org/why-segragated-witness-will-make-2017-bitcoins-best-year-yet-527e391c93cb 1/21/17 The SegWit Debate https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5pcar2/the_segwit_debate/ 1/27/17 How Bitcoin Unlimited Users May End Up on Different Blockchains https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/how-bitcoin-unlimited-users-may-end-different-blockchains/ 2/1/17 Why Bitcoin Unlimited’s “Emergent Consensus” Is a Gamble https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/why-bitcoin-unlimiteds-emergent-consensus-gamble/ 2/5/17 Happy Bitcoin Coder https://medium.com/@nicolasdorier/happy-bitcoin-coder-2def905d5929 2/9/17 Money, blockchains, and social scalability https://unenumerated.blogspot.jp/2017/02/money-blockchains-and-social-scalability.html 2/10/17 Scaling Bitcoin: Reflections from the DCG Portfolio https://medium.com/@DCGco/scaling-bitcoin-reflections-from-the-dcg-portfolio-35b9a065b2a4 2/11/17 The DCG is not Bitcoin. You are Bitcoin https://hackernoon.com/the-dcg-is-not-bitcoin-you-are-bitcoin-c57e2d2ce846 2/12/17 Complete Review on SegWit vs. Bitcoin Unlimited: Arguments and Clarity https://cointelegraph.com/news/complete-review-on-segwit-vs-bitcoin-unlimited-arguments-and-clarity 1/21/17 The SegWit Debate https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5pcar2/the_segwit_debate/ 1/27/17 How Bitcoin Unlimited Users May End Up on Different Blockchains https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/how-bitcoin-unlimited-users-may-end-different-blockchains/ 1/29/17 bitcoin.com loses 13.2BTC trying to fork the network: Untested and buggy BU creates an oversized block, Many BU node banned, the HF fails https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5qwtr2/bitcoincom_loses_132btc_trying_to_fork_the/ 1/30/17 LOL! Miners running latest BU need to set their max block size lower than Core to avoid mining invalid blocks https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5qxrnt/lol_miners_running_latest_bu_need_to_set_their/ 1/31/17 So who the hell is still supporting BU? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1771911.0 1/31/17 Statement regarding excessive block by Bitcoin Unlimited software 29 Jan 2017 https://bitco.in/forum/threads/buir-2017-01-29-statement-regarding-excessive-block-by-bitcoin-unlimited-software-29-jan-2017.1790/ 2/3/17 Bitcoin Market Needs Big Blocks, Says Founder of BTC.TOP Mining Pool https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-market-needs-big-blocks-says-founder-btc-top-mining-pool/ 2/3/17 Segregated Witness (SW) vs Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5rs55l/segregated_witness_sw_vs_bitcoin_unlimited_bu/ 2/4/17 Gavin Andresen supporting an attack on the minority chain in case BU fork with majority hashpower https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5s2c2z/gavin_andresen_supporting_an_attack_on_the/ 2/10/17 Scaling Bitcoin: Reflections from the DCG Portfolio https://medium.com/@DCGco/scaling-bitcoin-reflections-from-the-dcg-portfolio-35b9a065b2a4 2/11/17 The DCG is not Bitcoin. You are Bitcoin https://hackernoon.com/the-dcg-is-not-bitcoin-you-are-bitcoin-c57e2d2ce846 2/12/17 Complete Review on SegWit vs. Bitcoin Unlimited: Arguments and Clarity https://cointelegraph.com/news/complete-review-on-segwit-vs-bitcoin-unlimited-arguments-and-clarity 2/22/17 BTCC’s Bobby Lee: Why Chinese Bitcoin Miners Are Not Happy With SegWit https://cointelegraph.com/news/btccs-bobby-lee-why-chinese-bitcoin-miners-are-not-happy-with-segwit 2/23/17 Understanding the risk of BU (bitcoin unlimited) https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5vo5wi/understanding_the_risk_of_bu_bitcoin_unlimited/ Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on March 03, 2017, 07:25:39 PM +
3/1/17 Bitcoin: no need to keep talking http://bravetheworld.com/2017/03/01/bitcoin-talking/ 3/1/17 The Bitcoin Filibuster https://medium.com/@beautyon_/the-bitcoin-filibuster-c12231f6feb3 3/2/17 Why I'm resigning as a 'moderator' of /r/btc https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5x3x7r/why_im_resigning_as_a_moderator_of_rbtc/ 3/3/17 The Core Development Scalability Roadmap https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5xa5fa/the_core_development_scalability_roadmap/ The 2017 season of All My Bitcoins is really heating up! Can't wait for the conclusion of the Shitcoin Jesus character arc and acceleration of the ChinaCoin subplot. 8) Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on March 04, 2017, 06:59:09 PM +
2/25/17 Moving towards user activated soft fork activation https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1805060.0 3/4/17 The Origins of the Blocksize Debate https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5xg7f8/the_origins_of_the_blocksize_debate/ Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on March 11, 2017, 09:26:00 PM ++
2/7/17 Capitalist View on a Bitcoin Hard Fork https://alistairmilne.com/2017/02/07/capitalist-view-on-a-bitcoin-hard-fork/ 3/6/17 Bitcoin Realism or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 1MB Blocks https://medium.com/@jimmysong/bitcoin-realism-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-1mb-blocks-c191c35e74cb 3/7/17 MIT Expo Spotlights Bitcoin Tech Concerns http://www.coindesk.com/save-the-nodes-mit-bitcoin-expo-spotlights-tech-challenges/ 3/8/17 Economic Implications of Chain Splits and Resolution https://medium.com/@alpalpalp/economic-implications-of-chain-splits-and-resolution-539c5fd0bc0c 3/8/17 Chain Splits and Resolutions https://medium.com/@alpalpalp/chain-splits-and-resolutions-d3398bddf4ab 3/9/17 How Bitcoin Unlimited ( $BTU) will be erased https://medium.com/@WhalePanda/how-bitcoin-unlimited-btu-will-be-erased-169977ecb3bb 3/10/17 Bitcoiners, get your priorities straight. https://medium.com/@thepiratewhocantbenamed/bitcoiners-get-your-priorities-straight-a2297b870095 3/10/17 On the recent bout of malleated transactions https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5yojyp/on_the_recent_bout_of_malleated_transactions/ 3/10/17 Reflections on Scaling and Bitcoin Protocol Development https://cryptoinsider.com/reflections-scaling-bitcoin-protocol-development/ Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on March 21, 2017, 01:57:34 AM 8/10/10
How do we prevent Bitcoin forks (or should we)? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=779 6/11/15 The Bitcoin Gauntlet https://medium.com/bitcoin-think/the-bitcoin-gauntlet-e9e721297aca 2/2/16 Scaling Bitcoin: The Great Block Size Debate https://blog.coinbase.com/scaling-bitcoin-the-great-block-size-debate-d2cba9021db0 5/12/16 https://i.imgur.com/jE3W4Fs.jpg (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4iy8s1/bitcoin_civil_war/) 6/28/16 Time to End the Block-Size Blockade https://fee.org/articles/time-to-end-the-block-size-blockade/ 10/23/16 A Future Led by Bitcoin Unlimited is a Centralized Future https://blog.sia.tech/a-future-led-by-bitcoin-unlimited-is-a-centralized-future-e48ab52c817a 4/20/16 Bitcoin scaling tradeoffs with Adam Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEZAlNBJjA0 2/20/17 Why Bitcoin Will Get Scaling Without Segwit or Large Blocks https://medium.com/@jimmysong/why-bitcoin-will-get-scaling-without-segwit-or-large-blocks-772799fab021 2/26/17 The Bitcoin Balance of Power Poster https://medium.com/@AudunGulbrands1/the-bitcoin-balance-of-power-poster-91271ab31b86 2/27/17 Why Bitcoin Transaction Capacity Doesn’t Really Matter https://medium.com/@jimmysong/why-bitcoin-transaction-capacity-doesnt-really-matter-fddcc0c9f021 3/9/17 Coinbase, Bitfinex Would List Bitcoin Unlimited As “Altcoin” After Soft Fork: Mow https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-bitfinex-would-list-bitcoin-unlimited-as-altcoin-after-soft-fork-mow 3/11/17 Nobody Understands Bitcoin (And That's OK) http://www.coindesk.com/nobody-understands-bitcoin-thats-ok/ 3/12/17 Bitcoin Miners Signal Revolt Amid Sluggish Blockchain https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-13/bitcoin-miners-signal-revolt-in-push-to-fix-sluggish-blockchain 3/12/17 Flag day activation of segwit [shaolinfry] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-March/013714.html 3/13/17 The Road to One Megabyte https://medium.com/@bergealex4/the-road-to-one-megabyte-b3912a9dee3e 3/13/17 How to destroy bitcoin in 8 steps: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5z4l3e/how_to_destroy_bitcoin_in_8_steps 3/13/17 Ways to enhance Post-fork withering of Core chain [/u/gavinandresen] https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5z7wzj/ways_to_enhance_postfork_withering_of_core_chain/dewynk0/ 3/14/17 Divisive ‘Bitcoin Unlimited’ Solution Crashes After Bug Discovered https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-15/divisive-bitcoin-unlimited-solution-crashes-after-bug-exploit 3/14/17 CoinDesk Explainer: The Bitcoin Unlimited Debate http://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-explainer-bitcoin-unlimited-debate/ 3/14/17 Bitcoin is. And that is enough. https://medium.com/bitcoin-think/bitcoin-is-and-that-is-enough-e3116870eed1 3/14/17 Why Bitcoin Node Statistics Aren’t Trustworthy https://medium.com/@jimmysong/why-bitcoin-node-statistics-arent-trustworthy-5882d9a9d2bf 3/15/17 Why Bitcoin Unlimited should be correctly classified as an ‘attempted robbery’ of Bitcoin, not a fork https://medium.com/@Coinosphere/why-bitcoin-unlimited-should-be-correctly-classified-as-an-attempted-robbery-of-bitcoin-not-a-9355d075763c 3/15/17 Someone Wants to Stick a Fork in Bitcoin https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-16/someone-wants-to-stick-a-fork-in-bitcoin 3/15/17 Community Reacts to Bitcoin Unlimited Bug, Calls For SegWit Activation https://cointelegraph.com/news/community-reacts-to-bitcoin-unlimited-bug-calls-for-segwit-activation 3/15/17 'Super UASF': Could a Clever Idea Break Bitcoin's Scaling Deadlock? http://www.coindesk.com/could-the-super-uasf-break-bitcoins-scaling-deadlock/ 3/15/17 Cypherpunk tears are shed for Bitcoin https://keepingstock.net/cypherpunk-tears-are-shed-for-bitcoin-86e32ea61757 3/15/17 Bitcoiners: make no mistake! Even though it is very likely that BTU is now going the same way as XT and Classiccoin the re-centralization attempts will not stop. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5zgt72/bitcoiners_make_no_mistake_even_though_it_is_very/ 3/15/17 A Fork in the Road https://vinnylingham.com/a-fork-in-the-road-70288fd3c046 3/16/17 Bitcoin's Scaling Debate is Devolving Into an All-Out Twitter War http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-scaling-debate-devolving-twitter-war/ 3/17/17 Bitcoin Exchanges Unveil Hard Fork Contingency Plan http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-exchanges-unveil-emergency-hard-fork-contingency-plan/ 3/17/17 Adam, Greg, Core Devs and big blockers.. Now is the time for compromise. [maaku7] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5zxjza/adam_greg_core_devs_and_big_blockers_now_is_the/df275yk/ Coinbase responds to industry letter. 3/18/17 https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/606fot/coinbase_responds_to_industry_letter/?sort=controversial Why Coinbase didn't sign the industry letter 3/18/17 https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6060i2/why_coinbase_didnt_sign_the_industry_letter 3/18/17 How can we solve replay attacks in the event of a hard fork https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6065id/how_can_we_solve_replay_attacks_in_the_event_of_a 3/19/17 BIP for the mandatory activation of segwit by shaolinfry https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/60a8ya/bip_for_the_mandatory_activation_of_segwit_by Jihan Wu's latest Weibo post looks like an offer to negotiate 3/20/17 https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/60gem4/jihan_wus_latest_weibo_post_looks_like_an_offe 3/20/17 What happens to my bitcoins in TREZOR after a hard fork? https://blog.trezor.io/contingency-plan-bitcoin-hard-fork-b6ce85cde028 3/20/17 My name is Meni Rosenfeld and I support Bitcoin Core. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/60jf4p/my_name_is_meni_rosenfeld_and_i_support_bitcoin 3/20/17 What would happen for Ledger hardware wallet users in case of a Bitcoin fork https://medium.com/@Ledger/what-would-happen-for-ledger-hardware-wallet-users-in-case-of-a-bitcoin-fork-3b955a065d57 Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on February 25, 2019, 07:53:05 AM 11/13/18
Bitmain No Longer Under Influence of Jihan Wu, Says Lawyer https://bitcoinist.com/bitmain-jihan-wu-no-influence/ 2/12/19 cypherdoc: "i think BU is dead. i don't say that with glee as i helped conceptualize and financially supported it. i just think they're exhausted." https://bitco.in/forum/threads/gold-collapsing-bitcoin-up.16/page-1359#post-88359 2/19/19 Mining Giant Bitmain Posts $500 Million Loss in IPO Financial Filing https://www.coindesk.com/mining-giant-bitmain-posts-500-million-loss-in-ipo-financial-filing Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: franky1 on February 26, 2019, 10:53:20 AM 2/19/19 Mining Giant Bitmain Posts $500 Million Loss in IPO Financial Filing https://www.coindesk.com/mining-giant-bitmain-posts-500-million-loss-in-ipo-financial-filing 2018 Q1 = +500 get income 2018 Q2 = +500 get income 2018 Q3 = -500 spend income still = +500 still have spar income where's the loss? anyways icebreaker long time no see.. what campaign are you planning to REKT next. seems your only loudest when you se a threat against core your about about to instigate a big REKT campaign. so who's your target this year? Title: Re: Bitcoin's Great Schism - A Compendium Post by: iCEBREAKER on June 11, 2019, 05:52:53 PM 8/28/15
Why I support BIP101 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1164464 1/9/16 Analysis and list of top big blocks shills (XT #REKT ignorers) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1318519 9/14/16 Stop fuckin' around, fork the son-of-a-bitch already. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1616856 |
