FUDbustin' - Small Blocks [Episode 36]
Bottomshelf Bitcoin16 Tammi 2019

FUDbustin' - Small Blocks [Episode 36]

Another Fudbustin' episode, this time on Small Blocks. I not only talk about the benefits of small blocks over large, but also why we have a block size limit at all.

Satoshi and Small Blocks History of Consensus Forks from Bitmex Research
Complete Satoshi from Nakamoto Institute
Speculation on Why Satoshi created the limit
Garzik's Oct 3 Patch
Other episodes referenced Scaling Debate with Clark Moody
Ethereum Centralization with StopandDecrypt

BCash checkpoint problems

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