Vitalik Buterin reflects on the Bitcoin block size war
Vitalik Buterin, one of the creators of Ethereum, has pondered about the Bitcoin block size conflicts that occurred between 2015 and 2017. These conflicts were centered on the goal of increasing Bitcoin’s block size limit from 1 MB in order to accommodate a greater number of transactions, lower costs, and improve its effectiveness as a payment system. At first, he backed the “big blockers” faction, which advocated for bigger blocks