Great description of .. in 2017 essentially miners tried to control Bitcoin.

If you think 50 people can change Bitcoin, now would be a very good time for you to read The Blocksize War

The Blocksize War by @jonathanbier Read this book.

The blocksize war by @BitMEXResearch 11/10, will read again. Best Bitcoin history lesson.

i recommend to read the block size war by jonathan bier (@bitmexresearch) to get up to speed.

I recommend that folks interested in Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency space read The Blocksize War, which is a 2021 book that chronicles the history of the Bitcoin network as different factions struggled with each other to shape the design of the protocol, and to see who had the power (developers, corporate miners/exchanges, or individual users/nodes).

This is an incredible book on the soul of bitcoin.

...I recommend that folks interested in Bitcoin and the broader crypto space read The Blocksize War..

I recommend reading

The “New York Agreement” is a very important piece of Bitcoin history. Proof that users could repel a serious corporate attack on the network. Always good to re-read the original declaration, and then The Blocksize War’s reflection on the matter: