Episode #2
The Block Size War, Issue One | Bitcoin Node Runner 002
Sep 8, 202632 minS1
<p>Episode two of the Bitcoin Node Runner podcast. PerkINsights and BitLovin work through the first of four issues at the center of The Block Size War, the book by Jonathan Bier about the fight over Bitcoin's base layer.</p><p>We start with a quick recap of the bridge analogy and the three participants in the Bitcoin protocol: developers as the architects, miners as the builders, and nodes as the inspectors. Then we get into issue one. Should Bitcoin blocks have surplus room in them, or should they stay consistently full?</p><p>Both sides of this argument came...
