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		crazypython on May 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Limits to Blockchain Scalability This is precisely what happened in 2017. Miners and exchanges unanimously supported increases Bitcoin's blocksize limit from 4MB to 8MB, in Segwit2x. However, users stopped them.

lawn on May 24, 2021 [–]

No, the miners did not fork away, so it's not at all like what's described here.

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