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0 pointskinakomochidayo5y ago0 comments

Well, Bitcoin design WAS well thought out, until Blockstream nerfed it, and pushed its own product, Lightning Network.

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That’s a myth. Blocksize limit increase was rejected by all parties relevant to bitcoin: miners, developers, users, and merchants.

Blockstream has no control over bitcoin protocol. They built a product on top of it and there isn’t anything in bitcoin that prevents you from building a competing product.

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keymone5y ago

That’s a myth. Blocksize limit increase was rejected by all parties relevant to bitcoin: miners, developers, users, and merchants.

Blockstream has no control over bitcoin protocol. They built a product on top of it and there isn’t anything in bitcoin that prevents you from building a competing product.

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