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Re:Bitcoin Upgrade in November 2017 at Block 494,784 by nadaviv on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:10PM (#15033515)
> I still think this is a good thing. The Bitcoin Core developers have restricted the Bitcoin network for too long.

Restricted it how?

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Re:Bitcoin Upgrade in November 2017 at Block 494,784 by r1ch on Thursday August 17, 2017 @11:01AM (#15037369)
By not doing enough to increase network throughput. We could have had a 2-8MB fork years ago and not had to worry with the transaction backlogs caused by the 1MB block limit we're now stuck with.
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