I saw the vehement passion by which the byte-size conservatives argued, and found it perplexing. Little did I know that this debate over whether the limit should be 40 bytes versus 80 bytes would continue to snowball into a whole ideological sectarian rift in the Bitcoin community.
But what resulted in the intervening years has been infighting. In short, the Bitcoin community, since the so-called "Blocksize Wars," has seen fierce opposition between the pro-data people and the people who want Bitcoin to be a data-light form of digital gold.
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