block-size-war

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Event July 27, 2026 Added July 27, 2026 Updated July 30, 2026 Currency

Bitcoin Cash: no founder, an inherited cap, and two splits in three years

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Amaury Séchet

Bitcoin Cash inherited Bitcoin's ledger and 21 million cap at the 2017 fork, then split twice more under implementation teams with no single founder to arbitrate.

Event November 1, 2014 Added June 23, 2026 Updated August 6, 2026 Analysis

Did Blockstream control Bitcoin? — the block-size war's biggest 'centralization' charge

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Gregory Maxwell, Adam Back, Pieter Wuille, Mike Hearn, Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Gavin Andresen, Satoshi Nakamoto

Weighing the 'Blockstream controls Bitcoin' charge against the documentary record: where it comes from, and how each link in the chain holds up.

Event August 15, 2015 Added June 2, 2026 Updated July 29, 2026 Analysis

The block-size war (2015–2017) — Bitcoin XT, BIP148, the New York Agreement, and the Bitcoin Cash fork

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Mike Hearn, Gavin Andresen, Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Amaury Séchet, Mike Belshe

Cross-cutting reading of Bitcoin's 2015–2017 block-size war by phase, faction, and turning point: Bitcoin XT, BIP148 UASF, the New York Agreement, Bitcoin Cash, SegWit2x cancellation.

Event August 15, 2015 Added May 9, 2026 Updated July 29, 2026 Analysis

Why Bitcoin's fork wars were not OSS fork wars — the vacuum Satoshi left, the money on top, and the three layers that bind

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Mike Hearn, Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan, Peter Todd, Gregory Maxwell, Adam Back, Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Mike Belshe, Vitalik Buterin, Daniel Larimer, Satoshi Nakamoto

Why Bitcoin's 2015-2017 fork wars ran as identity contests, not OSS disputes: the post-2011 authority vacuum, the economic weight on rule choices, and the three layers that bound code to currency.

Event October 31, 2008 Added May 6, 2026 Updated July 30, 2026 Analysis

Bitcoin's family tree: forks, altcoins, and the mainline Bitcoin that endured

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Mike Hearn, Gavin Andresen, Amaury Séchet, Craig Wright, Jihan Wu, Mike Belshe, Roger Ver, Vitalik Buterin

Genealogy of every Bitcoin protocol fork that left a separate chain alive (Bitcoin Cash, SV, Gold) and the adjacent cryptocurrencies derived from Bitcoin (Namecoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin).

Event August 15, 2015 Added May 6, 2026 Updated August 11, 2026 Article

Bitcoin XT launches the block-size war — Hearn and Andresen propose 8 MB blocks (August 2015)

Mike Hearn ↔ Gavin Andresen

Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen released Bitcoin XT 0.11A, a Bitcoin Core fork implementing BIP 101 — 8 MB blocks doubling every two years. The launch opened the public phase of the block-size war.

Event August 1, 2017 Added May 6, 2026 Updated July 27, 2026 Article

Bitcoin Cash splits at block 478558 — the block-size war's first surviving fork (August 2017)

Bitcoin ABC project ↔ Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Amaury Séchet

Bitcoin Cash forked from Bitcoin at block 478558, mined by ViaBTC around 12:37 UTC. The 8 MB, no-SegWit chain became the first protocol fork to leave a lasting separate network.

Event November 8, 2017 Added May 6, 2026 Updated July 26, 2026 Mailing List

SegWit2x cancelled about a week before activation — Mike Belshe ends the New York Agreement (November 2017)

Mike Belshe

Mike Belshe suspended the SegWit2x hard fork on the mailing list, about a week before the planned 2 MB activation at block 494784. The New York Agreement collapsed without a chain split.