The Bitcoin scalability issue has polarized the community into those who support the increase in block size, and those who don’t. Things between these two camps often leads to ugly debates on social media platforms.
The Bitcoin subreddit on renowned Reddit social platform continues to be one of the important platforms to host these debates.
The Bitcoin subreddit on renowned Reddit social platform continues to be one of the important platforms to host these debates.
Wrong.
There are not only 2 positions. I support a 3rd option: increase the Witness blocksize. There are probably more positions on the matter out there, if the journalists who wrote this lazy piece got up off their asses to actually research their so-called work (I still can't believe that so many "news" sites actually pay writers to provide such poor information).
Created as a discussion forum for all the bitcoin users, the subreddit is now being accused for turning into a propaganda machine for promoting Bitcoin Core, and opposing block size proposal. Many prominent people from the Bitcoin community, including Roger Ver, have spoken on multiple occasions against the censorship policies of the moderators...
Uh, Bitcoin Core is Bitcoin, so if r/bitcoin isn't promoting it, I don't know what else they should do. If anyone thinks they've got a good idea about Bitcoin development, they can code it up themselves. The BigBlocks people have done that, more than once: rejected by the development community.
And of course, Big Blocks has got nothing to do with any scalability issues, the real point of this faux debate is to take control of Bitcoin away from those developers that are committed to cryptographically assured sound-money. That's the hidden detail in the entire debate; if we switch to BigBlocks, we're really replacing the current main team (Pieter Wuille, Wladimir van der Laan, Greg Maxwell etc) with the Goldman Sachs backed team (Gavin Andresen, Jeff Garzik etc). The blocksize isn't going to matter at all if that happens.
