SegWit2x

Because they added KYC.

I think it was also the Segwit2x thing at the time.

It was causing people to become emotional.

Can you see in the rear view mirror because of my arm here? Okay, that's good.

Actually, there were lots of proposals.

There was 101 that was saying, let's double the block size every two years.

But Segwit2x was eight megabytes, no? Yes, that

was

Even then, though, the argument wasn't over.

A separate plan called Segwit2x proposed doubling Bitcoin's block size after Segwit activated.

Several major Bitcoin companies and miners backed it, while large parts of the community opposed it.

Then, in November, just days before the planned change, Segwit2x was cancelled.

Now, this whole episode underscored something fundamental about how Bitcoin works.

Developers can write software, miners produce blocks, businesses decide which versions they support, users running nodes decide which rules their computers will accept.