One of the most uncertain times during Bitcoin’s history was the so-called block size war , where the technical debate over how the network should scale to more users, among other disagreements, led to worries over whether the system would be able to resist protocol changes in the face of mounting pressure from large, corporate interests that had been building on top of it.

In the end, a multi-layer approach to scaling that retains a high degree of decentralization at the base layer was the Schelling point where users landed. And with today’s relatively low level of activity taking place at the base blockchain layer , it’s somewhat unclear what all the fuss was about.

Now, there is another technical disagreement among Bitcoin users in terms of how the system

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