Explains: Miners, Nodes, and the War That Settled Everything
Bitcoin Well Podcast
- Published
- April 9, 2026
- Duration
- 13:04
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Apr 17, 2026
Discusses education, news, politics, society, culture.
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Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Explains: Nodes and Governance In 2017, the biggest mining pools, major exchanges, and venture capital firms signed an agreement to change Bitcoin's rules by force. They controlled over 80% of the network's computing power. They lost. Completely. Embarrassingly. This is the story of the Blocksize War — and the quiet, underapp…
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Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Explains: Nodes and Governance In 2017, the biggest mining pools, major exchanges, and venture capital firms signed an agreement to change Bitcoin's rules by force. They controlled over 80% of the network's computing power. They lost. Completely. Embarrassingly. This is the story of the Blocksize War — and the quiet, underappreciated participants who won it: the node operators. In this video you'll learn: What Bitcoin nodes actually are and why they matter Why miner
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