Bitcoin Under Political Attack – Contentious Fork Segwit2x on 16th November
I have so many questions here:<p>a. I was under the impression it was Satoshi who had put in the 1 MB size limit. This is the first attempt to increase the size. But then the article says:<p>&quot;Until now, Bitcoin has been operating by simply increasing the block size whenever bitcoin needs to scale.  This allows more transactions to process in a single block.&quot;<p>These size increases were under which BIPs?<p>b. &quot;....to firing current bitcoin developers and taking over bitcoin development&quot;<p>My understanding is the decentralized nature of bitcoin and the consensus mechanism meant no one can actually be fired. The worst case scenario is that I am stopped from accessing the bitcoin-core code repo but I can still rally people to take up my changes and vote (consensus) on it.<p>d. &quot;Inspite of this, Segwit2x people kept pushing the hard fork on the community just to fulfill their agreement as they have the mining power support.&quot;<p>Wasn&#x27;t that the whole point of bitcoin? Miners are needed to do most of the heavy lifting which means they have a say in what direction bitcoin goes.<p>Additionally, what is the mechanism to show the non-mining support for any of the changes?<p>c. Any links which show there is support for the current chain?