There have been rumblings about one particular way Ethereum users might fight back against blockchain censorship. But it’s not exactly easy. gkaloudis writes for this week's Crypto Long & Short newsletter.
). Between August 2015 and November 2017, Bitcoin network participants were at war with themselves regarding the size limit of blocks in Bitcoin’s blockchain. While that seems innocuous on the surface, it was a hugely contentious technical debate that eventually led to the creation of an alternate version of Bitcoin calledAlthough the book isn’t mandatory reading for those with a cursory interest in Bitcoin, I still think it is a worthwhile read.
Miners and users run the same software , with a notable difference: Miners can mine blocks, users cannot. Bitcoin miners didn’t want SegWit and users did, for awe won’t get into here. Since things get activated on Bitcoin by signaling approval through mined blocks, SegWit wasn’t going to happen. But the users really wanted SegWit, so they took their “full nodes” , which each independently verifies that Bitcoin blockchain rules are enforced, and started enforcing SegWit.
The users were successful and their actions resulted in a soft fork of the Bitcoin protocol, hence UASF. But this column isn’t about Bitcoin’s UASF; it’s about how a proposed Ethereum UASF might potentially sidestep OFAC-wrought transaction censorship.
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