The reason the small-block attack succeeded in crippling bitcoin but the big-block attack failed was that Maxwell had the benefit of censorship and Craig Wright didn’t.

Censorship protects the incompetent. Open discussion exposes it. Thank you Roger for your tenacity and thank you mods for your discipline. I can't imagine how hard it must be sometimes.

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