Bitcoin’s Data Limit Debate Ignites Another Civil War—Sound Familiar?

Bitcoin’s latest protocol squabble over looser block-size constraints echoes the toxic Ordinals rift—except this time, institutional money is watching. Core devs are split between censorship-resistant purity and the cold pragmatism of scaling. Meanwhile, Wall Street quietly loads up on popcorn futures.

Subheader: The Ghost of Blockstream Past

Purists scream ’slippery slope’ as proposals to expand data capacity gain traction—sound familiar? The same ideological fault lines that fractured the community over Ordinals now threaten to derail what little roadmap cohesion remains. Lightning Network loyalists whisper about a coup.

Subheader: VCs vs. Cypherpunks, Round 47

Silicon Valley-backed miners push for throughput boosts to justify their ASIC farms, while OG Bitcoiners dust off their ’No SegWit2x’ protest signs. The real winner? Ethereum—whose devs somehow keep shipping between coffee breaks and meme wars.

Closing jab: At least this circus makes traditional finance’s obsession with 2% yield curves look almost sophisticated.