Mike Belshe's recent article on Segwit2X continues to make waves and provoke online "fights" about the chronic issue of Bitcoin scaling. This time it was Jeff Garzik, Segwit2X project leader, who engaged in an intense conversation with a bitcoin fan of the opposite side.
Garzik retweeted Belshe's article, where the BitGo boss rejected "replay protection" as a misnomer in the Segwit2x context. A twitter user called "Andrea [No2x]", obviously hardly sympathetic to Garzik and co, replied that Segwit2X's hard fork plan should have been debated for a long time within the community and implemented only if it had secured consensus.
Jeff Garzik did not left that tweet without answer:
"The past 2 years has shown "keep base block size at 1M" does not and never had consensus", he noted.
Andrea replied back, saying: "If that was the case,then come up with a proposal that *does* have consensus. Until then we keep what we have, which is doing great BTW."
But Garzik was convinced that this does not work and remained silent, while the debate continued between Andrea and other users.
The past 2 years has shown "keep base block size at 1M" does not and never had consensus.
— Jeff Garzik (@jgarzik) October 19, 2017
Even the self-proclaimed Nakamoto, Craig Steven Wright, chimed in to submit his view as an "expert". The fact that Bitcoin community has reached... consensus that his claim as Satoshi Nakamoto is probably a lie, does not seem to bother him. On the contrary, Wright basically said that as a mathematician, economist and computer scientist, he has been "doing scaling tests empirically for years" but he now handed this job to BitcoinUnlimited project which is pro-Segwit2X