The fork was the result of the Core developers refusing to increase the block size and insisting on implementing changes that a lot of people disagreed with (Segwit). The takeover was already complete by that point. They could not destroy Bitcoin so they made it useless for its intended purpose and made sure it could never scale to support the whole world. Segwit was necessary to support the Lightning Network, which is just a secondary banking layer that acts as a parasite to the miners (LN fees go to node operators, not miners). If not for the fork, Bitcoin would have been permanently altered with no way to undo the changes later. At first they promised to increase the block size as well, but afterward reneged on that promise. That was the point which Roger lost faith and began supporting Bitcoin Cash.
The fork was the result of the Core developers refusing to increase the block size and insisting on implementing changes that a lot of people disagreed with (Segwit). The takeover was already complete by that point. They could not destroy Bitcoin so they made it useless for its intended purpose and made sure it could never scale to support the whole world. Segwit was necessary to support the Lightning Network, which is just a secondary banking layer that acts as a parasite to the miners (LN fees go to node operators, not miners). If not for the fork, Bitcoin would have been permanently altered with no way to undo the changes later. At first they promised to increase the block size as well, but afterward reneged on that promise. That was the point which Roger lost faith and began supporting Bitcoin Cash.
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