The Block Size War, written for people who weren't there

We just published a long-form history of the 2015-2017 block size war: the scaling deadlock, the Hong Kong agreement, the AsicBoost accusation, the New York Agreement, BIP-148 and BIP-91, and how SegWit finally activated.

https://www.learnbitcoin.com/rabbit-hole/block-size-war

Plenty of you lived through this and know it better than any writeup. If something's off, say so and we'll fix it.