Some reflections on the Bitcoin block size war

This long-form reflection, written by an author who says he was a "big blocker" during the Bitcoin block size war, compares Jonathan Bier's "The Blocksize War" with Roger Ver and Steve Patterson's "Hijacking Bitcoin" and then gives his own assessment. Bier's account frames the small-block side as defending user control and decentralization against miner and exchange cabals, such as the 2017 New York Agreement. Ver's account frames the big-block side as defending on-chain affordability against self-appointed developers and Blockstream. The author sympathizes with big blockers on Lightning's untested viability and the governance argument, while faulting them for lacking a realistic limiting principle for block size.