📚 Readers' Friday Book Club Recap! This week, we explored Chapter 7: The Real Cost of Big Blocks from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson, revisiting one of Bitcoin's most influential scaling debates. Key takeaways from today's discussion: 🔸 Scaling is a trade-off. Every design decision affects decentralization, security, and usability. 🔸 Technology evolves. The chapter argues that storage and bandwidth costs continue to decline, making larger blocks more feasible over time. 🔸 Node accessibility matters. A key question remains: who should be able to run a full node, and what level of hardware should that require? 🔸 Ideas shape Bitcoin. The Blocksize Wars weren't just about megabytes, they reflected different visions for Bitcoin's future. 🔸 History still matters. Understanding these debates helps us better evaluate today's discussions around scaling, Lightning, and Bitcoin's long-term evolution. Whether you agreed with every argument or challenged them, the conversation reminded us why reading different perspectives makes us better Bitcoiners. 📖 Missed this session? Join us next Friday as we continue reading, asking better questions, and learning together. See you at the next Readers' Friday Book Club! ⚡🧡