> Someone looked at the Bitcoin whitepaper and said, hey what if nodes required 256gb RAM and a Threadripper CPU because it’s not 2008 anymore. It's a very con

> Someone looked at the Bitcoin whitepaper and said, hey what if nodes required 256gb RAM and a Threadripper CPU because it’s not 2008 anymore. It's a very contentious issue in the Bitcoin world but Satoshi himself wrote code, that was commented out, showing that he envisioned bigger blocks at some point. Doubling the size of the blocks wouldn't have been an issue. And politics got in the way and shady deals were made: IIRC everybody agreed on adding "segwit" and 2x bigger blocks to Bitcoin. But as soon as Segwit was locked in, a majority said "oh after all screw you 2x bigger block, we're not doing that". They knew all along they'd act like snakes but first made sure enough people voted to lock segwit in. That's when Roger Ver (aka "Bitcoin Jesus", who owns the bitcoin.com domain) said "screw you guys, I'm doubling the size of the blocks like we all agreed to and like Satoshi envisioned" and the Bitcoin vs Bitcoin Cash fork happened. It's not as if Satoshi didn't plan for bigger blocks at some point: he had both code and comments on forums explaining that at some point the block size should grow. But politics got in the way and a little cabal of "faketoshis" made sure bigger blocks couldn't happen. P.S: Bitcoin Cash is a failure but, arguably, it is Satoshi's original vision, where blocks got bigger as machines got bigger.