> and that simultaneously raised the number of transactions allowed in a block so that more could be processed Source? I don't believe the hard limit in blocks

> and that simultaneously raised the number of transactions allowed in a block so that more could be processed Source? I don't believe the hard limit in blocks has ever been changed; bitcoin's devs are currently struggling to convince people to let them do it. The soft limit will NOT cause hard forks. The only reason that fork happened was an unknown limit that existed with one database in one version and which didn't exist with an improved database in another version. It was a bug. Here's an evaluation of the chainfork: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawiki https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...