The Blocksize Wars were supposed to be over. They aren't.On this episode of Hell Money, Casey Rodarmor and Erin Redwing begin a new series on Bitcoin history by going back to the opening shots of the Blocksize Wars. We get into Satoshi’s 1 MB limit, the rise of Gavin Andresen, BIP-101, Bitcoin XT, the first big blocker/small blocker split, and the increasingly messy question of Bitcoin consensus.Erin also starts arriving at a dangerous conclusion: the big blockers may have been right about some of the problems. Casey explains why their proposed solution was still worse, and we argue about scarce block space, RBF, fee markets, full nodes, social consensus, institutional adoption, and why so many supposedly settled debates keep resurfacing in Ordinals and BIP-110.Get bonus content by subscribing to @hellmoneypod on X:https://x.com/hellmoneypod/creator-subscriptions/subscribeOr support the podcast by sending a BTC donation:bc1qztncp7lmcxdgude4px2vzh72p2yu2aud0eyzysORDINALS SHIRT:https://shop.inscribing.com/products/ordinals-protocol-shirtTIMESTAMPS0:00 The Blocksize Wars3:55 Bitcoin Prehistory: Satoshi's 1MB Block Size Limit6:15 Gavin Andresen: Satoshi's Chosen Successor8:29 Bitcoin Foundation, Greg Maxwell's Blockstream & the Handover to Wladimir9:36 BIP 101: Gavin Andresen's 8MB Hard Fork Proposal12:28 Peter Wuille's BIP 103: The Rejected Compromise14:22 Bitcoin XT: Mike Hearn & Gavin Andresen's Hard Fork Client16:15 Theymos Infinity Snaps r/Bitcoin20:28 BitPay, Circle, BitGo, & Other CEOs Back BIP 10122:01 Reading Satoshi's Tea Leaves28:25 Big Blocks vs Small Blocks: The Core Arguments29:11 RBF vs First Seen Safe: Peter Todd's Controversy34:08 The Highway Analogy: Fee Markets vs More Lanes39:15 Scaling Bitcoin Montreal 2015: Gavin vs One Meg Greg46:00 What If Big Blocks Won?49:45 Big Blockers vs Communists: Right Diagnosis, Wrong Cure53:30 Greg Maxwell vs Gavin Andresen: Open vs Private Discourse1:03:55 Economic Nodes vs Miners: Who Controls Bitcoin?1:07:50 What Is Bitcoin Consensus?