# Explains: Miners, Nodes, and the War That Settled Everything

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Published: 2026-04-09T14:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin Well Explains: Nodes and Governance In 2017, the biggest mining pools, major exchanges, and venture capital firms signed an agreement to change Bitcoin's rules by force. They controlled over 80% of the network's computing power. They lost. Completely. Embarrassingly. This is the story of the Blocksize War — and the quiet, underappreciated participants who won it: the node operators. In this video you'll learn: What Bitcoin nodes actually are and why they matter Why miners propose but nodes dispose How anyone can run a node on a $100 Raspberry Pi Why Satoshi deliberately kept blocks small What happened at the New York Agreement How UASF — the User Activated Soft Fork — defeated a corporate takeover Why Bitcoin Cash lost 99% of its value against Bitcoin How Bitcoin's three-way balance of power makes it ungovernable by any single group No boardroom can rewrite Bitcoin's rules. The Blocksize War proved it. Chapters: 0:00 – Intro: Welcome & schedule update 0:54 – The Adam O'Brien Show announcement 1:38 – Today's topic: Bitcoin governance & the Block Size Wars 2:02 – Can miners rewrite Bitcoin's rules? 2:52 – Meet the node operators: Bitcoin's unsung referees 3:29 – How nodes actually work: The validation process 4:25 – Who runs nodes? And why accessibility matters 5:48 – Who writes the software? Bitcoin's open-source developers 6:36 – Why Bitcoin is designed to change slowly 7:21 – 2017: The network gets congested and the corporate side mobilizes 8:00 – The New York Agreement: An 80% power grab 8:31 – The nodes push back: UASF explained 10:32 – August 1st: The corporations blink 10:41 – Bitcoin Cash: The aftermath 11:32 – What the Block Size War proved 12:14 – What's next: Wallets, Keys, and Seeds Bitcoin #BlocksizeWar #BitcoinNodes #BitcoinHistory…

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