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bitcoinmagazine-com-5669		What Is The Bitcoin Block Size Limit? - Bitcoin Magazine: Bitcoin News, Articles, Charts, and Guides			.html	text/html	2753	200	73	Although Bitcoin launched without this parameter, Satoshi Nakamoto added a 1 megabyte block size limit back when he was still the lead developer of the project. As Bitcoin's user base grew, some believed it was time to increase or lift the block size limit entirely, specifically before Bitcoin blocks would start filling up with transactions. Will Bitcoin Core Developers Ever Increase the Block Size Limit? Bitcoin Core developers did indeed increase the block size limit, through the Segregated Witness (SegWit) protocol upgrade. Indeed, Bitcoin Core developers have not deployed a block size limit increase through a hard fork, which is a backwards-incompatible protocol upgrade. Therefore, they are unlikely to deploy a hard fork (for the block size limit or otherwise) without broad consensus throughout Bitcoin's user base for such a protocol upgrade. Roger Ver Is Still Determined to Increase the Bitcoin Block Size Limit via a Hard Fork	./cache/bitcoinmagazine-com-5669.html	./txt/bitcoinmagazine-com-5669.txt