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Did small blockers really win when SegWit2X was averted?

Yes.

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But did they really though?
We see blocks with 2MB size and above all the time in today's day and age.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @senf 19 Jan

Do you think that was an accident? Like Segwit proponents didn't know how it works?

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I think that in hindsight the witness discount was a mistake. In the past few years it had the unintended consequence of making data-encoding very cheap and increasing the rate of chain growth. This was not foreseen back in 2017.

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