Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote in his personal blog that the Bitcoin block size dispute is a one-sided capability trap.
When he personally experienced the Bitcoin block size dispute, he usually stood on the side of the big blockers because: 1) One of the key promises of Bitcoin was digital cash, and high fees could kill this use case; 2) He did not believe in the "meta-level" story of the small blockers; 3) The segregated witness scheme proposed by the small blockers aims to slightly increase the block size, which is too complicated and unnecessary compared to the simple hard fork block size increase; 4) The small blockers are indeed engaging in very uncool social media censorship to impose their views.
Among other things, he said, “Conflict should be reduced and technology should be enhanced. Moreover, the reason I care about examining the successes and failures of Bitcoin is not because I want to elevate Ethereum by disparaging Bitcoin; in fact, as someone who loves trying to understand social and political issues, I find that one of the characteristics of Bitcoin is that it is socially complex enough to provoke internal debates and divisions that are rich and fascinating enough to write two entire books. Instead, I care about analyzing these issues because Ethereum and other digital (and even physical) communities that I care about have a lot to learn from understanding what happened, what was done well, and what could be done better.”
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