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David R. Sterry
Personal blog · davidsterry.com/blogeconomicssystems
David R. Sterry writes David Sterry, a personal blog at davidsterry.com about economics and systems. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Arguments in the Bitcoin Block Size Debate”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Essays by David R. Sterry on the Bitcoin debate, including an arguments-in-the-Bitcoin-debate post and a follow-up on consensus. Commenters link it as a starting point for the forking and consensus discussion.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Arguments in the Bitcoin Block Size Debate4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-06-11
What Hacker News says?
I remember this being posted a few months ago, and thought it was pretty objective. http://davidsterry.com/blog/2015/06/arguments-in-the-bitcoin...
Comment linking /blog/2015/06/arguments-in-the-bitcoin-block-size-debate/
on “Why is Bitcoin forking?”Submitted Arguments in the Bitcoin Block Size Debate as a story · 46 points
HN discussionStart here: http://davidsterry.com/blog/2015/06/arguments-in-the-bitcoin... Also: https://tradeblock.com/blog/bitcoin-network-capacity-analysi... https://tradeblock.com/blog/bitcoin-network-capacity-analysi... https://tradeblock.com/blog/bitcoin-network-capacity-analysi... https://tradeblock.com/blog/bitcoin-network-capacity-analysi... https://tradeblock.com/blog/bitcoin-network-capacity-analysi... Hit me up if you…
Comment linking /blog/2015/06/arguments-in-the-bitcoin-block-size-debate/
on “The Blockchain Revolution Gets Endorsement in Wall Street Survey”Submitted Bitcoin Consensus – Why We Must Know the Answer Before Asking the Question as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPosted my reply here: https://davidsterry.com/blog/2020/09/on-difficult-free-softw...
Comment linking /blog/2020/09/on-difficult-free-software-maintanence/
on “It’s not free software if you can’t easily fork it (and how to fix it)”Submitted What Is Counterparty? – David R. Sterry's Blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is a follow-on to my previous article http://davidsterry.com/blog/2015/06/arguments-in-the-bitcoin... which failed to even contain the word consensus as helpfully pointed out by a reader.
Comment linking /blog/2015/06/arguments-in-the-bitcoin-block-size-debate/
on “Bitcoin Consensus – Why We Must Know the Answer Before Asking the Question”Submitted What Are Bitcoin Transaction Fees? as a story · 1 points
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