Bitcoin developer and Criphex CEO Eric Lombrozo explains the essence of the notorious “block size dabate”, commenting on what appears to be the most misleading points for the public.

In his interview to Epicenter Bitcoin, Lombroso stated that the necessity to increase the block size was never doubted by the majority of developers:

“As far as the block size itself, I don’t think there was much issue with bigger blocks. I don’t think many of the Core developers actually said, ‘No, we should never have bigger blocks.’ I think, for the most part, the idea of having bigger blocks is something that is appealing.”

He went on explaining that the actual debate was not on whether to increase the block size or not, but on whether it is acceptable to perform through a hard fork:

“It quickly became apparent that hard forks have very significant stability issues, they can potentially open up attack vectors, and it could be very dangerous for the network,” he said.

He subscribed to the opinion that the best way to solve the problem is implementing the SegWit, a model previously agreed upon by the Bitcoin Roundtable:

“With SegWit, we kind of get the best of both worlds. I mean yes, it’s not a single, constant change in the code – it does require a bit of modification to applications – but it’s not a very significant modification. And it’s much safer from all of the other aspects of it.”

Earlier an influential group of prominent bitcoin entrepreneurs wrote an open letter to inform the public that they support the idea of the increase, but as a matter of principal reject a hard fork and urge others to wait until Segregated Witness is released.