They bought our their Chinese manufacturers factory capacity for a week and ordered NOTHING to give the people who worked there vacations , and made them show what they did with the time . <| sep |> It ' s all part of pizzagate amirite <| sep |> This is not really trueYes , it is really true . Any person can run whatever software they want , including clients that allow a greater than 1 MB block size . Core devs cannot stop them . There is no amount of ' momentum ' that can force me or anyone else to run or not run any particular software . Even though Segwit has only been out for a few days , there are already 5 times more Segwit capable nodes than BU nodes . That means 5 times more node operators chose of their own free will to upgrade to the latest version of Bitcoin Core and not to run alternate versions that allow larger block sizes . Bitcoin Core did not ' centrally plan ' what software I run . I and others could choose to run BU if we wanted to . But we didn ' t , we chose to run Bitcoin Core with Segwit . Even if there were no alternate clients , and Core devs decided to raise the block size to 20 MB or whatever , they could not force node operators to upgrade to the new 20 MB block version . All we would have to do is nothing , and our nodes would continue running Bitcoin with 1 MB blocks . Core devs have no power to force node operators or miners to run the software they release .