Can't BTC just increase its block size once it sees that BCH is catching up?

• bips

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Since it was a required upgrade anyway: any needed changes could be done more cleanly with at hard-forking change instead. This is the strategy that Bitcoin Cash used. Bitcoin Cash implemented the Segwit quadratic hashing fix as "replay protection". That means that technically: it safer to raise the blocksize on BCH when compared to to BTC. The quadratic hashing transactions (read: denial of service) transactions are still allowed on the BTC chain, but prohibited on the BCH chain.

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