Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Fees and the block-finding process

From: Peter Todd <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 15:01:30 +0000

On 17 August 2015 07:49:21 GMT-07:00, BitMinter operator via bitcoin-dev <[email-masked]> wrote:
>I don't think mining pools will immediately make blocks as big as
>possible if the hard limit is raised.

Note that XT includes a patch that sets the soft limit to be the same as the hard limit by default, so if miners did use the defaults "as big as possible" blocks would be produced.