Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] A Proposed Compromise to the Block Size Limit

From: Peter Todd <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 15:21:25 +0000

On 27 June 2015 10:39:51 GMT-04:00, Michael Naber <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Compromise: Can we agree that raising the block size to a static 8MB
>now
>with a plan to increase it further should demand necessitate except in
>the
>special case above is a reasonable path forward?

It's not a reasonable path forward right now given the lack of testing done with 8MB+ blocks, among many other problems. A way to help make that appear more reasonable would be to setup a 8MB testnet as I suggested, with two years or so of 8MB blocks in history as well as a large UTXO set to test performance characteristics.

Of course, that'll be a 840GB download - if that's unreasonable you might want to ask why 8MB blocks are reasonable...