From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Draft BIP : fixed-schedule block size increase
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:28:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150623192838.GG30235@muck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T2HegqOBqd1jijk1bZBE6N+NH8x6nfwbaoLBACVf8-WBQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 02:18:19PM -0400, Gavin Andresen wrote:
> ==Rationale==
>
> The initial size of 8,000,000 bytes was chosen after testing the current
> reference implementation code with larger block sizes and receiving
> feedback from miners stuck behind bandwidth-constrained networks (in
> particular, Chinese miners behind the Great Firewall of China).
>
> The doubling interval was chosen based on long-term growth trends for CPU
> power, storage, and Internet bandwidth. The 20-year limit was chosen
> because exponential growth cannot continue forever.
Wladimir noted that 'The original presented intention of block size
increase was a one-time "scaling" to grant time for more decentralizing
solutions to develop'
Comments?
In particular, if bandwidth scaling doesn't go according to your plan,
e.g. the exponential exponent is too large, perhaps due to technological
growth not keeping pace, or the political realities of actual bandwidth
deployment making theoretical technological growth irrelevant, what
mechanism will prevent centralization? (if any)
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-22 18:18 Gavin Andresen
2015-06-22 18:33 ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-22 18:46 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-22 19:10 ` Martin Schwarz
2015-06-22 19:28 ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-22 19:54 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-22 20:12 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-22 19:23 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-23 7:35 ` Ross Nicoll
2015-08-17 15:58 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-23 19:16 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-22 20:27 ` Kalle Rosenbaum
2015-06-22 20:46 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-22 20:51 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-22 21:52 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-23 19:28 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-06-23 20:12 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-23 20:26 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-06-23 20:50 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-24 6:14 ` grarpamp
2015-06-23 20:46 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-23 21:24 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-26 19:08 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-26 22:01 ` Ivan Brightly
2015-06-26 19:25 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-26 22:16 ` Simon Liu
2015-06-27 2:14 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-23 20:55 ` Roy Badami
2015-06-24 1:43 ` odinn
2015-06-24 3:05 ` William Madden
2015-06-24 3:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-24 13:06 ` Will
2015-06-24 13:44 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-25 0:32 ` Pindar Wong
2015-06-25 13:50 ` Gareth Williams
2015-06-25 14:07 ` Adam Back
2015-06-26 13:47 ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-26 15:13 ` Will
2015-06-26 17:39 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-26 19:07 ` Will
2015-07-01 22:49 ` odinn
2015-08-17 13:15 ` Tier Nolan
2015-08-17 13:18 ` Clément Elbaz
2015-08-19 3:45 ` odinn
2015-08-17 16:11 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-26 21:07 ` Carsten Otto
2015-06-22 19:32 Jean-Paul Kogelman
2015-06-22 20:43 ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-22 20:54 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-22 21:04 ` Stephen Morse
2015-06-22 21:32 ` Ross Nicoll
2015-08-17 15:54 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-22 21:21 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-22 21:39 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-06-22 21:48 ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-23 7:59 Ross Nicoll
2015-06-24 4:31 Raystonn
2015-06-24 17:05 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-24 17:24 ` Roy Badami
2015-06-24 17:23 Raystonn
2015-06-24 17:24 ` Allen Piscitello
2015-06-24 17:28 ` Roy Badami
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