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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Venzen Khaosan <venzen@mail•bihthai.net>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Block size increase oppositionists: please clearly define what you need done to increase block size to a static 8MB, and help do it
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:25:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150630162526.GA8479@savin.petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5592C0A3.8050008@mail.bihthai.net>

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On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:15:31PM +0700, Venzen Khaosan wrote:
> > Do what's best for Bitcoin and define what needs to get done to
> > agree to a simple block size increase to a static 8MB.
> 
> And this then leads back to the core issue: if an 8MB blocksize
> excludes many on this list from testnet, then the proposed 8MB blocks
> will exclude a lot of mainnet participants (miners) and degrade the
> quality of diversity and decentralization.
> 
> How about testing at double the capacity: 2MB?

Which of course raises another issue: if that was the plan, then all you
can do is double capacity, with no clear way to scaling beyond that.
Why bother?

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-30 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-30 15:34 Michael Naber
2015-06-30 16:03 ` Richard Moore
2015-06-30 16:15 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-06-30 16:25   ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-06-30 16:35     ` Michael Naber
2015-06-30 19:59       ` Bryan Cheng

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