From: Justus Ranvier <justusranvier@riseup•net>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Block Size Increase
Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 14:53:48 +0200 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <CAL8tG=nu30RPgvHtz+uC+-+oi-Wf5OmSsQNYbngt4gaxsHHnyQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/09/2015 02:02 PM, Andrew wrote:
> The nice thing about 1 MB is that you can store ALL bitcoin
> transactions relevant to your lifetime (~100 years) on one 5 TB
> hard drive (1*6*24*365*100=5256000). Any regular person can run a
> full node and store this 5 TB hard drive easily at their home. With
> 10 MB blocks you need a 50 TB drive just for your bitcoin
> transactions! This is not doable for most regular people due to
> space and monetary constraints. Being able to review all
> transactions relevant to your lifetime is one of the key important
> properties of Bitcoin. How else can people audit the financial
> transactions of companies and governments that are using the
> Bitcoin blockchain? How else can we achieve this level of
> transparency that is essential to keeping corrupt
> governments/companies in check? How else can we keep track of our
> own personal transactions without relying on others to keep track
> of them for us? As time passes, storage technology may increase,
> but so may human life expectancy. So yes, in this sense, 1 MB just
> may be the magic number.
How many individuals and companies do you propose will ever use
Bitcoin (order of magnitude estimates are fine)
Whatever number you select above, please describe approximately how
many lifetime Bitcoin transactions each individual and company will be
capable of performing with a 1 MB block size limit.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-09 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-06 22:12 Matt Corallo
2015-05-06 22:30 ` slush
2015-05-06 23:06 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-05-06 22:44 ` Tier Nolan
2015-05-06 23:12 ` Matt Corallo
2015-05-06 23:33 ` Tier Nolan
2015-05-06 23:41 ` Matt Corallo
2015-05-07 2:16 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-06 23:11 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-05-06 23:13 ` Matt Corallo
2015-05-07 0:00 ` Tom Harding
2015-05-07 0:07 ` Bryan Bishop
2015-05-07 0:37 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-05-07 1:49 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-07 3:03 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-05-08 11:02 ` Thomas Zander
2015-05-08 20:17 ` Aaron Voisine
2015-05-07 3:47 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-05-07 9:25 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-07 10:12 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-07 10:42 ` Btc Drak
2015-05-07 10:52 ` Jorge Timón
2015-05-07 11:15 ` Andrew
2015-05-07 11:29 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-07 12:26 ` Jorge Timón
2015-05-07 14:05 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-07 14:18 ` Bryan Bishop
2015-05-07 14:22 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-07 14:40 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-07 14:52 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-05-07 14:56 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-07 15:04 ` Alex Morcos
2015-05-07 15:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-07 15:12 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-07 15:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-07 15:29 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-07 15:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-07 16:18 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-05-07 16:21 ` Jorge Timón
2015-05-07 17:29 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-07 19:37 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-07 19:44 ` Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
2015-05-07 20:20 ` Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
2015-05-07 15:58 ` Matthew Mitchell
2015-05-07 16:47 ` Matthew Mitchell
2015-05-07 17:26 ` Matt Corallo
[not found] ` <CABsx9T2vAQyZODRE9apu0R1n=LybssQcuTYD7P3mAQH_Fv6QCQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-07 17:40 ` [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: " Gavin Andresen
2015-05-07 17:43 ` [Bitcoin-development] " Mike Hearn
2015-05-07 18:03 ` Btc Drak
2015-05-07 18:06 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-07 18:21 ` Ross Nicoll
2015-05-07 18:40 ` Gavin Costin
2015-05-07 18:46 ` Btc Drak
2015-05-07 19:31 ` Bernard Rihn
2015-05-07 19:31 ` Alan Reiner
2015-05-07 19:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-07 19:59 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-05-08 1:40 ` Tom Harding
2015-05-08 2:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-08 5:13 ` Tom Harding
2015-05-08 9:43 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-08 15:23 ` Alan Reiner
2015-05-08 14:59 ` Alan Reiner
2015-05-08 15:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-13 10:37 ` Oliver Egginger
2015-05-13 11:25 ` Angel Leon
2015-05-08 17:17 ` Andrew
2015-05-08 17:51 ` Alan Reiner
[not found] ` <CADZB0_bK+YsK8sN-di2pynvjsq5VjSvnEu0-cCGhPqFunyVm7Q@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-09 12:02 ` Andrew
2015-05-09 12:53 ` Justus Ranvier [this message]
2015-05-09 18:33 ` Andrew
2015-05-08 1:51 ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2015-05-08 3:41 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-07 18:38 ` Chris Wardell
2015-05-07 18:55 ` Alex Mizrahi
2015-05-07 18:59 ` Ross Nicoll
2015-05-07 19:03 ` Matt Corallo
2015-05-07 19:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-07 19:34 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-07 21:29 ` Matt Corallo
2015-05-07 23:05 ` 21E14
2015-05-07 15:33 ` Jorge Timón
2015-05-07 16:11 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-07 16:47 ` Jorge Timón
2015-05-07 16:59 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-05-07 17:42 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-07 18:05 ` Jorge Timón
2015-05-07 19:57 ` Btc Drak
2015-05-07 15:39 ` Btc Drak
2015-05-07 13:02 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-07 19:14 ` Matt Corallo
2015-05-07 11:55 ` Dave Hudson
2015-05-07 13:40 ` Jorge Timón
2015-05-08 4:46 ` Tom Harding
2015-05-07 14:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-07 14:32 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-07 14:38 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-05-07 14:49 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-07 15:13 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-05-07 15:25 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-07 15:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-07 15:16 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-05-07 15:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-07 15:33 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-05-07 15:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-07 15:50 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-05-07 11:20 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-05-07 11:30 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-05-07 15:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-07 16:13 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-07 16:54 John Bodeen
2015-05-08 20:38 Raystonn .
2015-05-08 20:40 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-05-08 20:51 Raystonn
2015-05-08 20:55 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-05-08 21:01 Raystonn
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