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From: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink•com>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] A compromise between BIP101 and Pieter's proposal
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 16:57:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55BD5CE4.80703@thinlink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBhFYJudy+m8+FqxTczj6W8Uc1pH1BsOqP0kgxmv-FMW0w@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/1/2015 1:45 PM, Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>
> Regarding "reasonable", I have a theory. What if we would have had 8
> MB blocks from the start? My guess is that some more people would have
> decided to run their high-transaction-rate use cases on chain, that
> we'd regularly see 4-6 MB blocks,

You've proposed scaling the cap based on technology growth.  There's
still a cap to stop bad things from happening.

Once that is done, why worry so much about whether the uses are
efficient?  Let people work in the space created.  Let them figure out
how to make good things happen in the application space.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-01 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-31  8:39 jl2012
2015-07-31 10:16 ` Adam Back
2015-07-31 13:07   ` jl2012
2015-07-31 13:17     ` Adam Back
2015-07-31 16:22       ` Dave Scotese
2015-07-31 18:04         ` G. Andrew Stone
2015-07-31 13:12   ` Ivan Brightly
2015-08-01 20:45 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-01 23:57   ` Tom Harding [this message]
2015-08-02  7:16   ` jl2012
2015-08-02  8:03     ` odinn
2015-08-02 10:32     ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-02 10:38       ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-08-02 22:07         ` Dave Scotese

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